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75 Cards in this Set
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Abscond
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to leave secretly; to hide
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Aberrant
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Deviating from the norm
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Alacrity
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Eager Willingness
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Anomaly
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Deviating from the normal order
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Approbation
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Expression of praise
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Arduous
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Taxing, daunting
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Assuage
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to ease or lessen; to appease
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Audacious
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daring or fearless; recklessly bold
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Austere
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bar, naked; without adornment
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Axiomatic
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Self-evident truth; a given
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Canonical
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Following accepted traditional standards
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Capricious
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Inclined to change ones mind impulsively
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Censure
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To criticize severely
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Chicanery
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trickery
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Connoisseur
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expert in the matters of taste
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Convoluted
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Complex or complicated
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Disabuse
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to set right; to undeceive
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Discordant
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Conflicting; harsh in sound
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Disparate
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fundamentally distinct
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Eloquent
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well-spoken; articulate
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Enervate
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to weaken
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Ennui
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dissatisfaction and restlessness resulting from boredom or apathy
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Equivocate
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use ambiguous language with deceptive intent
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Erudite
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very learned
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Exculpate
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to clear of blame
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Exigent
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urgent, pressing; requiring immediate action
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Extemporaneous
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improvised; done without preparation
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Filibuster
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intentional obstruction; long speech making to delay legislation
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Fulminate
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to loudly attack or denounce
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Ingenuous
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artless; frank and candid; lacking in sophistication
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Inured
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accustomed to accepting something undesirable
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Irascible
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easily angered
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Laud
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to praise highly
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Lucid
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clear; easily understood
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Magnanimity
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quality of being generously noble in mind and heart
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Martial
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associated with war and armed forces
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Mundane
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of the world; concerned with the ordinary
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Nascent
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coming into being; in early developmental stages
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Nebulous
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vague; cloudy; lacking a clearly defined form
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Neologism
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the creation or use of new words or senses
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Noxious
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harmful; poisonous
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Obtuse
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not clear or precise in thought or expression
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Obviate
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to anticipate and make unnecessary
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Onerous
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troubling; burdensome
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Paean
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song or hymn of praise
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Parody
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humorous imitation intended for ridicule or comic effect
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Perennial
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recurrent through the year; happening repeatedly
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Perfidy
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intentional breach of faith; treachary
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Perfunctory
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Done without care or interest
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Perspicacious
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acutely perspective; having keen discernment
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Prattle
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to babble meaninglessly; to talk in an empty manner
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Precipitate(adj. & verb)
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(adj.) to act with excessive haste or impulse
(verb) to cause to happen before anticipated or desired |
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Predilection
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disposition in favor of something; preference
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Prescience
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Foreknowledge of events
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Prevaricate
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to deliberately avoid the truth
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Qualms
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misgivings; reservations
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Recant
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to retract
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Refute
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to disprove
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Relegate
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to forcibly assign to a lower place or position
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Reticent
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quiet; reluctant to express thoughts or feelings
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Solicitous
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Eager; concerned and attentive
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Sordid
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Characterized by filth; foul
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Sporadic
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happening in scattered instances
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Squander
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to waste by spending or using irresponsibly
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Static
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not moving; at rest
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Stupefy
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to stun, baffle, or amaze
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Synthesis
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combination of parts to make a whole
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Stymie
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to block; to thwart
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Torque
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a force that causes rotation
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Tortuous
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Winding, twisting; excessively complicated
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Truculent
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Fierce and cruel; eager to fight i.e. Ronan
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Veracity
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truthfulness, honesty
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Virulent
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extremely harmful or poisonous; bitterly hostile
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Voracious
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Having an insatiable appetite for an activity
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Waver
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to move to and fro; to be unsettled in an opinion
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