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49 Cards in this Set
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Abject
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Miserbable, wretched, poor-spirited
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Abscond
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To run away and hide, to flee, especially from the law
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acrid
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sharp, bitter, stinging to the taste or smell, bitterly pungent
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aesthetic
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pertaining to art or beautry, artistic; dealing with or capable of appreciation of the beautiful
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alluvial
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pertaining to silt, sand or clay deposited by flowing water, especially along a river bed
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Anathema
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Solemn curse; a thing or person accursed, anything greatly detested, a formal curse excommunicating someone from a church
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Austere
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stern, sever, harsh, lacking ornament
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Calyx
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the outer covering at the base of a flower, including the sepals
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circumspect
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cautious, prudent, careful
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complaisant
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obliging, wishing to please, amiable; self-satisfied
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coterie
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a small select group; a social set, clique; group that meets socially; select circle
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dichotomy
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a division into two parts or opinions; branching into two parts
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dormant
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asleep or acting as if asleep, latent; sleeping; lethargic; torpid
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ellicit
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to draw forth, to evoke; draw out by discussion
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ennul
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boredom, weariness born of dissatisfaction or inacvitity
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billious
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sour, bad tempered, crabbed
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docile
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obedient, manageable, unresisting
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captious
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quibbling, sophistical, carping, fault-finding
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fatuous
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silly, complacently foolish
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furtive
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sly, stealthy, shifty, clandestine
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disdain
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despise, abhor, consider unworthy
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harangue
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noisy, pompous speech
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harbinger
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sign, foreteller, presager
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portentous
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foretelling, presaging, prodigous with news
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contumely
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scorn, contempt, insolence
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equinimity
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calmness of temprament; evenness of temper, composure
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exacerbate
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to aggravate, to make more intense or sharp; worsen; embitter
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expurgate
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to remove or cleanse, particularly to remove objectionable passages from written material; clean; remove offensive parts from a book
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fallacious
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misleading; based on error, faulty, misleading
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fickle
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changeable; faithless; changeable in affection, unstable, capricious
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forensic
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belonging to or suitable for a court of law or public debate
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gamut
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the entire range or extent of something; in music, the complete scale
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guerilla
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partaining to warefare carned on by small or isolated groups of volunteer or irregular soldiers
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heterogeneous
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dissimilar; composed of differing parts or elements, unlike in structure or quality
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hypochondriac
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a person who imagines that he is ill, one who habitually exaggerates his complaints; person unduly worried about his health; worrier without cause about illness
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impecunious
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without money, poor, habitually poor
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imputation
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the act of attributing or ascribing something to another, especially a crime or a fault
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incubus
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a spirit of demon thought in medieval times to descend on sleeping women, antyhing that is an oppressive or nightmarish burden; burdenl mental care; nightmare
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infamy
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very bad reputation, disgrace, notoriety, dishonor
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deleterious
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bad, harmful, injurious
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affront
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insulted, offended, was offensive when face to face
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embroil
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entangle, involve, implicate
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eschew
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stay away from, shun, abstain from
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facile
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easliy influenced, complaisant; easily done, moving easily or quickly
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knowing, field of knowledge, cognizance
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impasse
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standstill, deadlock, an insolible difficulty
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importune
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insistently begged, persistently urged
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impute
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charge, attribute, ascribe to another
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insipid
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tasteless; dull
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