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18 Cards in this Set
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efficacy
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efficiency; effectiveness
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efficacious
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effectiveness
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facilitate
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to make less difficult
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gullible
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easily deceived
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hyperbole
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purposeful exaggeration for effect
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impair
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to damage; injure
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irascible
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easily angered
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laud
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to praise
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malleable
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capable of being shaped by pounding; impressionable
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maverick
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dissenter
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ostentatious
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showy; trying to attract attention; pretentious
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paucity
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scarcity
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proscribe
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to condemb; forbid; outlaw
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proscriptive
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relating to prohibition
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quiescent
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inactive; still
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quiescence
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(n) inactive; still
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recant
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to retract a statement or opinion
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sanction
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to approve; ratify; permit
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