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29 Cards in this Set
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Aver
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to state positively; declare
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Egregious
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outstandingly bad; noticeable flagrant
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Fervor
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great warmth and intensity of feeling; passion
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Facile
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Carried out with little effort; easy
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Glutton
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Someone who eats immoderately; over eater
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Fiasco
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a total failure
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Pastiche
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stylistic imitation
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Clandestine
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done of kept in secret; hidden
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Extraneous
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Coming from the outside; foreign; lacks necessity
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Extol
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to praise highly
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Meddle
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to intrude into other people's business or affairs
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Guile
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Crafty cunning; deceitfulness
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Furtive
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made, done, or acting in secret
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Blatant
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Unpleasantly and often vulgarly loud; obvious
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Innocuous
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Having no ill effect; harmless
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Taciturn
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uncommunitative
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Verbosity
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Using more words than required; wordiness
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Indolent
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disinclined to exert oneself; lazy
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Respite
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A short period of rest of relief; temporary suspension
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Avarice
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greedy desire for wealth
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Banal
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lacking freshness; not original
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Relegate
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To assign to a less desirable place
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Vernacular
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normal spoken language of a country or region
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Capitulate
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To surrender under conditional terms
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Dogmatic
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Lacks flexibility; unproved principles
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Caustic
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capable of corroding, burning, or dissolving
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Esoteric
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meant for or understood by a small group
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Stringent
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rigorously exacting; strict
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Lenient
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inclined to be forgiving and mild; merciful
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