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42 Cards in this Set
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Aberration
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deviation
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Affinity
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kinship by marriage
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Parse
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analyze grammatically
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Panoptic
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showing everything in a single view
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Circumnavigate
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go around something
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Contraindicate
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state to be inadvisable
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Jotting down
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writing down ( taking quick notes )
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Thrust
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gist or aim of something
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Obtuse
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slow to understand
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Endemic
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characteristic of a particular group or place or area of interest or activity
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Inherent
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basic ( characteristic by nature )
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Myriad
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too numerous to count
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Enigma
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mystery
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rife
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abundant ( find widely or frequently )
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Eloquent
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spoken beautifully / expresses emotions clearly
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Eulogy
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high praise (specially when someone dies)
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Arsenal
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weapons storehouse
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deciphering
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working out meanings of obscure things
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Intuit
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know instinctively
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Mendacity
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telling of lies
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fallacious
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deceptive or misleading
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Peruse
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read carefully / examine
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stockpile
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amass: collect and store a large amount of things
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robust
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strongly constructed
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tedious
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boring
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pertaining
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relevance ( related to )
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inferences
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implications or conclusions
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unseemly
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improper
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behoove
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to be necessary or proper
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suffocate
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die from lack of air (stop breathing)
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retard
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slow something down
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legibly
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possible to be read
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mandatory
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obligatory
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endurance
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the power of withstanding hardship or stress
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hung up
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to be obsessed with
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bogged down
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stuck
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rack up
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collect or accumulate something
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alloted
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dedicated
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trump
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surpass by saying or doing something better
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colloquialism
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a word or a phrase that is not formal or literary and is used in ordinary or familiar conversation
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rehearse
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mentally prepare or recite (words one intent to say)
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monologue
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a long speech
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