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46 Cards in this Set
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Traduce |
Harm reputation with lies |
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Insuperable |
Not able to be overcome |
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Surfeit |
To fill to excess; Gorge |
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Recapitulate |
to summarize briefly |
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Interecine |
causing many deaths on all side of conflict |
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Artifice |
Cleverly, Trickery, and/or deception |
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Inert |
slow to act |
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Salubrious |
promote good health |
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Solace |
Comfort/ Consolation |
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Contingent |
Possible, Conditional |
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Amoral |
Not concerned about mortality |
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Moratorium |
formal delay / suspension |
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Context |
Circumstances or setting of an event |
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Inimitable |
impossible to copy |
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Perpetuity |
time period lasting through the ages |
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Expiate |
Make up for wrong doing |
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Obsequious |
to willing to obey or serve |
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Soccur |
Badly needed help (aid) |
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Subtext |
Hidden or underlying message |
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Pusillanimous |
Timid/cowardly |
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Egregious |
Standing out sharply as wrong or bad |
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Sojourn |
A short stay or visit |
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Incite |
To stir up (provoke) |
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Innocuous |
not causing harm or injury |
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Idyllic |
Simple, Pleasant |
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Cryptic |
Hard to understand |
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Agarian |
Having to do with farming |
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Hyperbole |
Exaggeration for effect |
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Repast |
a meal |
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Emblematic |
Standing for another thing |
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Cognate |
Coming from the same source |
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Celerity |
Speed |
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Vehement |
Strongly Emotional |
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Cogent |
Convincing strongly to the point |
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Nascent |
Act of being born growing |
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Dystopian |
Nightmarish |
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Utopian |
Model Ideal nature |
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Epithet |
A phrase or term that describes something or someone |
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Allocate |
Set aside, special purpose |
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Colloquy |
Formal convo |
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Loquacioius |
very talkative |
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resignation |
acceptance of something that can't be avoided |
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ascribe |
to think of as belonging or coming from |
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consign |
to deliver to negative fate or outcome |
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Proscribe |
to forbid/ outlaw |
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Obloquy |
Harsh Criticism |