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17 Cards in this Set
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approbation
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praise; approval
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attenuate
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to weaken
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audacious
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bold; daring
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burgeon
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to flourish
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chicanery
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trickery; fraud
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derivative
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something derived; unoriginal
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derive
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obtained from another source
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disingenuous
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not candid; crafty
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empirical
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derived from observation or experiment
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empiricism
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the view that experience is the only source of knowledge; the employment of empirical methods, as in science
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erudite
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learned; scholary
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exigency
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crisis; urgent requirements
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felicitous
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suitably expressed; appropriate; well-chosen
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grandiloquent
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pompous; bombastic
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innocuous
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harmless
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inured
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hardened; accustomed; used to
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loquacious
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talkative
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