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51 Cards in this Set
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Abate
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To make or become less in degree, intensity, value, or amount.
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Abdicate
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to give up a right or responsibility espicially formally
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Abberant
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going off the usual, normal, or right way, deviating from the usual or normal type.
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Abeyance
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a temporary state of inactivity
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Abject
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completley hopeless
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Abjure
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to formally reject often under oath.
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Abscond
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to leave secrectly and suddenly
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Abstemious
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restrained, especially w/food and alcohol
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Absymal
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like an abyss; immeasurably great or low, hopelessly bad.
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Accolade
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an award or other expression of honor or praise.
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Acerbic
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sour or harsh in taste, mood, or temperature
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Accrue
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to grow through additions.
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Acumen
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insight or shrewdness, especially in practical matters.
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Adament
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insistent, immovable
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Admonished
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to advise against something; to gently scold or warn.
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Adulation
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excessive admiration, praise, or devotion.
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Adulterate
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to make impure by adding foreign or inferior elements, materials, or ingrediants.
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Aesthetic
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having to do with beauty or the arts
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Affinity
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an attraction, especially one based on a similiarity in interests.
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Aggrandized
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to make greater in size, power, or honor, to enhance the appearance of greatness.
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Aggregate
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formed by grouping elements into one larger body
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Alacrity
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cheerful readiness
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Alchemy
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the power of process that can change something ordinary into something valuable; a medevil pseudoscience w/the purpose of changing lead into gold.
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Allay
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to put to rest; to decrease in strength or difficulty
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Alleviate
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to lessen the burden make eaiser
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Alloy
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a mixture of two or more different things; literally a mixture of two or more metals or a metal or nonmetal.
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Allure
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to attract; that which attracts
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Amalagmate
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to mix or combine into one body
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Ambiguous
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ill-defined or uncertain; possible to be understood in different ways
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Ambivilance
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uncertainity; the state of having two or more contradictory feelings about something at the same item.
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Ameliorate
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to get or make better
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Amenable
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agreeable, willing or subsmissive; answerable or legally resposible, able to be examined or tested.
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Anachronism
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a person or thing that is out of place in time.
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Analogous
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comparable in such a way that an analogy can be drawn
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Anarchy
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lack of government, complete disorder.
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Anathema
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someone or something that is cursed or disliked intensely, a curse.
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Anodyne
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something that comforts a medicine that relieves pain.
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Anomaly
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Something different, irregular
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Antipathy
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dislike, feeling against
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Apostate
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one who renounces a previous loyalty such as to a religion, nation, or party.
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Apogee
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the highest point, literally, the point at which an orbiting body is farthest from Earth.
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Appease
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to bring a state of peace.
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Apprise
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to inform
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Approbation
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formal approval
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Appropriated
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to set apart for a specific use; to take for oneself.
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Archaic
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of the past; extremely old or out of date.
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Arduous
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extremely difficult.
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Artlessly
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natural, simple, and w/o artificiality; w/o knowledge or skill.
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Ascetic
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strictly self-denying,often for spiritual purpose.
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Artlessly
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natural, simple, and w/o artificiality; w/o knowledge or skill.
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Ascetic
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strictly self-denying,often for spiritual purpose.
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