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15 Cards in this Set
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hapless
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unlucky; luckless; unfortunate
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aver
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to state as a fact; to declare or assert
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quotidian
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occurring or recurring daily; commonplace
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tractability
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easily managed or controlled; docile; yielding
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lambaste
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to beat or whip severely; to reprimand or berate harshly; excoriate
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obstreperous
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noisily and stubbornly defiant; aggressively boisterous
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incorrigible
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bad beyond correction or reform; willful; unruly; uncontrollable
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viscid
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having a glutinous consistency; sticky; viscous
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sedulous
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diligent; persistent; hard-working
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vacillate
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to waver indecisively between one course of action or opinion and another; waver (noun form: vacillation)
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redact
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to put into suitable literary form; revise; edit
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emaciation
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abnormal thinness caused by lack of nutrition or by disease
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consequential
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pompous, self-important (primary definitions are: logically following; important)
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divest
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to strip or deprive, esp. of property or rights (noun form: divestiture)
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amortize
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to liquidate or extinguish (a mortgage, debt, or other obligation), esp. by periodic payments to the creditor or to a sinking fund
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