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30 Cards in this Set
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mitigate
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to lessen
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defenestration
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to throw ones self out of a window
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forestall
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to prevent
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subterfuge
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deciet used in order to achieve ones goals
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bigamous
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having more than one wife
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prodigous
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large quanity
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catharsis
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emotional purification
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colloquial
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conversational, informal
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elucidate
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to make clearer
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furtive
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done slyly
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prosaic
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banal (boring, over used)
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spurious
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false, fake
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strident
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loud, harsh
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surmise
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to infer
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vapid
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tasteless or dull
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ingenous
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sincere, unsophisticated
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inscrutable
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hard to understand
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impenetrable
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hard to understand; impossible to pass through
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fell
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cruel
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interlocution
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conversation
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collusion
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conspiracy
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sagacious
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wise
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compunction
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guilt
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matriculate
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to enroll
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defunct
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dead and gone
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abstemious
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someone who refrains from doing something
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paltry
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something that lacks signifigance
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penchant
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liking or enthusiasm for
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secular
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not having to do with religon
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insoluble
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without an answer
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