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135 Cards in this Set
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callous
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uncaring
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platitudes
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dull remarks
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tidings
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news, information, data
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expurgate
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censor
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intransigent
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unyielding
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ineluctable
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inescapable
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modality
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mode
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abstemious
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abstains from pleasures
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mawkish
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sickenly sentimental
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laudatory
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expressing praise
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vituperative
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verbally abusive
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laudatory
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expressing praise
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bawdy
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racy or lewd
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ethereal
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heavenly
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abjure
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to renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid
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accretion
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growht, increase by successive addition, building up
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anodyne
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soothing; something that assuages or allays pain or comforts
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aver
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affirm, assert, prove, justify
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beatify
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to bless, make happy, or ascribe a virtue to; to regard as saintly
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bedizen
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to adorn, especially in a cheap, showy manner; festoon,
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belie
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to give a false impression of, to misrepresent
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boor
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a rude or insensitive person; lout; yokel
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cadge
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to sponge or mooch
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captious
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calculated to confuse or entrap in argument; hypercritical,
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contemn
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to scorn or despise
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descant
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to comment at length, discourse, expatiate
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doggerel
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trivial, poorly constructed verse
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dross
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slag, waste or foreign matter, impurity, surface scum
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effrontery
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boldness, impudence, arrogance
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ephemeral
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evanescent, fleeting, short-lived
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episodic
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loosely connected, not flowing logically
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evince
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to show clearly, to indicate
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foment
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to incite, to rouse
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gainsay
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to deny, dispute, contradict, oppose
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garner
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to gather and save; to store up
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homily
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a sermon or morally instructive lecture
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hirsute
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hairy, shaggy
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iconoclastic
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attacking cherished beliefs, heretical, heterodox
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importune
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to ask incessantly, to beg, to nag
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indolent
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lazy, listless, torpid
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insular
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parochial, narrow-minded
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limpid
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transparent, serene, clear, untroubled, pellucid
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natty
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trimly neat and tidy
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noisome
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offensive, especially to one's sense of smell; fetid
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paradigm
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a model, example, or pattern; exemplar
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partisan
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one-sided, committed to a party, biased or prejudiced;
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penchant
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strong inclination, a liking
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pillory
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to punish, hold up to public scorn
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piquant
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stimulating
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precept
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rule establishing standards of conduct
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proscribe
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ostracize, banish, outlaw
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saturnine
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gloomy, dark, sullen, morose
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sententious
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aphoristic or moralistic; epigrammatic; tending to moralize
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sere
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withered, arid
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slake
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to satisfy or quench
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splenetic
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bad-tempered, irritable
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stanch
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to stop the flow of a fluid
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stint
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to restrain; to be sparing or frugal
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stygian
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gloomy, dark
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turgid
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swollen, tumid, thick, pompous, bombastic
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umbrage
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offense, resentment, pique
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vitiate
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to pervert, debase, spoil, make ineffective
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welter
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to writhe, to toss about, to be in turmoil; state of turmoil; a
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prescient
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knowledge beforehand
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alias
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false name
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caricature
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images where worst features are pronounced
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biology
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study of life
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prodigality
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wasteful spending
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striate
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mark with grooves
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panegyric
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elaborate praise
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triade
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outburst (against something)
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vehemence
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fury
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terror
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extreme fear
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ire
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extreme anger
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threadbare
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wearing old shabby clothing
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pejorative
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belittling
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enterprise
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difficult project
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sanction
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measure used to coerce or
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sanction
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give approval
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flag
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lose interest
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doublet
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under armor, type of clothing
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foil
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thwart, type of sword
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remote
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without certainty
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eternal
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without end
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girder
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provides support to a building
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parry
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to thwart off a blow
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ruthless
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without mercy
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scrawl
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write in a sloppy manner
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amplify
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to increase volume
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epilogue
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concluding part of a novel
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mosaic
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created of many tiles
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privy
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knowing a secret
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scrupulous
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living by a strict code
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contentious
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looking for an argument
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hostile
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feeling anger
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dull
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lacking brilliance
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decimated
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destroyed
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differentiated
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to distinguish
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flagrant
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noticeable
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affable
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easy to approach
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scurilous
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abusive
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bellicose
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eager to fight
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miserly
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stingy
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soporific
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provides sleep
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enfranchise
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to free
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elucidate
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to make increasingly clear
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enervate
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to weaken
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attentuate
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to make weaker
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slag
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waste produced ina furnace
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silo
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structure to store grain
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taciturn
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silence
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loquacious
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talkative
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ascetic
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severe
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hackneyed
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unoriginal
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ponderous
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not noted for lightness
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doggedly
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tenaciously
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parochial
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narrow-minded
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salcious
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scandalous
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ephemeral
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short-lived
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corral
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to take control or possession of
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mettle
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courage
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meddle
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interfere
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husband
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to manage/conserve
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appropriate
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to take for one's own use
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fry
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baby fish
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die
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mold used for shaping piece of metal
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sap
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deplete/weaken
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slight
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to insult
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strut
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a support for a projecting part
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hack
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a bad writer
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temper
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moderate/strengthen
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lumber
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to move without grace
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waive
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to relinauish
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paragon
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model of excellence
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disabuse
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to free from error
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