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20 Cards in this Set
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Esoteric
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Understood by only a select few
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Eulogy
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High praise for a deceased person
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Euphemism
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Use of an indirect expression in place of one that is harsh, a less offensive term
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Evanescent
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Gradually disappearing; fleeting, vanishing
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Exacerbate
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To make a situation worse; to irritate, to aggravate a situation
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Exemplary
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Serving as a model, worth imitating
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Expedient
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Useful; advantageous; based on self-interest. When used as a noun it means "a means of bringing about a desired result."
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Expedite
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To make easy and quick; to speed up
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Expunge
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To erase; to remove completely, blot out
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Extol
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To praise highly, commend
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Peripheral
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External; incidental; tangential, relativiely unimportant
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Peruse
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To study; to read, pore over
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Philistine
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Narrow-minded; smugly conventional, boorish. When used as a noun it means "a dull often priggish person guided by material rather than intellectual or artistic values."
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Piety
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Devotion and reverence, especially to God and family, devoutness.
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Pique
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To hurt the feelings of or make resentful; to arouse or excite, provoke. When used as a noun it means "a temporary feeling of wounded vanity; a fit of resentment."
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Placate
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To soothe; to pacify, appease
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Placid
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Outwardly calm or composed; self-satisfied; peaceful, unruffled
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Plagiarize
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To take ideas or writings from someone else and present them as one's own; to use without giving credit, usurp
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Platitude
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A thought or remark that is dull, trite, flat, or weak, cliche
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Pompous
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Self-important; stately; magnificent; excessively ornate, arrogant
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