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21 Cards in this Set
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Nimble, expert or skillful in the use of one's hands or body; adept at accomplishing one's aim
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adroit
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an open admission or statement
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avowal
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To accede to a demand for surrender
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capitulate
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To establish the limits of
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demarcate
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to cause to come into disorder
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discomfit
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Occuring during the daytime
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diurnal
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showing an inappropriate desregard for decorum; disrespectful
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flippant
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a person who professes belief in a dogma system of belief (especially in a religion), but differs with a tenet of that system
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heretic
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a member of the animal family to whish humans belong
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hominid
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to protest strongly
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inveigh
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intelligible; clear mental state
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lucid
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gruesome or senstionalistic
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lurid
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to wander in search of booty
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maraud
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one billionth of a second; shortest conceivable period of time
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nanosecond
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stingy; unwillingness to give share of spend
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niggardly
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to exclude or banish
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ostracize
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agreeable in taste; acceptable
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palatable
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boxing
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pugilism
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to boil; someone who internalizes agitation or anger
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seethe
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the scince of the way meaning is communicated through language
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semantics
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someone that is elected leader who lacks real power; by title only
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titular
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