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91 Cards in this Set
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turbidity
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not clear
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fealty
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disloyal
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fidelity
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disloyal
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archaic
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old, out of date
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odious
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offensive, disgusting
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novel
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new
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assuage
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passify, ease
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pillory
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public punishment or humiliation
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satiate
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satisfy
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blandish
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to flatter someone
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ameliorate
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diminish in pain
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mercurial
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moods changing all the time
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rancorous
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hateful
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sordid
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filthy, morally low
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morose
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sad, glooomy
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melodramatic
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overly emotional
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platitude
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cliche
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prescience
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knowing things before they happen
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ennui
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boredom
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tyro
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new at something, a novice
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miscreant
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breaks the law, bad person
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curmudgeon
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grumpy old man
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dilettante
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someone who dabbles in a lot of things but not an expert at any.
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misogynist
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hates women
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soporific
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induces sleep
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exigent
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urgent
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torpor
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sleepiness, lazyness
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jejune
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childish, uninteresting
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euphoria
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extremely good feeling
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mettle
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courage
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misconstrue
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misunderstand
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divulge
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tell a secret
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burgeon
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grow very quickly
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bolster
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support, hold up
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denouement
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the end of a story
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extrinsic
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external, coming from outside of you
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cohort
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group of people that move together
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spurious
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false
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anomalous
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different from normal
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insipid
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bland, dull
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ersatz
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false
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abstruse
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difficult to understand
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caustic
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harsh
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nascent
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just starting to develop
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ribald
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indecent, vulgar
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incipient
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starting to develop
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facile
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easy, simplistic
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astute
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quick to understand, quick
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diatribe
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criticism
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eulogy
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praise
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impugnation
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accuse of being untruthful
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axiomatic
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truth that is self evident
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encomium
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praise
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remonstration
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argument against something
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venerates
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to praise
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hagiography
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an extremely positive biography
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vendetta
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fued/threat
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truism
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axiomatic, self truth
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polemic
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controversial argument
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stymied
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block, hold back
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engendered
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caused, give rise to
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leaner
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decreasing
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aberrant
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deviating from
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inscrutable
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difficult to understand
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schematic
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outline in order
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debonair
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very suave
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specious
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false misleading
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duplicitous
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two faced
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dissembling
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lying concealing
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equivocations
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ambiguous statements
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mystified
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confused
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stupefied
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frozen, startled
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vexed
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frustrated or annoyance
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eschew
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avoid
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signal
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crucial, great
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moniker
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name
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rudimentary
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simple, incomplete
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fecund
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better, fertile
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tenaciously
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holding fast
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purports
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claims
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empirical
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based on observation
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ideology
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way of thinking
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handmaiden
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servant
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cataclysmic
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catastrophic
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mythoi
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legendary figure
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obtuse
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difficult to understand
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aspirants
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someone driving with ambition
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flagship
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most important, epitomy
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contemporaneously
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at the same time period
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facet
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an aspect, side
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malignant
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tending to be sever or becoming worse
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