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30 Cards in this Set
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laborious
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Requiring considerable effort and time
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unanimous
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being of one mind
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magnanimous
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showing or suggesting a lofty and courageous spirit
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puerile
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childish, silly
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terminate
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coming to an end or capable of ending
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mandate
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an authoritative command
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supersede
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to cause to be set aside, to take the place or position of
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raucous
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disagreeably harsh or strident
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nascent
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coming or having recently come into existence
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jocose
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given to joking
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nugatory
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of little or no consequence
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punitive
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inflicting, involving, or aiming at punishment
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obliterate
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to remove utterly from recognition or memory
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ratify
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to approve and sanction formally : confirm
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malevolent
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having, showing, or arising from intense often vicious ill will, spite, or hatred
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nullify
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to make of no value or consequence
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juxtapose
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to place side by side
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regress
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movement backward to a previous and especially worse or more primitive state or condition
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minimal
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the least possible
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malleable
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capable of being altered or controlled by outside forces or influences
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lapse
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a temporary deviation or fall especially from a higher to a lower state
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rapacious
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excessively grasping or covetous
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negotiate
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to confer with another so as to arrive at the settlement of some matter
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superfluous
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exceeding what is sufficient or necessary
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provoke
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to incite to anger
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quash
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to suppress or extinguish summarily and completely
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militate
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to have weight or effect
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literate
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educated, cultured
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notorious
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widely and unfavorably known
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reiterate
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to state or do over again or repeatedly sometimes with wearying effect
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