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42 Cards in this Set
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brougue
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a heave shoe often like a oxford(school shoe) with a nailed in sole
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usufruct
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the legal right to enjoy something
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brachiate
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to swing from arms
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grudging
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unwilling reluctant
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factious
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tending to be troublesome : unruly quarrelsome
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etiquette
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the stuff you learn at cotillion
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omnibus
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relating, providing or containing many things at once
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bardolater
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a person who idolizes shaspeare
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adust
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scorched or burned
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nyctalopia
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cant see at night : night blindness
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pachydermatous
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insensitive tough calloused
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skosh
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a little bit a smidgen
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lanuginous
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covered with a small layer of soft downy hair
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hyperbole
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extravagation
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verbatim
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word for word
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quaff
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to drink deeply
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waff
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science sniffing
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foment
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to promote growth or deleopment
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instigate
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to urge or to provoke
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dissemble
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to give a false or misleading apperance to conceal the truth or the nature of
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jargon
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the language to a perticular trade or profession
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debunk
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to expose a claim or assertion
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reticent
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reluctant or restrained to speak
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prevalent
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a wide spread occurrence
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conform
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to comply with prevsiling standards
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detrimental
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loss damage disadvantage or injury
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finicky
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difficult to please fussy
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juxtapose
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to place things side by side for comparison
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mitigate
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to make less severe
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laconic
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using a few words :concise
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hackneyed
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overdone: trite
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banal
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overused: trite
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picketed
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a person demonstrating as against a government's poices
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prosaic
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dull comonplace
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vapid
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lacking or having lost life flavor or sharpness
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mawkish
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slushy slopy sentimental weak emotionaly
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garrulous
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rambling about trivial manners
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covert
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concealed secret disguised
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fractious
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readily angered peevish
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tacit
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implied
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dilettante
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a person who takes up an art or activity just for fun
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firebrand
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a person that kindles strife or encourgages unrest an agitatior
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