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30 Cards in this Set
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CONVENTION
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a generally agreed-pon practice or attitude
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CONVOLUTED
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complex or complicated
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CORRIGIBLE
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capable of being set right, correctable, reparable
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CORROBORATE
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to provide suporting evidence
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COUNTENANCE
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to approve of or tolerate
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COZEN
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to deceive, beguile, hoodwink
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CRAVEN
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contemptibly fainthearted, pusillanimous, lacking any courage
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CREDULOUS
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too trusting, gullible
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CRESCENDO
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steadily increasing volume or force
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CULPABLE
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deserving blame
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CYNICISM
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an attitude or quality of belief that all people are motivated by selfishness
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DAMP
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to diminish the intensity of something, such as sound or feeling
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DAUNT
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to intimidate or dismay
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DEARTH
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smallness of quantity or number; scarcity; lack
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DEBACLE
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rout, fiasco, complete failure
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DECORUM
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politeness or appropriateness of conduct or behavior
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DEFERENCE
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respect, courtesy
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DEMUR
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to question or oppose
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DENIGRATE
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blacken, belittle, sully, defame, disparage
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DENOUEMENT
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an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot
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DEPRECATE
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to disparage or belittle
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DEPREDATE
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to plunder, pillage, ravage or destroy; to exploit in a predatory manner
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DERIDE
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to speak of or treat with contempt; to mack
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DESICCATE
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to dry out thoroughly
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DERIVATIVE
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unoriginal, obtained from another source
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DESUETUDE
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disuse
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DESULTORY
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jumping from one thing to another; disconnected
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DETRACTION
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slandering, verbal attack, aspersion
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DIAPHANOUS
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transparent, gauzy
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DIATRIBE
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an abusive, condemnatory speech
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