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20 Cards in this Set
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mendicant
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a beggar, supplicant
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meretricious
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cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy, showy; attracting by false show
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minatory
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menacing, threatening
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nadir
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low point, perigee
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nonplussed
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baffled, bewildered, at a loss for what to do or think
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obstreperous
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noisily and stubbornly defiant, aggressively boisterous
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ossified
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tending to become more rigid, conventional, sterile, and reactionary with age; literally, turned to bone
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palliate
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to make something seem less serious, to gloss over, to make less severe or intense
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panegyric
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formal praise, eulogy, encomium; panegyrical means expressing elaborate praise
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parsimonious
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cheap, miserly
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peroration
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the concluding part of a speech; flowery, rhetorical speech
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plangent
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pounding, thundering, resounding
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prolix
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long-winded, verbose; prolixity means verbosity
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propitiate
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to appease; to conciliate; propitious means auspicious, favorable
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puerile
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childish, immature, jejune, nugatory
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puissance
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power, strength; puissant means powerful, strong
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pusillanimous
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cowardly, craven
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remonstrate
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to protest, object
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sagacious
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having sound judgment; perceptive, wise; like a sage
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salacious
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lustful, lascivious, bawdy
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