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23 Cards in this Set
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Alleviate
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To ease a pain or burden
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Alleve
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Asylum
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A place of retreat or safety
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insane asylum
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Auspicious
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Attained by favoravle circumstances
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a........c
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Benign
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Kind and gentle
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tumor
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Capricious
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impulsive and unpredictable
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Isle of Capri
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Debunk
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To expose the falseness of something
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debunk katie
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Deleterious
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having a harmful effect
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delete
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Disdain
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to regard or treat with contempt
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Disingenuous
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not straight forward, crafty
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Disparate
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Fundamentally distinct or different
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parrot
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Emollient
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Softening and soothing
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molli
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Exculpate
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to keep from guilt or blame
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Fabricated
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made or concocted in order to decieve
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Milk
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to draw or extract profit or advantage from
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Mitigate
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To make less severe , less painful
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Mollify
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To calm or soothe
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molli
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Punctilious
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Strictly attentive to minute details
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Recalcitrant
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Diffiant of authority, not easily mannaged, stubborn
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Sanction
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To give official authorization or approval to
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Spurious
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Not genuine, false
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spurs...pizza cutters
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Substantiated
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supported with proof, verified
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Tenacity
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Persistant adhearance to a beliefe or point of view
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Zealous
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Passionate, extreamily interested in persuing something
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