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30 Cards in this Set
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dire
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having terrible consequences; urgent; desperate
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dilated
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swelled, distended, expanded, widened
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disconsolate
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extremely dejected, gloomy, cheerless
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discomfiture
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frustration or dissapointment; lack of ease, perplexity and embarassment
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dilatory
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tending to postpone or delay
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didactic
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intended to instruct, morally instructive
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discourse
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conversation
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disdainfully
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scornfully and contemptuously
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disparagement
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something that discredits or belittles
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dissembling
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disguising, making a false show
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dissipate
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to drive away, disperse, to scatter, disperse
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disheveled
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unkempt hair or clothing, untidy
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dissipation
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the act of dispersing
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discursive
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covering a wide variety of subjects
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dolefully
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mournfully
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distraught
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deeply agitated
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dissolution
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dissolving, disintegration, termination
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divergent
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departing from convention, differing from another
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divination
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prophecy, foretelling of the future through cultic means
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dungarees
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jeans
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doughty
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valiant, brave
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elicit
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to draw forth, evoke
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eclat
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acclamation, great brilliance
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efficacy
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effectiveness, power to produce a desired result
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ebb
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period of decline, verb. to recede
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ectoplasm
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part of a cell
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efface
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wipe out, erase
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effrontery
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boldness, presumptuousness
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effluvium
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odorous fumes
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egress
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an exit, a way out, right to leave
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