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110 Cards in this Set
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Vagary
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Caprice/Whim
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Spume
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Froth or foam
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Palimpsest
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Parchment used for a manuscript that the words have been scraped off to be used again.
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Perquisite
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Any gain over stipulated salary
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Valetudinarian
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Invalid
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Interstices
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Cracks, crevasses
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Penury
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Extreme poverty
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Trencherman
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Good eater
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Parley
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Conference
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Madrigal
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Pastoral song
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Niggardly
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meanly stingy; parsimonious
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Decollete
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having a low-necked dress
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Bombastic
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pompous; using inflated language
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Ravening
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rapacious; seeking prey
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Vituperative
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Abusive, scolding
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Intrepid
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Fearless
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Postprandial
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After dinner
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Recherche
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choice, sought after; rare
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Invividious
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designed to create ill will or envy
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Effectual
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Efficient
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Deride
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Scoff at
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Despoil
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Plunder
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Comport
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Bear one's self, behave
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Truncate
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Cut the top off
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Harry
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To raid
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Promulgate
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Make known by official proclamation or publication
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Rubicund
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Healthy Reddish color, ruddy, florid
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Pithy
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Concise, meaty
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Perspicuous
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Plainly expressed
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Sirocco
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warm, sultry wind blown Africa to southern Europe
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Augury
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Omen, premonition
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Peculation
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Embezzlement, theft
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Diadem
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Crown
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Refectory
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Dining Hall
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Remunerative
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Compensating, rewarding
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Nascent
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Incipient; coming into being
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Dilatory
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Delaying
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Lissome
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Agile, lithe
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Pendent
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Suspended, jutting, pending
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Vanguard
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Forerunners; advance forces
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Miscellany
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Mixture of writing on various subjects
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Jeremiad
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Lament, complaint
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Piquant
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pleasantly tart-tasting; stimulating
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Dissolute
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loose in morals
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Furtive
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Stealthy
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Afferent
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Carrying towards the center
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Apropos
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With reference to, properly
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Pertinacious
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stubborn; persistent
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Querelous
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fretful; whining
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Stentorian
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extremely loud
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Untoward
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Improper, unfortunate, annoying
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Veracious
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truthful
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Uxorious
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Excessively devoted to one's wife
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Gerrymander
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change voting district lines in order to favor a political party
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Obtrude
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push into prominence
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Plenipotentiary
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fully empowered
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Mutable
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Changing in form, fickle
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Ukase
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Official decree, usually Russian
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Invective
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Abuse
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Tyro
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Beginner, novice
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Parvenu
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upstart; newly rich person
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Comestible
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Fit to be eaten
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Tureen
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Deep table dish for holding soup
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Lucre
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Money
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Carillon
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Set of bells to be played
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Conjecture
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Surmise, guess
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Supposititious
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assumed; counterfeit; hypothetical
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Morganatic
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Describing a marriage between a member of a royal family and a commoner
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Lachrymose
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Producing tears
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Diaphanous
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Sheer, transparent
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Pellucid
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Transparent, Limpid, easy to understand
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Desultory
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aimless; jumping around
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Declivity
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downward slope
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Benighted
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Overcome by darkness
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Vaunted
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Boasted, bragged, highly publicized
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Expurgate
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clean; remove offensive parts of a book
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Quail
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Cower, lose heart
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Cogent
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Convincing
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Epicure
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Connoisseur of food and drink
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Oratorio
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dramatic poem set to music
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Debacle
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breaking up; downfall
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Calumny
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Malicious misrepresentation, slander
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Inveigh
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denounce; utter censure or invective
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Proscribe
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ostracize; banish; outlaw
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Wheedle
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Cajole; coax; deceive by flattery
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Perjorative
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Having a deteriorating or depreciating effect on the meaning of a word
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Abstruse
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Obscure: profound: difficult to understand
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Cruet
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Small glass bottle for vinegar, oil, etc
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Durance
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Restraint; imprisonment
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Reverie
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Daydream, musing
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Improvident
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Thriftless
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Indemnify
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Make secure against loss; compensate for loss
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Deign
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Condescend
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Sublimate
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Refine; purify
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Martinet
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Strict disciplinarian
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Solstice
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Point at which the sun is farthest from the equator
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Parity
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Equality; close resemblance
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Recreant
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Coward; betrayer of faith
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Sciolism
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Quackery; superficial information
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Dross
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Worthless impurities, waste matter
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Vociferous
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Clamorous; noisy
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Winsome
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Agreeable; gracious; engaging
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Castigate
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Punish
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Prate
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Speak foolishly; boast idly
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Gainsay
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Deny
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Endue
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Provide with some quality; endow
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Foment
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Stir up, instigate
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Congruence
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Correspondence of parts; harmonious relationship
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Melange
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Medley; miscellany
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Fanfare
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Call by bugles or trumpets
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