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57 Cards in this Set
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Acerbity
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acidity, harshness
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Apposite
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fitting, relevant
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Execrate
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curse
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Extemporaneous
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spontaneous
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Fulsome
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offensively excessive
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Innocuous
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harmless
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Mores
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accepted rules of social behavior
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Obloquy
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disgrace
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Potentate
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monarch
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Reticent
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reserved, not speaking freely
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Spurious
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false or counterfeit
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Statutes
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laws
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Trenchant
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perceptive
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Umbrage
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offense or displeasure
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Acrimonious
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bitter, hostile, or spiteful
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Amicable
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friendliness
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Ape
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imitating
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Apian
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having to do with bees
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Chased
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ornamented with grooves or indentations
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Chimera
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an illusion
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Chimerical
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unreal, lies
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Circumlocution
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using too many words to get to a point
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Desiccate
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dry out completely
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Desultory
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random
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Duplicity
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deceptive, dishonest, misleading
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Efficacy
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usefulness, value, or worth
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Factious
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dissenting, as in a faction
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Febrile
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feverish, hysterical
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Imprecation
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a curse
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Inauspicious
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future doesnt look good
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Interdict
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to forbid
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Inveterate
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habitual, established
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Jejune
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boring, insipid
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Laconic
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using very few words
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Loquacious
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talkative
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Macerate
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to make it thinner, emaciate
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Martinet
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person who is stupidly strict, from a French drill sergeant (Loius)
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Mendicant
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beggar
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Mettlesome
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spirited and courageous
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Mollify
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make it feel better or calmer
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Oblique
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indirect
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Pelagic
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having to do with oceans
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Peregrination
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traveling
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Perfidy
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faithlessness, break of trust, such as adultery
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Pettifogging
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deceit or trickery, chicanery
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Pithy
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small or short and to the point
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Proclivity
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inclination or tendency
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Promulgate
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advocate, publicly promote, my father promulgates John Kerrey
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Propitiate
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to make favorably
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Prosaic
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dull or unimaginative
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Quixotic
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idealistic
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Refectory
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institution dining hall
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Solicitude
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a state of uneasiness, anxiety, or concern
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Spendthrift
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somebody who spends money extravagantly and often recklessly
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Turgid
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swollen or bloated, meaningless rhetoric, too many words
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Veracity
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the truth, accuracy, or precision of something
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Votary
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person bound by religious vows, as a nun
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