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67 Cards in this Set
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vitiate
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to corrupt, debase, make ineffective
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stygian
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gloomy, dark
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stentorian
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extremely loud, powerful
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sententious
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aphoristic, moralistic, epigrammatic; tending to moralize
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salutary
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remedial, wholesome, causing improvement
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salacious
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lustful, lascivious, bawdy
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puissance
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power
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puerile
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immature, jejune, nugatory
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propitiate
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to appease, conciliate
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propitious
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auspicious, favorable
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plangent
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pounding, resounding
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peroration
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concluding part of speech, flowery, rhetorical
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pellucid
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transparent, easy to understand, limpid
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panegyric
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praise
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encomium
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praise
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eulogy
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praise
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obstreperous
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noisily defiant, aggressively boisterous
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nonplussed
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baffled, bewildered
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minatory
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menacing, threatening
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meretricious
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cheap, gaudy, tawdry
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mendicant
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beggar, supplicant
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lubricious
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lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery
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jejune
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vapid, uninteresting, nugatory, childish
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inveterate
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deep rooted, ingrained, habitual
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insouciant
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unconcerned, carefree
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ineluctable
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inevitable
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gainsay
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to deny, oppose
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extirpate
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to destroy, exscind
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exscind
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to cut out
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expiate
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to make amends for, atone
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execrate
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to denounce, curse
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explication
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exegesis
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excoriate
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to upbraid, censure
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dirge
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grief
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diaphanous
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transparent, gauzy
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desultory
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random
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desuetude
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disuse
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descry
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to discriminate, discern
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denouement
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outcome, solution
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debacle
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rout, fiasco, failure
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rout
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failure
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fiasco
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failure
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contumacious
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insubordinate, rebellious
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chimera
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illusion
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celerity
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speed, alacrity
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cavil
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to find fault unreasonably
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captious
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nitpicky, meaning to trap in argument
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calumniate
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to slander
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aspersion
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calumny
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abjure
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to renounce, reject
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recant
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to reject
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denounce
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to speak badly about
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renounce
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to reject, take back
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adumbrate
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to foreshadow, intimate, to obscure, overshadow
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anodyne
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soothing
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allay
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to assuage, soothe
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apotheosis
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model of excellence
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asperity
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severity, roughness, acrimony, irritability
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asseverate
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to assert
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aver
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to assert
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allege
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to assert
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assiduous
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sedulous, hardworking
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augury
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omen
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portent
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exalt
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to speak highly of
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extol
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to praise
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acclaim
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to praise
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