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124 Cards in this Set
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Ebullient
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showing excitement
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Tendentious
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marked by a strong point of view, partisan
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Vituperate
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scolding
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Loquacious
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talkative
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Stolid
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dull, unemotional
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Intransigent
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refusing to agree
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Bombastic
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pompous, self inflated language
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Opprobrium
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public disgrace, infamy
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Proscribe
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to condemn as harmful, ostracize
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Pedantic
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excessively concerned with rules, dispplaying academic learning
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Ephemeral
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short lived
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Capricious
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fickle, changes mind easily
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Elegy
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A solemn poem or speach
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Verisimilitude
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The appearance of being true or real
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Apogee
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The highest or most distant point
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Malign
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To speak harmful untruths about, to slander
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Decadent
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Characterized by or reflecting a state of moral or cultural decline
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Tangential
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Peripheral, hardly touching a matter
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Anomalous
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Irregular
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Approbation
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approval, praise, consideration
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Abeyance
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suspended action
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Abjure
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to renounce an oath
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Abrogate
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to abolish by formal means
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Abscond
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Depart secretly and hide
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Abstemious
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not indulgent, especially in food or drink
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Accretion
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increase by natural growth
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Acrimonious
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stinging or bitter in nature
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Adjure
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to beg or command
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Adventitious
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accidental
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Aggrandize
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to increase in power
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Alacrity
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cheerful promptness
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Amatory
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pertaining to lovers
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Anachronism
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something or someone misplaced in time
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Apostasy
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renunciation of one's previous loyalty
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Apotheosis
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glorified ideal
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Aprise
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inform
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Arrogate
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to claim unwarrantably
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Ascetic
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practicing self denial
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Attenuate
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make thinner
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Austere
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forbidding in approval
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Aver
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assert confidently or declare as in law, state as fact
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Avocation
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something done in addition to principle occupation
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Assiduous
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Diligent, persistent, hardworking
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Antediluvian
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prehistoric, ancient beyond measure
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Anthropomorphic
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attributing human qualitites to non humans
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Aplomb
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poise, confidence
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Arboreal
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relating to trees
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Ambulatory
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itinerant, walking around
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Abstruse
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Difficult to comprehend
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Adroit
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skillful, highly accomplished
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Abut
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to touch, to be in contact with
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Adumbrate
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to sketch
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Aerie
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nook or nest built high in the air
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Abnegate
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to deny, renounce
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Ancillary
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accessory
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Acme
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highest point or summit
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Bilious
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easily irritated
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Bifurcate
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divide into 2 parts
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Benison
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blessing
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Bacchanalian
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drunkenly festive
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Bulwark
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defense wall
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Bon homie
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good natured geniaity
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capitulate
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To surrender unconditionally or on stipulated terms
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castigate
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To punish or criticize harshly
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caustic
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burning, sarcastically biting
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chicanery
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trickery; deception by means of craft or guile
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circumambulate
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To walk about or around
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circumscribe
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to draw a line around
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circumspect
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watchful and discrete
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cogent
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convincing and well reasoned
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compendium
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brief, comprehensive summary
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compunction
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A feeling of uneasiness for doing wrong
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concentric
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Having a common centre
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conciliate
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to placate, win over
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conflagration
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a large, destructive fire
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contention
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claim, thesis
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contravene
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to come into conflict with
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convoke
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to call together
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corroborate
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to provide supporting evidence
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craven
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cowardly
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credulous
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too trusting, gullible
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cursory
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going rapidly over something
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deign
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To think fit or in accordance with one’s dignity
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denigrate
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blacken
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deride
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ridicule, make fun of
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derivative
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unoriginal
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desiccate
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To dry out thoroughly
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desultory
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aimless; haphazard; digressing at random
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diatribe
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bitter, scolding
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diffident
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Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
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diffuse
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to spread widely or thinly
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dilatory
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inclined to delay, procrastinate
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dilettante
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Someone with an amateurish and superficial interest in a topic
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dirge
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Lament with music
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disabuse
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Correct a false impression; to set right; to free from error
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discordant
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Not harmonious; conflicting
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discrete
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separate; unconnected; consisting of distinct parts
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disport
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to divert, amuse oneself
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dissemble
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disguise; pretend; to disguise one’s real intentions or character
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disseminate
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distribute, scatter widely
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dissonance
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discord, opposite of harmony
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divest
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strip, derive
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dogmatic
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opinionated, doctrinal
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efficacy*
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power to produce desired result, effective
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effigy
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dummy, likeness or image
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effluence
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flowing out of
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effrontery
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impudence, boldness
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enervate
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weaken, reduce in strength
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epigram
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witty or pointed saying
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epithet
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word or phrase used to characterize a being
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equanimity
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calmness, composure
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equivocate
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lie; mislead; attempt to conceal the truth
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erudite
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learned, scholary, bookish
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esoteric
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hard to understand, known to only a few
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estimable
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admirable
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euphony
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pleasantness of sound
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exculpate
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clear from blame
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execrable
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abominable
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exigency
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urgent situation
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expound
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to set forth in detail
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fatuous
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brainless, inane
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fawning*
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trying to please by acting flattering
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fiduciary
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held or given in trust
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flout
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reject, mock, show contempt for
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