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109 Cards in this Set
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Alacrity
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cheerful readiness, promptness, or willingness
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Amity
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friendship; peaceful harmony
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Assiduous
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constant; unremitting
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Averse
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having a strong feeling of opposition
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Calumny
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a false and malicious statement designed to injure the reputation of someone or something
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Bumptious
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offensively self-assertive
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Charlatan
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a person who pretends to more knowledge or skill than he or she possesses
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Circumspect
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watchful and discreet
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Collusion
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a secret agreement, esp. for fraudulent or treacherous purposes; conspiracy
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Complacent
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pleased, esp. with oneself or one's merits, advantages, situation
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Connive
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to cooperate secretly; conspire
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Consanguinity
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relationship by descent from a common ancestor
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Contrite
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caused by or showing sincere remorse
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Corollary
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a natural consequence or result
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Countenance
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to permit or tolerate
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Demur
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to make objection, esp. on the grounds of scruples
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Derelict
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a person abandoned by society
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Diffident
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lacking confidence in one's own ability
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Dilatory
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intended to cause delay, gain time, or defer decision
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Efface
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to wipe out; do away with; expunge
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Effete
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exhausted of vigor or energy
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Efficacious
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capable of having the desired result or effect; effective as a means, measure, remedy
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Effrontery
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shameless or impudent boldness
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Effusive
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unduly demonstrative; lacking reserve
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Epicure
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a person who cultivates a refined taste
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Equanimity
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mental or emotional stability or composure
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Equivocal
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deliberately ambiguous
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Erudite
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characterized by great knowledge
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Exigency
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the need, demand, or requirement intrinsic to a circumstance, condition
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Expatiate
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to enlarge in discourse or writing; be copious in description or discussion
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Expedient
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conducive to advantage or interest, as opposed to right
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Expiate
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to atone for; make amends or reparation for
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Felicitous
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well-suited for the occasion, as an action, manner, or expression; apt; appropriate
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Furtive
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by stealth; secret
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Gird
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to encircle or bind with a belt or band
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Ignominy
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disgrace; dishonor
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Implacable
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not to be appeased, mollified, or pacified
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Improvident
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lacking foresight; incautious; unwary
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Incipient
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beginning to exist or appear; in an initial stage
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Incorrigible
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bad beyond correction or reform
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Inculcate
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to implant by repeated statement or admonition
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Indigent
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lacking food, clothing, and other necessities of life because of poverty
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Ineffable
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ncapable of being expressed or described in words
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Insipid
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without distinctive, interesting, or stimulating qualities
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Inveigh
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o protest strongly or attack vehemently with words
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Inveigle
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to entice, lure, or ensnare by flattery or artful talk or inducements
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Inveterate
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settled or confirmed in a habit, practice, feeling
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Laconic
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using few words; expressing much in few words
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Levity
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lightness of mind, character, or behavior; lack of appropriate seriousness or earnestness
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Lugubrious
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mournful, dismal, or gloomy
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Lurid
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gruesome; horrible; revolting
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Medacious
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habitually telling lies
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Nascent
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beginning to exist or develop
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Nebulous
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hazy, vague, indistinct, or confused
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Obeisance
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a movement of the body expressing deep respect or deferential courtesy, as before a superior
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Obloquy
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censure, blame, or abusive language aimed at a person or thing
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Obsequious
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characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning
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Opprobrium
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the disgrace or the reproach incurred by conduct considered outrageously shameful
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Ostentation
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pretentious or conspicuous show, as of wealth or importance
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Peremptory
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leaving no opportunity for denial or refusal
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Perfunctory
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performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial
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Pernicious
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causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful
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Perspicacious
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having keen mental perception and understanding
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Pertinacity
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persistence
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Poignant
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keenly distressing to the feelings
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Predilection
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a tendency to think favorably of something in particular
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Prescient
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knowledge of things before they exist or happen
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Propinquity
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nearness in place; proximity
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Propitiate
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to make favorably inclined
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Propitious
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presenting favorable conditions
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Pugilistic
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warlike; or literally, like a boxer
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Punctilious
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strict or exact in the observance of the formalities or amenities of conduct or actions
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Pusillanimous
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lacking courage or resolution; cowardly
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Recalcitrant
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resisting authority or control
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Recumbent
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lying down; reclining
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Redolent
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suggestive; reminiscent
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Redoubtable
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something that is too be feared
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Respite
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a delay or cessation for a time
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Ribald
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vulgar or indecent in speech
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Rostrum
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any platform, stage, or the like, for public speaking
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Salient
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prominent or conspicuous
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Salubrious
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favorable to or promoting health
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Sanguine
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cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident
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Sardonic
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characterized by bitter or scornful derision
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Sartorial
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pertaining to clothing or style or manner of dress
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Sentience
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capacity for sensation or feeling
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Sibilance
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characterized by a hissing sound
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Sinecure
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extremely easy job
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Sinuous
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having many curves, bends, or turns
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Specious
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apparently good or right though lacking real merit
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Supercilious
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haughtily disdainful or contemptuous
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Surreptitious
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secret or unauthorized; clandestine
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Taciturn
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reserved in speech
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Temerity
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reckless boldness
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Trenchant
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sharp
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Truculent
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aggressively hostile; belligerent
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Turgid
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swollen; distended
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Ubiquitous
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existing or being everywhere; omnipresent
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Upbraid
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to find fault with or reproach severely
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Unwonted
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not customary or usual
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Vacillate
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to waver in mind or opinion
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Veracity
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habitual observance of truth in speech or statement; truthiness
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Vestiges
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A visible trace, evidence, or sign of something that once existed but exists or appears no more
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Vicarious
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performed, exercised, received, or suffered in place of another
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Virulent
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intensely noxious; biting speech
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Vitiate
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to impair or weaken the effectiveness of
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Vituperative
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to use or address with harsh or abusive language
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Voluble
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characterized by a ready and continuous flow of words
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Wanton
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sexually lawless or unrestrained
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