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89 Cards in this Set
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Cabal
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(n) small group of persons secretly united promote their own interests
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Cadge
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(v) beg, mooch, panhandle
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Calorific
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(adj) heat producing
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Calumny
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(n) malicious slander
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Canard
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(n) false or unfounded store; fabricated report
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Canon
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(n) collection or authoritative list of books
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Cant
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(n) insincere expressions of piety; thief speak
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Cantata
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(n) story set to music, to be sung by a chorus
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Canter
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(n) slow gallop
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Canto
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(n) division of a long poem
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Capacious
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(adj) spacious
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Capillary
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(adj) having a very fine bore
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Captious
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(adj) faultfinding
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Carapace
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(n) shell covering the back of a turtle, crap, etc
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Carousal
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(n) drunken revel
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Cataclysm
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(n) upheaval
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Cataract
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(n) great waterfall
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Catcall
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(n) shout of disapproval
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Catechism
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(n) book for religious instruction
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Catholic
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(adj) universal, wide-ranging liberal
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Cavalcade
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(n) parade, procession
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Censorious
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(adj) critical
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Centripetal
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(adj) tending towards the center
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Centurion
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(n) Roman army officer
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Cerebration
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(n) thought
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Certitude
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(n) certainty
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Chaff
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(n) worthless products of an endeavor
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Chaffing
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(adj) bantering, joking
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Chase
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(v) ornament a metal surface by indenting
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Chassis
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(n) framework and working parts of an automobile
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Chimerical
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(adj) fantastically improbable
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Chisel
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(v) swindle or cheat
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Choleric
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(adj) hot tempered
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Churlish
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(adj) boorish, rude
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Ciliated
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(adj) having tiny hairs
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Cipher
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(n) a nonentity - worthless person or thing
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Circumspect
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(adj) prudent, cautious
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Circumvent
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(v) outwit, baffle
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Cistern
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(n) reservoir or water tank
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Clangor
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(n) loud, resounding noise
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Clarion
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(adj) shrill, trumpetlike sound
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Coda
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(n) concluding section of a musical or literary composition
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Codify
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(v) arrange laws, rules as a code; classify
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Coeval
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(adj) living at the same time as
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Cogitate
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(v) think over
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Cohorts
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(n) armed band
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Collation
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(n) a light meal
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Colloquy
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(n) informal discussion
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Colossus
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(n) gigantic statue
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Comity
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(n) courtesy; civility
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Commodious
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(adj) spacious & comfortable
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Compact
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(n) agreement
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Compendium
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(v) a brief, comprehensive summary
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Complacency
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(n) self-satisfaction, smugness
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Complaisant
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(adj) trying to please, overly polite
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Concatenate
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(v) link as in a chain
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Concerted
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(adj) mutually agreed upon
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Conclave
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(n) private meeting
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Concomitant
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(n) that which accompanies.... kind of like non congenital.
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Condign
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(adj) appropriate, deserved (almost always in a severe sense)
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Conflagration
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(n) a great fire
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Conflate
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(v) meld or fuse; confuse
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Confluence
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(n) flowing together, crowd
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Connivance
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(n) pretense of ignorance of something wrong; assistance
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Connubial
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(adj) pertaining to marriage or matrimonial state
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Consanguinity
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(n) kinship
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Consequential
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(adj) pompous, self important
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Consign
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(v) deliver officially, commit, transfer ownership
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Consummate
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(adj) wholly without flaw
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Contention
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(n) claim, thesis
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Continence
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(n) self restraint; sexual chastity
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Controvert
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(v) oppose with arguments
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Contumacious
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(adj) disobedient, resisting authority
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Conversant
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(v) familiar with
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Conveyance
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(n) vehicle, transfer
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Convoke
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(v) call together
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Coquette
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(n) flirt
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Corollary
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(n) consequence, accompaniment
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Corporeal
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(adj) bodily; material
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Countermand
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(v) cancel; revoke
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Cozen
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(v) cheat, hoodwink, swindle
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Crabbed
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(adj) sour, peevish
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Craven
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(adj) cowardly
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Credence
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(n) belief
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Crotchety
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(adj) eccentric, whimsical
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Culvert
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(n) artificial channel for water
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Cupidity
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(n) greed
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Curmudgeon
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(n) churlish, miserly person
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Cynosure
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(n) object of general attention
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