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35 Cards in this Set
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Fortuitous
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occuring by accident or chance
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Guile
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craft,cunning,deceitfulness
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Grandoise
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grand and impressive especially flashy or showy
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Relinquish
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to give up doing professing or intending to surrender give in
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Idiosyncrasy
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a behavioral quirk; a person idea about behavior different from others
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Emulate
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to attemp to equal or surpass; especially through imitation
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divulge
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to reveal
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dissonance
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lack of agreement between ideas.
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infamy
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having an evil reputation
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partition
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the divison of something into parts
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efficacious
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able to produce a desired effect
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Egalitarian
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aserting or promoting the belief in humor
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egregious
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obvious ,conspicuous, flagrant
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elusive
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hard to capture ,grasp or understand
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discrepancy
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a difference or variance between two or more things
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disproportonate
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imbalanced in regard to size number or degree
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disingenuous
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pretending o be candid simple of frank
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wither
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shriveled shrunken driedup
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disparity
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difference in quality or kind
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melancholy
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depression of spirits gloomy weary
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petulant
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ill humur iritable cranky
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embellish
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to beautify by adding ornaments to add fanciful or fictitious details to
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assuage
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to soothe to make less severe to satisfy ease lessen
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castigate
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to criticize harshly usually with the intention of correcting wrong doing
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deduce
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to come to a conclusion by reasoning from the evidence
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cajole
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to wheedle coax or persuade someone to do something they didn't want to
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durable
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long lasting
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atypical
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not typical abnormal
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eclectic
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drawn from many sources
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eerie
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weird strange
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lieu
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instead of in place of
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evoke
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to summon forth call to mind awaken produce suggest
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Lexicon
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a dictionary;vocab terms used in a partcular profession subject or style
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unbridled
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violent unbrounded unrestrained
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duress
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compulsion, restraint
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