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20 Cards in this Set
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Impeccable
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free from fault, blemish or error
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Verisimilitude
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the appearance of truth
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allay
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quiet down, calm pacify
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gangly
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tall, thin, and awkwardly built
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extemporaneous
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spoken, performed, or done without practice
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perjury
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false swearing, violation of oath
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matriarch
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a woman who leads a household or tribe
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immutable
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unchanging, invariable, never changing
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lackadaisical
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listless, not interested
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acquiesce
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accept, agree, assent
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euphemism
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substitution of a mild or more pleasant term for a seemingly offensive one
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extortion
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forcing a person to pay by illegal use of fear
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vociferous
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crying out noisly, loud outcry
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succinct
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compressed, concise, brief, but full of meaning
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tacit
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silent, implied, not spoken, but understood
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heinous
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hateful, bad, outrageous
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relevant
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relating to, bearing upon
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erudite
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learned, scholarly
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malignant
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threatning to produce death, harmful
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cajole
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to coax with flattery and insincere talk, to attempt to persuade
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