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30 Cards in this Set
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Acumen
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Keen; accurate judgement or insight; Perspicacious
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Adulterate
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to reduce purity by combining with inferior ingredients
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Amalgamate
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Synthesis; to combine several elements into a whole
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Archaic
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outdated; primitive
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Eccentric
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Departing from norms or conventions
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Endemic
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Characteristic of a particular locality, region, or people
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Evanescent
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tending to disappear like vapor
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Exacerbate
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To make worse
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Fortuitous
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happening by accident or chance
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Germane
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relevant to the subject at hand
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Hedonism
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devotion to pleasurable pursuits. esp. to pleasures of the senses
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Iconoclast
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one who attacks or undermines traditional conventions or institutions
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Luminous
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Characterized by brightness and the emission of light
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Malevolent
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having or showing vicious hatred
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Malleable
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capable of being shaped or formed
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Meticulous
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attentiveness to detail; extreme care and precision to detail
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Misanthrope
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one who hates all other humans
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Mitigate
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to moderate; to make or become less severe
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Pervasive
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having the tendency to spread throughout
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Pirate
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to steal or copy
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Pith
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the essential or central part
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Placate
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to appease; to calm by making concessions
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Prodigal
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recklessly wasteful;squanderous
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Plummet
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to plunge or drop straight down
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Proliferate
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to grow or increase swiftly and abundantly
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Queries
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questions; inquiries; doubts in the mind
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Reverent
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expressing a feeling of profound awe or respect
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Rhetoric
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the of effective use of language for communication and persuasion
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Solvent
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able to meet financial obligations; able to dissolve another substance
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Superfluous
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exceeding what is sufficient or necessary
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