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30 Cards in this Set
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Acrid
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sharp and harsh or unpleasantly pungent in taste or odor
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avid
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desirous to the point of greed
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contrite
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crushed in spirit by remorse or guilt
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declivity
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a descending slope
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demure
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shy and modest
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ebullience
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enthusiasm
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effulgence
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brilliant brightness
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enmity
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a feeling or condition of hostility
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abet
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encourage, usually in something bad
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bane
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person or thing that ruins or spoils
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avowal
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frank admission
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candor
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frankness
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castigate
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to punish
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chagrin
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feeling of vexation
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bravado
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showy conduct
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carrion
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flesh of a dead animal
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defile
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to make filthy
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abjure
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to disclaim formally
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extenuate
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to lesson the severity
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progeny
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descendants
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dulcet
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sweet to the ear
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entice
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allure
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languish
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to lose strength
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dissembling
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hiding under a false appearance
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surfeit
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excess
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derision
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ridicule
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officious
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eager to serve or help; meddlesome
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pathetic fallacy
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the concept of attributing human emotions to nature or to inanimate objects.
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interior monologue
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a literary genre that presents a fictional character's sequence of thoughts in the form of a monologue
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stream of conciousness
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style of writing that portrays the inner working of a character's mind
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