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167 Cards in this Set
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Cartography
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Science or art of making maps
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Condone
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To overlook, pardon, or disregard
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Redress
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Relief from wrong or injury
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Rejoinder
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Response; retort
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Castigate
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To punish or criticize harshly
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Endemic
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Belomging to a particular area; inherent
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Garner
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To gather and store
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Inexorable
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Inflexible; unyielding
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Ardor
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Intense and passionate feeling
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Lassitude
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A state of diminished energy
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Fecund
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Fertile; fruitful; productive
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Loquacious
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Talkative
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Lionize
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To treat as a celebrity
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Machination
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Plot or scheme
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Ameliorate
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To make better; to improve
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Mannered
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Artificial of stilted in character
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Implacable
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Unable to be calmed down or made peaceful
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Oblique
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Indirect, evasive, misleading, devious
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Prattle
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Meaningless, foolish talk
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Prescient
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Having foresight
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Dissemble
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To present a false appearance; to disguise one's real intentions or character
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Stentorian
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Extremely loud
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Bifurcate
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To divide into two parts
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Contrite
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Deeply sorrowful and repentant for a wrong
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Attenuate
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To reduce in force of degree; to weaken
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Languid
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Lacking energy; indifferent; slow
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Sycophant
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A self-serving flatterer; a yes-man
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Dictum
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Authoritative statement
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Effigy
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A stuffed doll; likeness of a person
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Engender
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To produce, cause, or bring about
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Flag
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To decline in vigor, strength, of interest
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Stolid
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Unemotional; lacking sensitivity
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Turgid
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Swollen as from a fluid, bloated
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Demur
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To express doubts or objections
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Mar
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To damage; to deface; to spoil
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Curmudgeon
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Cranky person, usually old
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Peccadillo
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Minor sin or offense
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Tyro
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Beginner, novice
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Upbraid
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To scold sharply
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Misanthrope
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A person who dislikes others
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Variegated
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Varied; marked with different colors
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Sublime
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Lofty or grand
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Plebeian
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Crude or coarse; characteristics of commoners
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Missive
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A written note or letter
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Phlegmatic
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Calm and unemotional in temperament
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Caustic
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Biting in wit
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Sacrosanct
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Extremely sacred; beyond criticism
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Usury
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The practice of lending money at exorbitant rates
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Probity
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Complete honesty and integrity
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Erudite
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Learned; scholarly; bookish
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Maudlin
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Overly sentimental
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Obsequious
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Overly submissive and eager to please
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Ostensible
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Apparent
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Multifarious
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Diverse
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Specious
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Deceptively attractive; seemingly plausible but fallacious
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Verdant
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Green with vegetation; inexperienced
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Nominal
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Existing in name only; negligible
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Sanguine
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Ruddy; cheerfully optimistic
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Fetid
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Foul-smelling; putrid
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Levity
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An inappropriate lack of seriousness; overly casual
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Parley
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Discussion, usually between enemies
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Soporific
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Causing sleep or lethargy
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Vex
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To annoy; to irritate; to puzzle; to confuse
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Viscous
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Thick and adhesive, like a slow-flowing fluid
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Wanton
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Undisciplined; unrestrained; reckless
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Tacit
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Done without using words
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Dupe
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To deceive or a person who is easily deceived
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Opine
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To express an opinion
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Seraphic
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Angelic; sweet
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Sedation
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Behavior that promotes rebellion or civil disorder against the state
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Mollify
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To calm of make less severe
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Pedant
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Someone who shows off learning
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Raconteur
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A witty, skillful storyteller
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Winsome
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Charming; happily engaging
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Bevy
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Group
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Deride
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To speak of or treat with contempt; to mock
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Glower
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To glare; to state angrily an intensely
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Pithy
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Concise; succinct; to the point
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Anomaly
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Deviation from what is normal
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Analgesia
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A lessening of paint without loss of consciousness
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Ephemeral
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Lasting a short time
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Frenetic
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Frantic, frenzied
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Accretion
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A growth in size; an increase in amount
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Bolster
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To support; to prop up
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Decorous
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Proper; tasteful; socially correct
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Aggrandize
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Increase in power, influence, and reputation
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Florid
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Excessively decorated or embellished
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Garrulous
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Tending to talk a lot
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Livid
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Reddend with anger
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Malinger
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To evade responsibility by pretending to be ill
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Impetuous
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Quick to act without thinking
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Militite
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To operate against; to work against
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Blight
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To afflict; to destroy
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Politic
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Shrewd and practical in managing or dealing with things; diplomatic
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Precipitate
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Lacking deliberation
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Puerile
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Childish; immature; silly
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Pallid
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LackinG color or liveliness
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Umbrage
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Offense; resentment
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Libertine
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A free thinker, usually used disparagingly; one without moral restraint
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Wizend
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Shriveled; withered; wrinkled
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Xenophobia
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A fear or hatred of foragers or strangers
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Yoke
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To join together
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Paragon
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Model of excellence or perfection
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Onerous
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Troublesome and oppressive; burdensome
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Plastic
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Able to molded, altered, or bent
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Zealot
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Someone passionately devoted to a cause
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Salient
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Prominent; of notable significance
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Wan
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Sickly, pale
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Droll
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Amusing in a wry, subtle way
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Candid
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Impartial and honest in speech
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Talon
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Claw of an animal, especially a bird of prey
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August
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Dignified; grandiose
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Toady
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One who flatters in the hope of gaining favors
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Diatribe
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An abusive, condemnatory speech
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Guile
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Deceit, trickery
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Decorum
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Appropriateness of behavior or conduct; propriety
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Kinetic
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Relating to motion; characterized by movement
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Laconic
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Using few words
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Lampoon
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To ridicule with satire
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Apocryphal
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Of questionable authority or authenticity
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Credulous
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Too trusting; gullible
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Dissonance
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A harsh and disagreeable combination, especially of sounds
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Gradation
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Process occuring by regular degrees or stages; variation in color
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Perspicacious
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Shrewd; astute; keen-witted
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Pugilism
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Boxing
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Quixotic
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Overly idealistic, impractical
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Sardonic
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Cynical; scornfully mocking
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Spartan
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Hihgly self-disciplined; frugal; austere
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Surfeit
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Excessive amount
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Desiccate
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To dry out thoroughly
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Neologism
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New word or expression
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Distend
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To swell; to inflate; to bloat
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Doctrinaire
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Rigidy devoted to theories without regard for practicality; dogmatic
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Fortuitous
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Happeninf by chance, fortune
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Inter
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To bury
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Syncopation
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Temporsy irregularity in musical rythm
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Ebullient
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Exhilarated, full of enthusiasm and high spirits
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Polygot
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A speaker of many languages
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Torpor
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Extreme mental and physical sluggishness
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Forestall
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To prevent or delay; to anticipate
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Idiosyncrasy
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Peculiarity of temperament; eccentrically
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Blithe
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Joyful; cheerful; without appropriate thought
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Lumber
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To move slowly and awkwardly
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Trenchant
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Acute, sharp, incisive; forceful, effective
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Apostate
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One who renounces a religious faith
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Cabal
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A secret groupnseeking to overturn something
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Cloying
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Sickly sweet; excessive
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Coffer
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Strongbox; large chest for money
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Efficacy
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Effectiveness
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Chauvinist
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Someone prejudiced in favor of a group to which he or she belongs
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Hoary
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Very old; whitish or grey from age
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Irascible
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Easily made angry
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Maelsrrom
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Whirpool; turmoil; agitted state of mind
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Penury
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An oppressive lack of resources (as money); severe poverty
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Pathogenic
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Causing disease
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Propriety
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The quality of behaving in a proper manner; obeying rules and customs
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Nadir
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Lowest point
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Mores
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Fixed customs or manners; moral attitudes
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Collusion
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Collaboration; complicity; conspiracy
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Ribald
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Humorous in a vulgar way
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Monastic
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Extremelh plain of secluded, as I'm a monastery
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Emulate
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To copy; to try to equal or excel
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Eclectic
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Selecint from or made up from a variety of sources
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Craven
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Lacking courage
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Iconoclast
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One who opposes established beliefs, customs, and institutions
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Ossify
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To change into bone; to become hardened or set a rigidly conventional pattern
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Cacophony
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Harsh, jarring noise
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