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110 Cards in this Set
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Deride |
Treat with contempt; mock |
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Seraphic |
Angelic; sweet |
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Diatribe |
Abusive; condemnatory speech |
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Discern |
To recognize |
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Pare |
Trim off excess |
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Curmudgeon |
A cranky person |
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Missive |
A written note or letter |
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Lumber |
To move slow and awkwardly |
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Maelstrom |
Whirlpool |
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Encomium |
Warm praise |
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Fractious |
Rebellious |
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Droll |
Amusing in a subtle way |
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Wily |
Clever; deceptive |
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Obviate |
To prevent |
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Dither |
To act confusedly |
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Dissemble |
To present a false appearance |
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Mollify |
Make less severe |
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Bilk |
Cheat or defraud |
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Ribald |
Humorous in a vulgar way |
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Hoary |
Very old |
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Cabal |
A secret group trying to overturn something |
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Impetuous |
Quickly act without thinking |
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Imprecation |
A curse |
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Innocuous |
Harmless |
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Noisome |
Stinky |
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Arrogate |
To claim without justification |
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Ingratiate |
to please to seek something in return |
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Itinerant |
Wandering from place to place |
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Circumspect |
Cautious |
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Apostate |
Someone who renounces a belief |
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Molt |
To shed hair |
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Profligate |
Corrupt; degenerate |
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Solecism |
Grammatical mistake |
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Tawdry |
Cheap; showy |
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Surly |
Rude and bad tempered |
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Fallow |
Dormant; unused |
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Pithy |
Profound yet concise |
Harold |
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Upbraid |
To scold sharply |
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Pariah |
An outcast |
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Desultory |
Jumping from one thing to the other |
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Pastiche |
A piece of literature imitating other works |
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Impiuos |
Not devoted |
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Blithe |
Joyful and without appropriate thought |
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Distend |
To swell |
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Laud |
To glorify |
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Obdurate |
Difficult to persuade |
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Jingoism |
Belligerent support of ones country |
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Affected |
Phony |
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Leery |
Suspicious |
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Listless |
Lacking energy and enthusiasm |
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Blight |
To afflict; to destroy |
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Abase |
To humble; to disgrace |
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Oblique |
Indirect or evasive |
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Caustic |
Sarcastic in a sharp way |
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Vestige |
A trace amount; remnants |
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Expurgate |
To censor |
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Rejoinder |
A quick response |
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Perfunctory |
Done in a routine way |
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Slake |
To calm down or moderate |
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Levity |
Inappropriate lack of seriousness |
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Vituperate |
To abuse verbally |
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Overwrought |
Agitated; overdone |
The lawyer on the phone |
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Parley |
Discussion between two enemies |
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Legerdemain |
Trickery |
The kid trying to ... His mom |
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Abeyance |
Temporary suppression |
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Phalanx |
A tight group |
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Requite |
To repay |
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Impecunious |
Poor |
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Banal |
Boring |
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Repast |
Meal |
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Lassitude |
Diminished energy |
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Scintilla |
A trace amount |
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Fatuous |
Stupid |
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Lissome |
Flexible |
A yoga teacher |
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Cloying |
Sickly sweet |
A new couple |
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Cosset |
To pamper |
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Lampoon |
To ridicule with satire |
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Dirge |
A funeral hymn |
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Orotund |
Pompous; rich and full in sound |
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Glib |
Fluent in an insincere manner |
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Tirade |
Long and harsh speech |
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Wanton |
Undisciplined; reckless |
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Perfidious |
Willing to betray someone |
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Impervious |
Impossible to penetrate |
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Frugality |
Tending to be cheap |
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Torpor |
Extreme mental and physical sluggishness |
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Waver |
To fluctuate between choices |
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Abeyance |
Temporary suppression |
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Epicure |
A person with refined taste |
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Vim |
Vitality and energy |
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Occlude |
To stop; to prevent the passage of something |
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Iconoclastic |
One who oposes established beliefs |
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Paragon |
Model of excellence or perfection |
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Plucky |
Courageous; splunky |
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Iniquity |
A sin, an evil act |
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Dilatory |
Intended to delay |
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Impugn |
To call into question |
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Lavish |
Extremely generous or extravagant |
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Repose |
Relaxation |
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Dilate |
To make lager |
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Flag |
To decline in vigor |
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Sedition |
Behavior that promotes rebellion against the state |
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Demur |
To express doubts or objections |
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Panegyric |
Elaborate praise |
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Imbue |
To infuse |
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Stentorian |
Extremely loud |
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Brash |
Self-assertive in a rude way |
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Ubiquitous |
Found everywhere |
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Menagerie |
Collection of animals |
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Aquiescent |
Submissive |
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