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43 Cards in this Set
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paean
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a song of praise
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parsimonious
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stingy
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paucity
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scarcity
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pedagogoical
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pertaining to teaching
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pedantic
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bookish
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penury
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poverty
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pernicious
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destructive
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perspicacious
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keen
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phlegmatic
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sluggish
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pithy
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concise
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polemic
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a controversy
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pretext
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excuse
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prevaricate
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lie
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probity
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integrity
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problematic
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uncertain
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prodigal
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wasteful
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prodigious
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marvelous, enormous
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profligate
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licentious, prodigal; utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated; lewd
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prosaic
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uninspired; flat
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proscribe
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prohibit
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raconteur
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story teller
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recalcitrant
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stubborn
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redoubtable
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formidable, steadfast
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refractory
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obstinate
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reprobate
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miscreant; a depraved, unprincipled, or wicked person: a drunken reprobate
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sanguinary
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gory; murderous; sang'-gwuh-ner-ee; full of or characterized by bloodshed; bloody: a sanguinary struggle
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sedulous
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diligent
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sophistry
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specious reasoning; noun
a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone |
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specious
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false but plausible; having the ring of truth or plausibility but actually fallacious: a specious argument.
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spurious
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false, counterfeit
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supercilious
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arrogant
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surfeit
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overabundance
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synthesis
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combination
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torpid
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lethargic, inactive
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tractable
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docile, manageable
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trenchant
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incisive, penetrating
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truculent
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fierce, savage
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untoward
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perverse
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urbane
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refined, worldly
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vilify
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defame
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vitriolic
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scathing
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vituperative
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abusive
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xenophobia
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fear of foreigners
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