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90 Cards in this Set
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connivance
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permission to offend; pretense of ignorance of something wrong
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connubial
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pertaining to marriage or the matrimonial state
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consanguinity
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kinship
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conscientious
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scrupulous; careful
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consequential
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self-important; pompous
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consign
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deliver officially; entrust
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construe
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explain; interpret
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continence
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self-restraint; sexual chastity
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controvert
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attempt to refute with arguments
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contumacious
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disobedient; resisting authority
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countenance (v.)
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tolerate
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coutermand
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cancel; revoke
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cow
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terrorize; intimidate
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cozen
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swindle; hoodwink
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crabbed
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sour; peevish
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credulity
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gullibility; naivete
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crotchety
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eccentric; whimsical
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culvert
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artificial channel for water
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cupidity
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greed
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cynosure
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object of general attention
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debase
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reduce in quality or value; degrade
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debauch
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corrupt; seduce from virtue
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decimate
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kill (one in ten)
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decorous
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orderly; having good taste in manners
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deference
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courteous regard for another's wishes
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defray
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provide for the payment of
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delusive
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deceptive; raising vain hopes
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demagogue
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a person who appeals to prejudice and emotionality in making an argument
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demotic
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pertaining to the people
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demur (n.)
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objection; protest
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demur (v.)
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to object
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demure
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reserved; serious; COY
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deplore
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regret
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deprecate
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express disapproval of; belittle
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depredation
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plundering
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derelict
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abandoned
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deride
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ridicule; make fun of
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descry
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catch sight of
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desolate (v.)
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to rob of joy
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desuetude
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state of disuse
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desultory
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aimless; haphazard
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devolve
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be transferred to another; delegate to another; gradually worsen
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dialectical
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relating to the art of debate; mutual or reciprocal
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diatribe
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bitter scolding; invective
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diffidence
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shyness
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diffuse
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wordy; rambling; spread out
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dilatory
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tending to delay
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dint
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means; effort
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disaffected
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disloyal
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discerning
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mentally quick and observant
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disclaim
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disown; renounce claim to
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discomfit
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put to rout; defeat; disconcert
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discursive
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rambling; digressing
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disingenuous
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insincere; lacking candor
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dispel
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scatter; drive away
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disport
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amuse
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disquisition
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a formal systematic inquiry
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dissimulate
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pretend; conceal by feigning; dissemble
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distrait
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inattentive; distracted by stress
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doctrinaire
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unable to comprimise about points of doctrine; dogmatic
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doddering
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shaky; infirm with old age
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doggerel
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poor verse
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dogmatic
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arbitrarily opinionated; doctrinal
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dolorous
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sorrowful
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dowdy
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slovenly; untidy
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dregs
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sediment; worthless residue
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suborn
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persuade to act unlawfully
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substantive
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essential; pertaining to the substance of
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subterfuge
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pretense; evasion
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subtlety
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perceptiveness; ingenuity
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sunder
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separate; part
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superannuated
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disqualified because of age
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supererogatory
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superfluous; more than needed
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supernumerary
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person or thing in excess of what is necessary
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suppliant
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entreating; beseeching
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supplicate
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petition humbly
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suppositious
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assumed; counterfeit; hypothetical
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sybarite
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lover of luxury
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synoptic
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providing a general overview
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tantalize
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tease; torture with disappointment
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tatty
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worn and shabby; bedraggled
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tawdry
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cheap and gaudy
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teetotaler
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one who abstains from alcohol
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temerity
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boldness; rashness
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temporize
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act evasively to gain time
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tendentious
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having an aim; BIASED
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tensile
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capable of being stretched
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tesselated
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mosaic; inlaid
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toady
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servile flatterer; sycophant
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dissolute
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lacking moral restraint
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