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60 Cards in this Set
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Abeyance |
Temporary inactivity |
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Accusatory |
Accusing |
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Affectation |
False appearance |
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Assuage |
To make wilder |
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Bourgeoisie |
Middle class |
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Capacious |
Calabale of holding a lot |
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Causation |
Act of causing |
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Clandestine |
Secretive |
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Conductive |
Helpful |
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Diabolic |
Qualities of the devil |
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Doxcology |
Hymn praise |
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Effluvium |
Invisible, noxious vapour |
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Felicitous |
Well suited |
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Forlorn |
Desolate, dreary |
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Immitigable |
Cannot be softened |
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Impugn |
To challenge as false |
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Inimitable |
Can't imitate |
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Irrevocable |
Not being recalled |
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Licentuous |
Sexually unrestrained |
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Meritocracy |
Class of people working their own way |
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Perambulate |
To walk through |
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Periphrastic |
Unnecessary wordy |
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Petulant |
Impatient irritation |
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Prevaricate |
To speak falsely |
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Quotidian |
Daily, ordinary |
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Replete |
Abundantly supplied |
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Repudiate |
To reject |
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Retrograde |
Moving backward |
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Sacrosanct |
Sacred |
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Seraphic |
Angelic |
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Superannuate |
To retire because of age |
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Torsion |
Act of twisting |
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Vitrify |
To turn to glass |
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Welter |
To have like waves |
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Bucolic |
Pertains to rustic life |
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Unctuous |
Excessively pious |
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Astringent |
Sour, bitter in taste |
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Milieu |
Environment, surroundings |
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Abrogate |
To abolish |
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Adduce |
To bring forward |
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Auspucious |
Promising success |
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Candescent |
Glowing |
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Carbonize |
Cover with carbon |
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Compulsory |
Required, mandatory |
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Compunction |
Remorse |
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Deviate |
Turn aside |
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Dogmatic |
Asserting church tenents dictorally |
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Effervescent |
Lively |
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Emaciate |
Gradually wasting away |
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Epigrammatic |
Terse, ingenious on exoression, witty |
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Evanescent |
Fleeting |
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Extemporaneous |
Impromptu |
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Formidable |
Feared or dreaded |
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Fortitude |
Patient courage |
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Homologous |
Same origin |
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Imminence |
Something about to happen |
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Indolent |
Lazy |
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Infrlicitous |
Inappropriate |
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Ingratiate |
In favour of others |
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Juggernaut |
Overpowering force |