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138 Cards in this Set
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Phlegmn
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Sluggishness of temperament
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Enervate
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Take away strength (of the nerve(s), nervous)
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Dither
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To act without clear purpose
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Inure
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To accustom or become used to
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Imprecate
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To curse
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Benediction
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Blessing
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Rejoinder
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A response
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Proclivity
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A natural inclination or predisposition
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Opprobrium
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Public disgrace
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Prudence
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Wisdom
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Scintilla
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A trace amount
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Umbrage
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Offense (I.e. - "take umbrage")
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Noisome
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Stinking, offensive or disgusting
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Maudlin
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Overly sentimental
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Candid
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Honest in speech
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Cupidity
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Greed or irresistible desire for material goods
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Largess
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A generous giving of benevolence that carries a connotation of giving to the less fortunate or inferior
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Penury
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Extreme poverty or lack of resources
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Cosset
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Pamper or treat with great care
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Ossify
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To harden or set in a rigidly conventional pattern, or to change into bone
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Husband (v.)
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To manage economically, as in the phrase "husband resources"
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Taciturn
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Silent
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Obdurate
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Hardened in feeling or resistant to persuasion
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Quiescent
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Motionless or dormant
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Specious
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Deceptively attractive or seemingly plausible but fallacious, as in a "specious argument"
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Pathogenic
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Causing disease, from the Greek 'pathos,' meaning suffering
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Salubrious
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Healthful or therapeutic
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Trenchant
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Incisive, sharp, even caustic or cutting (Assoc. w/ 'venerate, meaning respect deeply)
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Sanguine
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Cheerfully optimistic
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Prevaricate
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To lie or deviate from the truth
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Disabuse
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To set right or free from error, as in to "disabuse him of a misunderstanding"
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Burnish
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To polish
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Prodigal
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Extravagant or wasteful; lavishly abundant
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Irascible
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Ornery or easily made angry
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Foment
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To arouse or incite
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Quash
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Suppress or put down
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Hoary
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Very old, often with the connotation of white or gray from age
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Tangential
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Digressing or extraneous to the matter at hand
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Monastic
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Extremely plain, even austere, as in a monastery
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Voluble
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Talkative or speaking easily
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Reticent
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Reserved but with a connotation of silent
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Turgid
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Bloated or swollen, as from a fluid
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Tawdry
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Gaudy, cheap, and showy
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Inchoate
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Disorganized and incoherent, usually with the sense of not yet fully formed, as in an "inchoate thought;" rudimentary
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Florid
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Excessively decorated or embellished, usually in an ostentatious manner
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Lachrymose
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Tearful or weepy, either literally or temperamentally
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Perspicacious
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Keen-witted, astute, or shrewd
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Inimical
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Hostile or unfriendly
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Glib
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Easily and casually fluent, with overtones of insincerity
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Palliate
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To mitigate or ease something onerous
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Torpor
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Extreme mental and physical sluggishness; lethargic indifference
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Vim
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Vitality and energy (I.e. vigor)
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Guile
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Deceit or trickery
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Invective
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Referring to abusive language
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Euphony
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A pleasant or harmonious sound
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Chicanery
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Deception by craft or guile
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Obsequious
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Overly flattering or servile
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Bawdy
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Racy or lewd; indecent, obscene
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Ethereal
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Heavenly or immaterial
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Dispassionate
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Devoid of personal feeling or bias; impartial, calm
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Panegyric
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Formal or elaborate praise in writing or oration
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Prolix
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Wordy; unnecessary or tedious in length
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Pithy
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To the point; brief, forceful and meaningful in expression
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Flotilla
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A group of small naval vessels; a group moving together
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Meretricious
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Alluring by a show of flashy or vulgar attractions; tawdry. Showy; gaudy
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Tyro
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A beginner in learning anything; novice.
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Hackneyed
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Cliched, unoriginal, or trite
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Hackney
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A small coach pulled by horses
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Egress
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To exit
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Ingress
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To enter
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Elegy
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A mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poem
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Capitulate
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To give into a demand
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Truncate
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To shorten
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Prevaricate
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To lie
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Mendicant
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Begging; practicing begging
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Timorous
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Full of fear; fearful
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Ductile
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Able to be bent
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Cogent
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To the point, relavent; pertinent
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Virulent
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Bitter, spiteful or malicious
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Histrionic
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Having a tendency to act
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Invective
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Prone to insult rather than flatter
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Improvident
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Wasteful
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Fortuitous
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Accidental
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Perfervid
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Ardent or impassioned; very fervent
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Alacrity
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Eager willingness
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Decorum
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Polite behavior
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Trepidus (root)
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Tremble
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Quandary
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A state of perplexity or uncertainty, especially as to what to do; dilemma
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Anathema
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A person or thing that is intensely disliked, loathed
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Boon
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Something to be thankful for; blessing, benefit
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Opprobrium
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Infamy and disgrace; shameful
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Aquisitive
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Grasping or greedy; eager to get wealth, possessions, etc.
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Equivocate
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To avoid intentional language
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Desiccate
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To make dry
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Inexorable
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Unable to relent
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Invective
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An insulting or abusive word or expression
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Hermetic
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Not affected by outward influence or power; isolated
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Perfidiousness
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Treacherous, deliberately faithless; deceitful
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Recreance
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Cowardice; cowardly or craven
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Turbidness
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Muddiness; clouded, opaque, obscured
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Dulcetness
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Having a sweet sound; pleasent or agreeable, melodious
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Sublimeness
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Grandeur; inspiring awe, veneration
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Obfuscate
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To make obscure, to cloud over
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Obviate
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To eliminate; render unnecessary
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Abrogate
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To nullify or quash; to abolish by formal or official means; annul by an authoritative act; repeal
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Censure
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Punish; strong or vehement expression of disapproval
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Proscribe
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Condemn, banish; to exile, prohibit
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Expurgate
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To remove obscene passages from a book; to amend by removing words
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Anthropomorphic
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Resembling or made to resemble a human form
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Lucubratory
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Erudite and scholarly
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Obtuse
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Slow of mind
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Bellicose
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Inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile; belligerent; pugnacious
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Dupe
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Someone who has been fooled by a nasty trick; an innocent victim
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Malefactor
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A person who does harm to other people; a wicked trickster
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Distend
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To expand by stretching, as something hollow or elastic
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Vacillate
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to waver in mind or opinion; be indecisive or irresolute
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Frenetic
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To be greatly excited; frantic, frenzied
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Fastidious
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Greatly attentive; excessively particular, critical, or demanding
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Credulity
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Gullibility
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Perfidy
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An act or instance of faithlessness or treachery
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Irascible
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Easily provoked to anger; very irritable
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Indolent
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having or showing a disposition to avoid exertion; slothful; inactive
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Vitiate
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To make faulty; to impair the quality of; debase; corrupt
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Collate
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To arrange; to gather or arrange in their proper sequence
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Otiose
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Useless; being at leisure; idle or indolent
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Unwonted
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Uncommon or unusual; not customary, rare
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Quotidian
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Something known or familiar
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Expostulate
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To argue strongly for a point
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Inveigh
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To protest strongly or attack vehemently with words; rail
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Cadge
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To obtain by imposing on another's generosity or friendship (Bum)
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Palliate
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To moderate or reduce the harmful effects of something
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Beatify
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To make blissfully happy
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Adventitious
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Associated with something by chance rather than as an integral part; extrinsic
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Piecemeal
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Something that is constructed from many parts
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Germane
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Relevant and appropriate to the subject; pertinent
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Cogent
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Clear; to the point, relevant
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Antithetical
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Directly opposed or contrasted; opposite
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Neologism
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New words
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