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40 Cards in this Set
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Tryst
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To set up a meeting
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Disseminated
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Spread
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Obsolete
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Out of fashion
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Gibe
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Taunt
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Multiplicity
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In great numbers
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Dearth
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Shortage
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Antithesis
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Direct opposite
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Exacerbate
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To make worse
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Remnant
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Remains
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Gaffe
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Mistake
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Circumscribe
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Limited
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Defunct
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No longer working
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Query
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Question
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Precipitous
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Dangerously steep; causes something to happen too quickly
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Floundering
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Clumsily struggling
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Lucrative
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Profiting
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Proliferation
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Spread
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Ambivalence
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Mixed feelings
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Abridgment
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To cut short
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Serpentine
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Snakelike movement
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Mainstay
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Main support of something
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Supplanted
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Replaced
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Inundated
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Flooded
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Partisan
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Biased;prejudice
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Elitist
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A person who believes that an elite group should lead
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Populist
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Someone eho does something for the people
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Anarchist
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No government
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Demagogue
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a person, esp. an orator or political leader, who gains power and popularity by arousing the emotions, passions, and prejudices of the people
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Maverick
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Rebel
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Naysayer
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Pessimistic
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Stickler
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Picky
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Bungler
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Something that is done clumsily
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Ruffian
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Bully
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Salient
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Prominent
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Mundane
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Everyday life
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Cynical
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Distrust
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Prolific
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Produces a lot
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Prominent
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Well-known
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Irrelevant
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Not related
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Buoyed
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Lifted spirits
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