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45 Cards in this Set
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Abscond
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depart clandestinely; steal off and hide
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Aberrant
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deviating from the norm
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Alacrity
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eager and enthusiastic willingness
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Approbation
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expression of approval or praise
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Assuage
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ease or lessen, appease or pacity
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Austere
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without adornment, bare, severely simple, ascetic
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Axiomatic
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taken as given, possessing self-evident truth
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Canonical
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agreeing with accepted or traditional standards
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Capricious
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inclined to change ones mind impulsively; erraatic, unpredictable
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Censure
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severly criticize; officially rebuke
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Chicanery
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trickery, subterfuge
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Disabuse
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undeceive, set right
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Discordant
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conflicting, dissonant or hard is sound
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Effrontery
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extreme boldness or presumptuousness
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Enervate
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weaken
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Equivocate
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use ambiguous language w/ deceptive intent
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Erudite
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scholarly
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Fulminate
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loudly attack or denounce
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Ingenuous
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artless, frank and candid, lacking in sophistication
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Irascible
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easily angered, prone to temperamental outbursts
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Magnanimity
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generous, esp. forgiving
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Martial
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having to do w/ armed forces
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Neologism
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new word, expression, or usage
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Obtuse
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not clear, lacking in sharpness of intellect
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Obviate
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make unnecessary, anticipate
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Onerous
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troublesome, burdensome
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Paean
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song of praise and thanksgiving
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Perennial
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recurrent through the year or many years, happenng repeatedly
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Perfidy (Perfidious)
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intentional bread of faith, treachery
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Perfunctory
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Cursory, done w/o care or interest
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Perspicacious
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acutely perspecitve
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Prattle
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babblemeaninglessly
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Precipitate (adj)
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acting w/ excessive haste or impulse
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Precipitate (v.)
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cause to happen before anticipated or required
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Predilection
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disposition in favor of something
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Prevaricate
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deliberately avoid the truth, mislead
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Reticent
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quiet, reserved, relucant to express thoughts/feelings
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Solicitous
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concerned and attentive, eager
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Sordid
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filthy, grimy, foul
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Static
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not moving, at rest
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stymie
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block, thwart
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truculent
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fierce, cruel, eager to fight
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veracity
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truthfulness, honesty
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virulent
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extremely harmful; bitterly hostile
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voracious
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having insatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit
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