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20 Cards in this Set
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Bucolic
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characteristic of the countryside; rustic; pastoral
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Burgeon
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to flourish
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Burnish
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to polish
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Buttress
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to reinforce; support
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Cacophonous
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unpleasant or harsh-sounding
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Cadge
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to beg; sponge
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Callous
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thick-skinned; insensitive
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Calumny
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false and malicious accusation; slander
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Canard
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false, deliberately misleading story
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Canon
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an established principle; a basis or standard for judgement a group of literary works
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Cant
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insincere talk; language of a particular group
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Cantankerous
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irritable; ill-humored
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Capricious
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fickle
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Captious
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faultfinding; intended to entrap, as in an argument
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Cardinal
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of formost importance
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Carnal
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of the flesh or body; related to physical appetites
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Carping
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to find fault; complain
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Cartography
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science of making maps
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Caste
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any of the hereditary social classes of Hindu society; social stratification
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Castigation
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punishment; chastisement; criticism
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