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100 Cards in this Set
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bucolic
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rustic
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burgeon
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to flourish
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burnish
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to polish
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buttress
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to reinforce
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cacophonous
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unpleasant or harsh sounding
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cadge
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to beg
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callous
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insensitive
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calumny
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slander
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canard
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false, misleading story
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canon
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an established principle, group of literary works
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cant
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insincere talk, language of a particular group
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cantankerous
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irritable
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capricious
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fickle
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captious
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faultfinding, intending to entrap
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cardinal
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of foremost importance
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carnal
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of the flesh
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carping
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to find fault
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cartography
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science of making maps
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caste
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social stratification
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castigation
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punishment, criticism
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cataclysm
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violent upheaval causing destruction and change
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catalyst
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something causing change
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categorical
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absolute, without exception
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caucus
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smaller group within an organization
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causal
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involving a cause
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caustic
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sarcastically biting
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celestial
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concerning the heavens, sublime
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centrifugal
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moving away from a center
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centripetal
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moving toward a center
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champion
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to defend or support
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chasten
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to correct by punishment, restrain or subdue
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chicanery
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trickery
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chivalry
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qualities idealized by knighthood
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churlish
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rude
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circuitous
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roundabout
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clairvoyant
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psychic
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clamor
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noisy outcry
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clique
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small, exclusive group
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cloister
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seclude
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coagulate
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thicken
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coalesce
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to cause to become one
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coda
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something that summarizes or concludes
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codify
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to systematize
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cognizant
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aware, informed
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collage
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an assemblage of diverse elements
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commensurate
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proportional
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compendium
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brief, comprehensive summary
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complacent
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self-satisfied
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complaisant
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overly polite, willing to please
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complement
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something that completes
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compliant
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yielding
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compunction
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uneasiness caused by guilt
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concave
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curving inward
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conciliatory
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overcoming distrust or hostility
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concoct
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to invent
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concomitant
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existing concurrently
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condone
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to overlook voluntarily
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confound
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to baffle
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congenial
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suited to, friendly
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conjugal
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pertaining to marriage agreement
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connoisseur
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a person possessing expert knowledge or of discriminating taste
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conscript
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person compulsorily enrolled for military service
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consecrate
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to declare sacred
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contend
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to assert
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contentious
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causing quarrels
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contiguous
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touching, neighboring
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continence
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self-control, abstention form sexual activity
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contrite
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very sorrowful for a wrong
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contumacious
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disobedient, rebellious
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conundrum
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riddle
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convention
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custom, accepted technique of device
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converge
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to approach, come together
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convex
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curved outward
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convival
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sociable
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convoluted
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twisted
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copious
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abundant
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coquette
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woman who flirts
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cornucopia
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state of abundance
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cosmology
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theory of the origin/structure of the universe
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covert
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hidden, secret
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covetous
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desiring something owned by another
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cozen
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decieve
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craven
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cowardly
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credence
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acceptance of something as true
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credo
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creed
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daunt
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to discourage, dishearten
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dearth
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scarcity
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debauchery
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corruption
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decorum
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proper behavior
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defame
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to malign
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default
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to fail to act
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deference
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respect, regard for another's wish
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defunct
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no longer existing
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delineate
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to represent or depict
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demographic
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related to population balance
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demotic
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pertaining to people
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demur
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to express doubt
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denigrate
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to slur someone's reputation
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denizen
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an inhabitant
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denouement
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outcome, unraveling of a plot
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