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34 Cards in this Set
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deleterious
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subtly or unexpectedly harmful
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imprecaton
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a curse
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inculcate
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to impress upon the mind
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lapidiary
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the art of cutting stones
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lissome
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flexible, agile
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consternation
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dismay, startling, fear that results in complete confusion
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perfunctory
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superficial, not thorough, indifferent
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perfidiuous
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disloyal
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recondite
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difficult to understand
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wend
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to walk; proceeed
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vitiate
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to pervert. debase; spoil
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untoward
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perverse, unseemly
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turbid
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roiled; muddy; clouded to the point of being opaque
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supine
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morally or mentally slack
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superdilious
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disdainful; arrogant
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tamp
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to plug or drive down, pack in
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tautology
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repeitious; redundancy
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splenetic
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bad tempered
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sophomoric
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self assured arrogance, immature; bombastic
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sophistry
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fallacious reasoning
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saturnine
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gloomy dark sullen
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salutary
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wholesome; causing improvement
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sententious
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tending to moralize excessively
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salacious
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obscene
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propinquity
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nearnesss in time and place; affinty of nature
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prolix
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long-winded, verbose
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peremptory
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admitting no contradiction; haughty
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proscribe
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to ostracize, to banish, to outlaw
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ramify
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to divide or subdivide
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sententious
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tendency to moralize excessively
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inimical
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hostile; adverse
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inimitable
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with imitation, without peer
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invidious
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envious, obnoxious, likely to cause ill-will
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machination
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plot or scheme
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