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69 Cards in this Set
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Antipathy
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Hostility toward, objection, or aversion to
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Aver
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To declare
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Blandishment
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Speech or action intended to coax someone into doing something
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Burgeon
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To grow or flourish
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Buttress
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To support
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Cadge
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To get something by taking advantage of someone
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Caprice
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Impulse
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Complaisant
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Willingly compliant or accepting of the status quo
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Conflagration
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A great fire
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Corporeal
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Having to do with material
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Corporal
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Of the body
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Corroborate
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To strengthen or support
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Craven
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Cowardly
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Deference
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Submission or courteous yielding
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Depredation
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The act of preying upon
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Descry
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To make clear
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Disabuse
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To free a person from falsehood
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Disparaging
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Belittling
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Dissemble
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To conceal one's real motive
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Dogged
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Stubborn; determined
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Efficacy
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Effectiveness
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Effluent
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The quality of flowing out
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Emulate
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To strive to equal or excel
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Encomium
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A formal eulogy or speech of praise
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Engender
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To give rise to; to cause
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Exorbitant
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Exceeding customary or normal limits
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Explicit
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Fully and clearly expressed
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Fathom
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A measure of length; to penetrate to the depths of something in order to understand
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Fledgling
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Inexperienced person
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Florid
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Flushed with a rosy color
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Gossamer
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Very fine
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Guile
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Skillful deceit
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Headlong
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Impulsive
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Improvidence
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An absence of foresight
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Indelible
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Permanent
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Ineffable
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Undescribable
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Ingenious
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Clever
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Insensible
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Numb; unconscious
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Insular
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Of or pertaining to an island; excessively exclusive
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Intransigent
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Stubborn
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Latent
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Present or potential but not evident or active
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Leviathan
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Something very large
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Lugubrious
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Gloomy
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Misnomer
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Incorrect name or word for something
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Obdurate
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Hardened against influence or feeling; intractable
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Obviate
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To prevent by anticipatory meausres; to make unnecessary
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Panegyric
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A writing or speech in praise of a person or thing
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Peccadillo
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A small sin or fault
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Petulant
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Easily or frequently annoyed
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Plastic
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Capable of being molded
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Ponderous
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Heavy; massive
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Precipice
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Cliff with a vertical face
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Precipitate
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To bring about or hasten the occurence of something
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Prevaricate
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To evade the truth
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Prodigal
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Rashly wasteful
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Propitiate
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To appease; to conciliate
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Reproof
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The act of rebuking
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Sanguine
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Cheerful
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Saturnine
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Having a gloomy or morose temperament
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Savant
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A genious
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Sedulous
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Diligent; persistent
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Tacit
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Unspoken; Implied
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Temperate
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Exercising moderation and self-denial; calm or mild
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Tractable
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Ability to be easily managed
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Turpitude
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Corrupt practice; depravity
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Vacuous
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Empty
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Verbose
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Wordy
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Zeal
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Enthusiastic devotion to a cause, ideal, or goal
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Voracious
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Craving or devouring large quantities of food
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