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15 Cards in this Set
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garner
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to gather and store in or as if in a granary, to amass, acquire
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embellish
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to make beautiful, as by ornamentation, decorate, to add ornamental or fictitious details to
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jettison
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to cast overboard or off, to discard (something) as unwanted or burdensome
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allege
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to assert to be true, affirm, to assert without or before proof, to state (a plea or excuse, for example) in support or denail of a claim or accusation
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exacerbate
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to increase the severity, violence, or bitterness of, aggravate
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conciliate
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to overcome the distrust or animosity of, appease, to regain or try to regain (friendship or goodwill) by pleasant behavior, to make or attempt to make compatible, reconcile; to gain or try to gain someone's friendship or goodwill
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recant
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to make a formal retraction or disavowal of (a statement or belief to which one has previously committed onself), to make a formal retraction or disavowal of a previously held statement or belief
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raze
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to level to the ground, demolish, to scrape or shave off
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portend
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to serve as an omen or a warning of, presage, to indicate by prediction, forecast
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slough
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to be cast off or shed, come off, to shed a slough, to discard as undesirable or unfavorable, get rid of
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calumniate
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to make maliciously or knowingly false statements about
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proffer
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to offer for acceptance, tender
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vacillate
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to sway from one side to the other, oscillate, to swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another, hesitate
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decimate
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to destroy or kill a large part of (a group), to inflict great destruction or damage on, to reduce markedly in amount, to select by lot and kill one in every ten of
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presage
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to indicate or warn of in advance, portend, to have a presentiment of, to foretell or predict, to make or utter a prediction
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