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78 Cards in this Set
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Abjure
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to renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid
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Adumbrate
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to foreshadow vaguely or intimate; to suggest or outline sketchily; to obscure or overshadow
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Anathema
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a solemn or ecclesiastical curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing
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Anodyne
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soothing, something that assuages or allays pain or comforts
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Apogee
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farthest or highest point; culmination; zenith
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Apostate
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one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions
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Apotheosis
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deification, glorification to godliness, an exalted example, a model of excellence or perfection
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Asperity
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severity, rigor; roughness, harshness; acrimony, irritability
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Asseverate
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to aver, allege, assert
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Assiduous
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diligent; hardworking; sedulous
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Augury
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omen, portent
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Bellicose
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belligerent, pugnacious, warlike
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Calumniate
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to slander, make a false accusation; calumny means slander, aspersion
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Captious
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disposed to point out trivial faults, calculated to confuse or entrap in argument
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Cavil
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to find fault without good reason
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Celerity
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speed, alacrity; think accelerate
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Chimera
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an illusion; originally, an imaginary fire-breathing she-monster
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Contumacious
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insubordinate, rebellious; contumely means insult, scorn, spersion
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Debacle
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rout, fiasco, completely failure
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Denouement
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an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot
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Descry
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to discriminate or discern
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Desuetude
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disuse: After years of desuetude, my French skills were finally put to use.
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Desultory
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random; aimless; marked by lack of plan or purpose
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Diaphanous
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transparent, gauzy
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Diffident
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reserved, shy, unassuming; lacking in self-confidence
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Dirge
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a song of grief or lamentation
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Encomium
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glowing and enthusiastic praise; panegyric, tribute, eulogy
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Eschew
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to shun or avoid
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Excoriate
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to censure scathingly, to upbraid
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Execrate
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denounce, feel loathing for, curse, declare to be evil
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Exegesis
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critical examination, explication
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Expiate
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to atone or make amends for
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Extirpate
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to destroy, exterminate, cut out, exscind
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Fatuous
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silly, inanely foolish
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Fractious
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quarrelsome, rebellious, unruly, refractory, irritable
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Gainsay
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to deny, dispute, contradict, oppose
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Heterodox
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unorthodox, heretical, iconoclastic
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Imbroglio
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difficult or embarrassing situation
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Indefatigable
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not easily exhaustible; tireless, dogged
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Ineluctable
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certain, inevitable
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Inimitable
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one of a kind, peerless
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Insouciant
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unconcerned, carefree, heeless
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Inveterate
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deep rooted, ingrained, habitual
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Jejune
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vapid, uninteresting, nugatory; childish, immature, puerile
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Lubricious
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lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery
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Mendicant
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a beggar, supplicant
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Meretricious
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cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy, showy: attracting by false show
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Miniatory
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menacing, threatening
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Nadir
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low point, perigee
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Nonplussed
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baffled, bewildered, at a loss for what to do or think
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Obstreperous
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noisily or stubbornly defiant, aggressively boisterous
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Ossified
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tending to become more rigid, conventional, sterile, and reactionary with age; literally, turned into bone
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Palliate
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to make something seem less serious, to gloss over,, to make less severe or intense
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Panegyric
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formal praise, eulogy, enconium
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Parsimonious
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cheap, miserly
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Pellucid
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transparent, easy to understand, limpid
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Peroration
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the concluding part of a speech; flowery, rhetorical speech
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Plangent
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pounding, thundering, resounding
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Prolix
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long-winded, verbose
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Propitiate
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to appease; to conciliate
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Puerile
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childish, immature, jejune, nugatory
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Puissance
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power, strength
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Pusillanimous
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cowardly, craven
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Remonstrate
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to protest, object
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Sagacious
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having sound judgment; perceptive; wise, like a sage
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Salacious
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lustful, lascivious, bawdy
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Salutary
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remedial, wholesome, causing improvement
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Sanguine
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cheerful, confident, optimistic
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Saturnine
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gloomy, dark, sullen, morose
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Sententious
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aphorisic or morallistic; epigrammatic; tending to moralize excessively
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Stentorian
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extremely loud and powerful
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Stygian
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gloomy, dark
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Sycophant
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toady, servile, self-seeking flatterer; parasite
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Tendentious
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biased; showing marked tendencies
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Timorous
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timid, fearful, diffident
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Tyro
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novice, greenhorn, rank amateur
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Vitiate
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to corrupt, debase, spoil, make ineffective
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Voluble
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fluent, verbal, having easy use of spoken language
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