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100 Cards in this Set
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Aldulterate
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To make impure/reduce quality
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Deputize
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To act as a substitute; to empower someone with authority
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Saturnine
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Gloomy and dark
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Quotidian
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Banal, ordinary, conventional
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Evince
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To show clearly, to prove, to reveal
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Bow
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The front part of a ship
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Invidious
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Creating ill-will or envy
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Prehensile
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Capable of grasping or holding; eager; able to perceive
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Immolate
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To kill as a sacrifice, most often by fire
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Nevus
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A birthmark; a blemish
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Farraginous
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Miscellaneous
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Rostrum
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A pulpit; a raised platform for a speech
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Obsequious
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Slavishly attentive; servile
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Picaresque
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Adventurous tale often with humorous mishaps for the main character
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Thew
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Muscle or sinew; muscular power or strength
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Refractory
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Unmanageable; grossly disobedient and stubborn
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Doff
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To take off/remove
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Ululate
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To howl; to wail
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Ecdysiast
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A stripper or prostitute
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Canvass
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To scrutinize
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Sublimate
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To refine, purify, or rarify
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Deign
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To stoop down to someone else's level; to condescend
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Jejune
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Dry; uninteresting; juvenile; uninformed
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Desultory
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Aimless, haphazard; digressing at random; unsteady
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Equivocal/Equivocate
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Ambiguous; open to two interpretations
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Tractable
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Yielding
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Desiccate
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To dry out, dehydrate, or parch
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Engender
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To create, beget, breed; to cause to come into existence
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Laconic
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Few words carefully chosen; terse
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Propriety
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The quality of being proper; appropriateness
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Inveterate
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Habitual, well-established; deeply rooted
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Antediluvian
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Ancient, outdated
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Attenuate
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To weaken
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Aver
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To declare
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Blandishment
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Speech/action intended to coax someone into doing something
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Burgeon
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To grow or flourish
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Cadge
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To get something by taking advantage of someone
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Caprice
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Impulse
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Conflagration
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A great fire
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Craven
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Cowardly; a coward
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Deference
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Submission or courteous yielding
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Depredation
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Act of preying upon or plundering
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Descry
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To make clear; to say
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Diffident
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Lacking self-confidence; modest
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Dissemble
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To conceal one's motive; to feign
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Encomium
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A formal eulogy or speech of praise
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Enervate
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To weaken or destroy something's strength and vitality
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Esoteric
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Intended for or understood by only a few
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Extant
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In existence, still existing
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Fledgling
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An inexperienced person; a baby bird
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Endemic
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Prevalent or native to a certain location or people
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Gossamer
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Very fine; fine fabric
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Iconoclast
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A person who attacks tradition or destroys sacred images
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Impervious
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Poor/Penniless
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Inchoate
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Initial or early stages; incomplete; disorganized
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Ineffable
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Undescribable, unspeakable
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Innocuous
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Harmless
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Insipid
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Dull; lacking excitement
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Intransigent
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Stubborn, unwilling to change; immovable
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Lugubrious
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Weighty, mournful, gloomy (excessively)
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Misanthrope
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One who hates people
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Noisome
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Harmful, offensive, destructive
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Obviate
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To anticipate and prevent; to render unnecessary
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Panegyric
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A writing/speech of praise
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Phlegmatic
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Lethargic; not easily excited
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Precipitate
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To hasten the occurrence of something; to fall quickly and unexpectedly
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Prevaricate
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To evade/stray away from the truth
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Propitiate
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To conciliate; to appease
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Pusillanimous
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Cowardly; timid; petty
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Reproof
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The act of censoring, scolding, or rebuking
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Sanguine
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Cheerful; Confident
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Specious
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Seemingly/Deceptively true but actually false
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Tacit
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Unspoken
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Tractable
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Easily managed or controlled
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Torpitude
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Depravity; baseness
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Tyro
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Beginner, lacking experience
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Viscous
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Slow moving; highly resistant to flow
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Deride
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To mock or treat with contempt
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Abase
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To lower in rank, prestige, or esteem
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Sedulous
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Diligent, preserving; persistent
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Abash
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To destroy self-confidence or self possession
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Abeyance
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Temporary inactivity; suspension
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Abnegate
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Surrender; relinquish
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Abject
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Cast down in spirit
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Abtruse
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Recondite; difficult to comprehend
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Accrete
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Accumulate
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Acme
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The highest point or stage
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Adumbiate
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To suggest or partially disclose
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Anodyne
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Something that soothes, calms, or comforts
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Abjure
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To renounce upon oath
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Badinage
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Playful banter
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Baleful
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Pernicious; deadly
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Bucolic
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Relating to or typical of rural life
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Calumniate
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Speaking maliciously false statements
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Capitulate
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To acquiesce; to cease resisting
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Charlatan
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A fraud, usually making showy pretenses
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Cogent
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Appealing forcibly to the mind; convincing
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Complaisance
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Affability; disposition to please
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Contumacious
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Rebellious
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Convalesce
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To recover health and strength gradually after sickness
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