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30 Cards in this Set
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edifice
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building, esp a large massive structure
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discerning
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showing insight and understanding
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insidious
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treacherous, harmful but enticing
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gesticulation
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the act of making gestures
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ignominy
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deep personal humiliation and disgrace
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inauspicious
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unfavorable
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venerable
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deserving to be regarded with reverential respect or admiring deference
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magistrate
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an official entrusted with administration of the laws
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iniquity
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wickedness (wicked act or thing)
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visage
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the face, countenance, appearance of a person
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abstruse
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hard or difficult to understand
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appellation
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identifying by a name or title
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deleterious
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causing moral or physical injury; harmful
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importunate
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persistent in pressing demands or requests
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latent
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to lie hidden
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propensity
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often intense natural inclination or preference
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efficacy
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power to produce an effect
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stigmatized
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to identify in opprobrious terms (brings disgrace)
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capricious
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whimsical; governed by a sudden change of action or mind w/out adequate reason
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discern
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to detect visually; to detect w/ senses other than vision, to comprehend visually
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uncouth
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not known or not familiar to one; rare
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accost
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to approach and speak to boldly and aggressively- as with a demand
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effervescence
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the showing of high spirits or excitement
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vex
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to bring trouble, distress, worry to
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loquacity
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very talkative, garrulous
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satiate
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to satisfy fully
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probity
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complete and confirmed integrity
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vehemently
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vigorous, energetic
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surmise
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to infer without sufficient evidence
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obscure
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indistinctly perceived
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