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Front 1

claque

Back 1

1. A group hired to applaud at a performance.
2. A group of fawning admirers.

Front 2

cosset

Back 2

To treat as a pet; to treat with excessive indulgence; to pamper.

Front 3

aver

Back 3

transitive verb;
1. To affirm with confidence; to declare in a positive manner, as in confidence of asserting the truth.
2. (Law) To assert, claim, or declare as a fact.

Front 4

labile

Back 4

adjective:
1. Open to change; apt or likely to change; adaptable.
2. Constantly or readily undergoing chemical, physical, or biological change or breakdown; unstable.

Front 5

jape

Back 5

intransitive verb:
To joke; to jest.

transitive verb:
To make fun of; to mock.

noun:
1. A joke or jest.
2. A trick or prank.

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cloy

Back 6

transitive verb:
To weary by excess, especially of sweetness, richness, pleasure, etc.

intransitive verb:
To become distasteful through an excess usually of something originally pleasing.

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Panglossian

Back 7

adjective:
Excessively or naively optimistic.

Front 8

hagiography

Back 8

noun:
1. Biography of saints.
2. Idealizing or idolizing biography.

Front 9

extant

Back 9

adjective:
Still existing; not destroyed, lost, or extinct.

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fettle

Back 10

noun:
A state or condition of fitness or order; state of mind; spirits -- often used in the phrase "in fine fettle."