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95 Cards in this Set
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Filigree
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Delicate
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Flout, to
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to reject
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Foible
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weakness
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Fractious
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Unruly
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Franchise
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Right granted by authority
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Freshet
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sudden flood
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Frowzy
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dirty
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Fulsome
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Disgustingly excessive
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Gadfly
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animal biting fly
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Gambit
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Opening a chess match in which a piece is sacrified
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Gambol, to
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to skip
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Garner, to
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to gather
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Garrulity
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talkativeness
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Genre
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Style of art illustrating scenes of common life
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Genuflect, to
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to bend the knee in worship
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Gibe, to
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to mock
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Glib
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Fluent
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Gourmand
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Epicure
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Grouse, to
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to complain
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Guarrulous
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talkative
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guileless
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without deceit
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Hap
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chance
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Harangue
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Noisy
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Histrionic
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Theatrical
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Hoary
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white with age
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Hoyden
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Boisterous girl
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Hummock
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small hill
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Iconoclastic
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Attacking cherished traditions
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Ignoble
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of lowly origin
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Ignominious
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Disgraceful
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Imbrue, to
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to drench
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Immolate, to
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to offer as a sacrifice
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Immolation
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sacrifice
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immure, to
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to imprison
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impalpable
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intangible
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Imbrue, to
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to drench
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Immolate, to
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to offer as a sacrifice
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Immolation
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sacrifice
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Immure, to
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To imprison
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Implacable
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Incapable of being pacified
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Impolitic
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Unwise
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Importune, to
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To entreat urgently
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impugn, to
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to doubt
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impute, to
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to charge of a crime
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Inchoate
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elementary
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Incisive
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cutting, sharp
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Incongruity
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lack of harmony
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incorporeal
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immaterial
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increment
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increase
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incubus
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demon
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Indolence
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Laziness
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Inductive
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Pertains to making a generalization after observing the specific
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Ineffable
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Undescribable
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Ineluctable
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Irresistible
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Inertia
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being indisposed to move
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Inexorable
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implacable
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Inimical
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hostile
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inscrutable
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incomprehensible
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Insensate
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without feeling
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insouciant
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indifferent
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integument
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outer covering or skin
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interdict, to
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to prohibit
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interlocutory
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intermediate
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internecine
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deadly
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interpolate, to
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to insert between
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intractable
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unruly
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intrinsically
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essentially
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inured
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accustomed
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invective
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abuse
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inveigh, to
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to denounce
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inveterate
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deep-rooted
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irascible
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irritable
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irrefragable
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indisputable
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irrefrangible
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indistructible
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iterate to
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to repeat
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Jeremiad
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lament
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Jingoism
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militant patriotism
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Jocund
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merry
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juggernaut
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crushing force
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junket
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a merry feast
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juxtapose, to
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to place side by side
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ken
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range of knowledge
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kismet
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fate
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kith
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familiar friends
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labile
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unstable
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laconic
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brief and to the point
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languor
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depression
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largess(e)
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generous gift
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lassitude
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langour
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legerdemain
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sleight of hand
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lethargy
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torpor
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ligneous
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like wood
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limn
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to depict
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limpid
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clear
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lucre
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money
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