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51 Cards in this Set
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Despot
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syn: dictator, precept, autocratic, enjoin
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Bastardization
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syn: debase, abase.
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flag
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officious
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syn: meddlesome
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exiguity
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syn: scarcity, wanting, paucity, dearth, deficiency, meagerness
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estimable
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diminutive
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canard
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syn: rumors, fabrication
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Trenchant
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bereft
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veritable
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syn: veracity, verisimilitude
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countermand
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concomitant
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con - together with, cortinant- companion
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verisimilitude
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syn: veritable, veracity
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Row
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squabble
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noun
1. a noisy quarrel about something trivial. "family squabbles" synonyms:quarrel, row, argument, fight,contretemps, disagreement, difference of opinion, dissension, falling-out,dispute, disputation, contention, clash,altercation, shouting match,exchange, war of words; |
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simulacrum
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splenetic
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syn: angry, wrathful, cross,peevish, petulant, pettish, irritable,irascible, cantankerous, choleric,dyspeptic, testy, tetchy, snappish,waspish, crotchety, crabby, crabbed,querulous, resentful, rancorous,bilious, sour, bitter, acid, liverish;
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surfeit
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abrogate
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pillory
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graft
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syn: venality
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halcyon
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syn: serene, unflappable, placid, poise.
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demonstrative
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eponym
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dissipate
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obtain
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oblique
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exorbitant
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dissolution
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syn: lewd, salacious, debauchery, fetish.
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ineluctable
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palaver
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syn: voluble, prattle, babbling
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capitulate
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dissemble
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lachrymose
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extrapolate
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ebullient
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modicum
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sardonic
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chauvinism
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syn: hauteur
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Evanescent
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raillery
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syn: banter, badinage
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cataclysm
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syn: disaster, catastrophe, calamity,tragedy,
act of God, devastation, crisis,holocaust, ruin, ruination, upheaval,convulsion, blow, shock, reverse,trouble, trial, tribulation; misfortune, mishap, accident,mischance, misadventure, woe,affliction, distress |
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promulgate
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loath
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infelicituous
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adjudicate
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syn: arbitrator
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misattributed
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panacea
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enamored
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hoodwink
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syn: legerdemain, bilk
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