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20 Cards in this Set
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amenity
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pleasent or agreeable, attractive features or customs
unpleasantness, disagreeables |
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aperture
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an opening, gap
closure, blockade |
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dissidence
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a difference in opinon
dissent, disagreement harmony |
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epicuraean
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devoted to the pusuit of pleasure, a person with discriminating tastes
discriminating ascetic, self-denying |
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improvident
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failing to plan ahead
extravagent thrify, cautious |
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iniquity
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wickedness, sin
evil, crime rectitude, uprightness, probity |
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inviolable
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sacred, cannot be broken
sacrosanct vulnerable |
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mutable
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open or capeable of change, fickle
changeable, variable changless, steadfast, constant |
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nascent
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just beggining to exist or develop, having just come into existence
budding, embryonic dying |
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obeisance
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a deep bow indicating respect, submission, homage
respect, honor disrespect |
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panegyric
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formal or elaborate praise, a tribute
tribute tirade, philippic |
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pillory
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to expose to public contempt or ridicule, or a device that does this
praise, extol |
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pittance
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a woefully meager allowance, wage or porportion
trifle fortune |
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pressage
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a warning or indication of the future
foretell |
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progeny
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descendants, children, followers
issue, posterity ancestors |
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promulgate
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to proclaim or issue officially, to make known far and wide
announce withdraw, retract |
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rectitude
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uprightness, righteousness, correctness
probity, integrity iniquity, heinousness |
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restive
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restless, hard to manage, balky
uneasy, fidgety, recalcitrant serene, unruffled, docile |
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seraphic
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angelic, heavenly, celestial
cherubic devilish, impish |
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subsist
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to remain alive, to persist or continue
last, survive, sustain |
