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65 Cards in this Set
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Aggrandize
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To increase in power and influence
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Amalgamate
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to combine
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Ameliorate
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To make better
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Ardor
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Intense and passionate feeling
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Attenuate
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to reduce in force or degree
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Austere
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stern appearance, undecorated
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Banal
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predictable
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Capricious
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Change one's mind quickly
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Caustic
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Biting in wit
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Chicanery
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Deception by means of craft
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Cogent
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convincing and well reasoned
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Credulous
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too trusting
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Decorum
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appropriateness of behavior
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Desiccate
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to dry out thoroughly
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Desultory
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Jumping from one thing to another
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Diffident
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Lack self confidence
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Dilatory
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Intended to delay
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Dilettante
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superficial interest
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Dirge
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Funeral Hymn or speech
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Disparate
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Fundamentally different
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Dissemble
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to present a false appearance
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Efficacy
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Effectiveness
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Elegy
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A sorrowful poem or speech
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Enervate
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To reduce in strength
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Enumerate
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To count or list
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Ephemeral
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lasting a short time
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Erudite
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Learned or scholarly
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Esoteric
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Known or understood only by a few
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Eulogy
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Speech in praise of someone
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Exculpate
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to clear from blame
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Exigent
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Urgent
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Fawn
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to grovel
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Garrulous
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Tend to talk a lot
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Guile
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deceit
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Iconoclast
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one who opposes established beliefs
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Inchoate
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not fully formed
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Ingenuous
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showing innocence
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Inimical
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Hostile
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Irascible
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Easily made angry
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Laconic
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Using few words
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Loquacious
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Talkative
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Malinger
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to evade responsibility
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Misanthrope
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A person who dislikes others
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Mollify
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to calm or make less sever
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Obdurate
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hardened in feeling, resistant to persuasion
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Obsequious
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overly submissive
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Obviate
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to prevent, to make unnecessary
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Onerous
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Troublesome and oppressive
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Opprobrium
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public disgrace
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Ostentation
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Excessive Showiness
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Pedant
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someone who shows off learning
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Perfidious
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willing to betray one's trust
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Permeate
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to penetrate
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Prevaricate
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to lie or deviate from truth
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Prodigal
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Lavish, wasteful
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Propitiate
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to appease
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Quiescent
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motionless
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Reticent
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silent, reserved
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Soporific
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Causing sleep or lethargy
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Specious
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Deceptively attractive, seems plausible but not
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Tacit
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done without using words
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Taciturn
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silent, not talkitave
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Torpor
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extreme mental and physical sluggishness
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Vacillate
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to sway physically
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Veracity
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filled with truth and accuracy
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