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59 Cards in this Set
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Obdurate
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Unyielding; hardhearted; intractable
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Hedge
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To mitigate a possible loss by counterbalancing
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Countermand
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To recall or stop by a contrary order
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Undergird
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To give fundamental support; provide with a sound or secure basis
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Abjure
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To renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid
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Anodyne
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Soothing, something that assuages or allays pain or comforts
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Apogee
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Farthest or highest point; culmination; zenith
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Apotheosis
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Deification, glorification to godliness, an exalted example, a model of excellence or perfection
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Asseverate
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To aver, allege, assert
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Bellicose
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Belligerent, pugnacious, warlike
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Captious
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Disposed to point out trivial faults, calculated to confuse or entrap in argument
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Cavil
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To find fault without good reason
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Chimera
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An illusion; originally, an imaginary fire-breathing she-monster
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Contumacious
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Insubordinate, rebellious
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Debacle
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Rout, fiasco, complete failure
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Denouement
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An outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot
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Descry
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To discriminate or discern
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Desuetude
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Disuse
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Desultory
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Random; aimless; marked by a lack of plan or purpose
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Diaphanous
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Transparent, gauzy
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Encomium
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Glowing and enthusiastic praise; pangyric, tribute, eulogy
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Eschew
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To shun or avoid
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Excoriate
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To censure scathingly, to upbraid
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Execrate
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To denounce, feel loathing for, curse, declare to be evil
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Extirpate
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To destroy, exterminate, cut out, exscind
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Fractious
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Quarrelsome, rebellious, unruly, refractory, irritable
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Gainsay
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To deny, dispute, contradict, oppose
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Imbroglio
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Difficult or embarrassing situation
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Ineluctable
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Certain, inevitable
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Inimitable
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One of a kind, peerless
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Insouciant
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Unconcerned, carefree, heedless
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Inveterate
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Deep-rooted, ingrained, habitual
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Jejune
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Vapid, uninteresting, nugatory, childish, immature, puerile
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Lubricious
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Lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery
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Meretricious
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Cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy, showy; attracting by false show
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Minatory
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Menacing, threatening
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Nadir
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Low point, perigee
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Nonplussed
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Baffled, bewildered, at a loss for what to do or think
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Ossified
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Tending to become more rigid, conventional, sterile, and reactionary with age
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Palliate
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To make something seem less serious, to gloss over, to make less severe or intense
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Parsimonious
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Cheap, miserly
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Pellucid
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Transparent, easy to understand, limpid
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Peroration
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The concluding part of a speech, flowery, rhetorical speech
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Plangent
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Pounding, thundering, resounding
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Prolix
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Long-winded, verbose
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Puissance
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Power, strength
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Remonstrate
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To protest, object
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Salacious
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Lustful, lascivious, bawdy
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Saturnine
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Gloomy, dark, sullen, morose
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Sententious
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Aphoristic or moralistic; epigrammatic; tending to moralize excessively
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Stentorian
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Extremely loud and powerful
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Stygian
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Gloomy, dark
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Sycophant
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toady, servile, self-seeking flatterer; parasite
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Tendentious
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Biased; showing marked tendencies
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Tyro
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Novice, greenhorn, rank amateur
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Vitiate
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To corrupt, debase, spoil, make ineffective
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Voluble
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Fluent, verbal, having easy use of spoken language
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Vitiate
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To corrupt, debase, spoil, make ineffective
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Voluble
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Fluent, verbal, having easy use of spoken language
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