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62 Cards in this Set
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salutary
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tending to promote good health
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sanctimony
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the quality of being hypocritically devout
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sanguine
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inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life
confidently optimistic and cheerful |
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sate
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fill to satisfaction
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saturnine
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showing a brooding ill humor
bitter or scornful |
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savant
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someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field
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scabbard
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a sheath for a sword or dagger
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scurvy
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of the most contempitble kind
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sedulous
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marked by care and persistant effort
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seminal
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containing seeds of later development
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sententious
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concise and full of meaning
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servile
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submissive or fawning in attitude or behavior
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shunt
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implant consisting of a tube made of plastic or rubber
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sinuous
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curved or curving in and out
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slake
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cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water
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solvent
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a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem
a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances |
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sophistry
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a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone
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splentic
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very irritable
of or relating to the spleen |
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spurious
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intended to deceive
born out of wedlock |
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stanch
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stop the flow of a liquid
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stentorian
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used of the voice
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stolid
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having or revealing little emotion or sensibility
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stygian
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dark and dismal
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stymie
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a thwarting and distressing situation
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sublime
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vaporize and then condense right back again
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suborn
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induce to commit perjury or give false testimony
incite to commit a crime or an evil deed |
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subsume
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consider (an instance of something) as part of a general rule or principle
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succor
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assistance in time of difficulty
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summarily
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without delay
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sundry
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miscellaneous unspecified objects
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supercilious
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expressive of contempt
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superimpose
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place on top of
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supersede
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take the place or move into the posistion of
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supine
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offering no resistance
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suppliant
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one praying humbly for something
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supplicate
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ask humbly (for something)
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surfeit
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eating until excessively full
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susceptibility
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the state of being easily affected
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sycophant
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a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage
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tactiturn
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habitually reserved and uncommunicative
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tamp
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press down tightly
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tangential
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of superficial relevance
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tautology
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useless repetition
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temerity
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fearless daring
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temperence
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abstaining from excess
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tenuous
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having little substance or significance
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terse
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breif and to the point, effectively cut short
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timorous
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timid by nature
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torpid
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slow and apathetic
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tortuous
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not straightforward
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tout
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one who sells advice about gambling or speculation
a ticket scalper |
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tractable
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readily reacting to suggestions and influences
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transgress
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pass beyond (limits or boundries)
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transitory
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enduring a very short time
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trenchant
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clearly or sharply defined to the mind
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trepidation
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a feeling of alarm or dread
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trite
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repeated too often
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truclence
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obstreperous and defiant aggressiveness
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turbid
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clouded with sediments, especially of liquid
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turgid
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abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas
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turpitude
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a corrupt or depraved act or practice
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tyro
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someone new to a field or activity
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