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58 Cards in this Set
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refractory
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unmanageable
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salubrious
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healthful
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solicitous
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concerned, eager
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soporific
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sleep-inducing
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spurious
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false
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temerity
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boldness, rashness, reckless
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tenuous
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thin, slender
lacking clarity, weak |
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venerate
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revere
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vscous
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sticky, glutinous
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waylay
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ambush, accost unexpectantly
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restive
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resistant, unmanageable
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sanctimonious
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feigning devotion, unpious
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sloth
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idle, indolent, lazy
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subaltern
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subordinate, lower in rank
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tacit
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implied, silent, unspoken
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ubiquitous
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being everywhere, omnipresent
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viable
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living, practical, usable
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corroborate
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confirm
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palpable
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felt, perceived by senses
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bolster
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a pillow
support |
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resolute
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firmly determined
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contentious
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tending to argument or strife
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arbiter
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judge
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garrulous
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talkative
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manifest
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apparent, obvious, provide evidence for
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incipient
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partly in existence, improperly formed
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disinterested
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no self interest
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intransigent
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unsusceptible to persuasion
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lament
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mourn
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allusion
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indirect mention
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welter
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lie bathed in
a confused mass |
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inchoate
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just begun
incipient |
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taut
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tense, tidy
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panegyric
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lofty formal praise
tribute |
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improvident
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lacking foresight
neglecting to provide for future |
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saturnine
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in-humorous, bitter, scornful
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accreted
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to grow together, to adhere
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sinuous
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curvy
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coda
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conclusion (music)
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fulsome
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offensive to good taste
disgusting (also abundant) |
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propinquity
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nearness, affinity
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effluvium
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invisible exhalation,
odorous fumes |
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motility
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moving spontaneously
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abstruse
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recondite, difficult to understand, esoteric
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reprobate
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depraved, wicked
to disapprove |
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pedagogue
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someone who educates
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evanescent
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vanish like vapor
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insolvent
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insufficient funds
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ribald
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humorously vulgar, abbusive
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imprudent
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not wise
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garnered(2)
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acquired
2- store grain |
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neophytes
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new participant
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ineluctable
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impossible to avoid
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untoward
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unfavorable
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vacuous
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empty, complacently foolish
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pundit
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scholar
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impudent
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casual disrespect
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brook
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to bear, tolerate
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