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20 Cards in this Set
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abhor
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to hate deeply, despise
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amend
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to change in a formal way; to change for the better, improve, correct
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buffet
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batter, sock, thump, pummel, toss about
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chaos
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great confusion, disorder, pandemonium
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commodious
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roomy, spacious, comfortable, ample
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corrosive
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eating away gradually, spiteful
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discern
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to see clearly, detect, recognize
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extant
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still existing, surviving
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implicate
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to involve in, entangle
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inter
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to bury, exhume, to consign to oblivion
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martinet
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taskmaster, slave driver, a stickler for the rules
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obviate
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to anticipate and prevent, preclude, ward off
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renegade
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defector, heretic, one who leaves a group, outlaw, traitorous
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reprehensible
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deserving blame or punishment, odious,
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somber
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dark, gloomy, mournful, dismal
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squalid
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filthy, wretched, debased
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turbulent
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disorderly, riotous, violent, stormy, agitated
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vociferous
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loud and noisy, clamorous
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voluminous
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of great size, numerous, massive, copious
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waive
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decline, relinquish, forgo, to do without, defer
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