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23 Cards in this Set
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Plethora
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Excess
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Pragmatic
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Practical as opposed to idealistic
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Precipitate
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To throw violently or bring about abruptly; lacking deliberation
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Prevaricate
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To lie or deviate from the truth
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Pristine
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Fresh and clean; uncorrupted
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Prodigal
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Lavish, wasteful
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Proliferate
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To increase in number quickly
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Propitiate
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To conciliate; to appease
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Propriety
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Correct behavior; obedience to rules and customs
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Prudence
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Wisdom, caution, or restraint
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Pungent
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Sharp and irritating to the senses
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Quiescent
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Motionless
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Rarefy
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To make thinner or sparser
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Repudiate
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To reject the validity of
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Reticent
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Silent, reserved
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Rhetoric
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Effective writing or speaking
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Satiate
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To satisfy fully or overindulge
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Soporific
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Causing sleep or lethargy
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Specious
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Deceptively attractive; seemingly plausible but fallacious
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Stigma
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A mark of shame or discredit
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Stolid
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Unemotional; lacking sensitivity
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Sublime
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Lofty or grand
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Tacit
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Done without using words
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