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69 Cards in this Set
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Ambiguity
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Doubtfullness or uncertainty of meaning or intention
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Accusation
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A charge of wrongdoing
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Astute
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Of keen penetration or discernment; sagacious
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Blueprint
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A process of photographic printing, used chiefly in copying architectural and mechanical drawings, which produces a white line on a blue background
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Abandoned
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Forsaken or deserted
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Deride
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To laugh at in scorn or contempt; scoff or jeer at; mock
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Distort
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To twist awry or out of shape; make crooked or deformed
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Exclude
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To shut or keep out; prevent the entrance of
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Illusory
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Deceptive
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Imitate
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To follow or endeavor to follow as a model or example
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Condemn
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To express an unfavorable or adverse judgment on
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Contemporary
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Existing, occurring, or living at the same time; belonging to the same time
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Contempt
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The feeling with which a person regards anything considered mean, vile, or worthless; disdain; scorn
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Critic
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A person who judges, evaluates, or criticizes
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Debate
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A discussion, as of a public question in an assembly, involving opposing viewpoints
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Modest
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Having or showing a moderate or humble estimate of one's merits, importance, etc.; free from vanity, egotism, boastfulness, or great pretensions
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Novel
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New
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Offense
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A violation or breaking of a social or moral rule; transgression; sin
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Oppose
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To act against or provide resistance to; combat
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Perplex
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To cause to be puzzled or bewildered over what is not understood or certain; confuse mentally
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Prosaic
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Commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative
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Restrain
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To hold back from action; keep in check or under control; repress
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Scrutinize
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To examine in detail with careful or critical attention
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Supplant
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To take the place of (another), as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like
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Surreptitious
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Obtained, done, made, etc., by stealth; secret or unauthorized; clandestine
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Explicit
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Fully and clearly expressed or demonstrated; leaving nothing merely implied; unequivocal
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Ravenously
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Extremely hungry; famished; voracious
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Impart
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To make known; tell; relate; disclose
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Profound
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Penetrating or entering deeply into subjects of thought or knowledge; having deep insight or understanding
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Declamation
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Exercise in oratory or elocution, as in the recitation of a classic speech
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Commiserate
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To feel or express sorrow or sympathy for; empathize with; pity
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Larceny
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The wrongful taking and carrying away of the personal goods of another from his or her possession with intent to convert them to the taker's own use
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Indignation
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Strong displeasure at something considered unjust, offensive, insulting, or base; righteous anger
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Consternation
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A sudden, alarming amazement or dread that results in utter confusion; dismay
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Gloat
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To look at or think about with great or excessive, often smug or malicious, satisfaction
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Remonstrance
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A protest
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Abhorrence
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A feeling of extreme repugnance or aversion; utter loathing; abomination
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Gait
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A manner of walking, stepping, or running
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Appall
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To fill or overcome with horror, consternation, or fear; dismay
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Apothecary
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A druggist; a pharmacist
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Bestial
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Of, pertaining to, or having the form of a beast
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Capricious
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Subject to, led by, or indicative of caprice or whim; erratic
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Degradation
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Humiliation
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Extraneous
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Introduced or coming from without; not belonging or proper to a thing; external; foreign
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Idiosyncratic
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A characteristic, habit, mannerism, or the like, that is peculiar to an individual
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Mortify
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To humiliate or shame, as by injury to one's pride or self-respect
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Pedantically
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Overly concerned with minute details or formalisms, esp. in teaching
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Recluse
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A person who lives in seclusion or apart from society, often for religious meditation
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Volatile
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Evaporating rapidly; passing off readily in the form of vapor
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Sawbones
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A surgeon or physician
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Transfigure
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To change in outward form or appearance; transform
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Vicarious
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Performed, exercised, received, or suffered in place of another
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Abominable
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Repugnantly hateful; detestable; loathsome
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Geniality
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Warmly and pleasantly cheerful; cordial
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Calamity
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A great misfortune or disaster, as a flood or serious injury
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Diabolical
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Having the qualities of a devil; devilish; fiendish; outrageously wicked
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Florid
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Reddish; ruddy; rosy
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Harpies
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A ravenous, filthy monster having a woman's head and a bird's body
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Timidity
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Lacking in self-assurance, courage, or bravery; easily alarmed; timorous; shy
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Inscrutable
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Incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable
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Quaint
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Having an old-fashioned attractiveness or charm; oddly picturesque
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Juggernaut
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Any large, overpowering, destructive force or object, as war, a giant battleship, or a powerful football team
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Penitence
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Repentance
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Transcendental
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Superior
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Austere
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Severe in manner or appearance; uncompromising; strict; forbidding
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Besiege
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To crowd around; crowd in upon; surround
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Disinterred
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To take out of the place of interment; exhume; unearth
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Enigma
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A puzzling or inexplicable occurrence or situation
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Hypocrite
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A person who pretends to have virtues, moral or religious beliefs, principles, etc., that he or she does not actually possess, esp. a person whose actions belie stated beliefs
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