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30 Cards in this Set
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Abstruse
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adj; hard to understand
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Adage
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n; a clever saying
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Colloquial
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adj; conversational; informal in language
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Complicity
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n; participation in wrongdoing; act of being an accomplice
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Exacting
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adj; extremely demanding; difficult; requiring great skill or care
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Guile
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n; cunning; duplicity; artfulness; skillfulness in deception
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Hapless
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adj; unlucky
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Joie de vivre
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“Joy of Living,” deep and usually contagious enjoyment of life
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Noxious
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adj; harmful; offensive
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Replete
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adj; completely filled; abounding
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Sanguine
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adj; cheerful; optimistic; hopeful
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Solicitous
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adj; eager and attentive often to the point of hovering; anxiously caring or attentive.
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Transgress
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v; to violate (a law); to sin
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Urbane
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adj; poised; sophisticated; refined
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Wanton
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adj; malicious; unjustifiable; with no regard to what is right/just/humane; egregious
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Affectation
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n; unnatural or artificial behavior, usually intended to impress
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Cognizant
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adj; aware; conscious
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Cursory
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adj; going rapidly over something without noticing details; hasty; superficial EX: a cursory glance
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Euphemism
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n; a pleasant or inoffensive expression used in place of an unpleasant or offensive one
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Fatuous
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adj; foolish; silly; idiotic
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Foible
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n; a minor character flaw
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Grandiose
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adj; absurdly exaggerated
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Heresy
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n; any belief that is strongly opposed to established beliefs
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Integral
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adj; essential
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Malaise
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n; a feeling of depression; uneasiness, or queasiness
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Mea culpa
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"My fault,” “my bad”
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Paradox
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n; a true statement or phenomenon that nonetheless seems to contradict itself; an untrue statement or phenomenon that nonetheless seems logical
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Rhetoric
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n; the art of formal speaking or writing; inflated discourse
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Superfluous
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adj; extra; unnecessary; redundant
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Vexed
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adj; irritated; annoyed
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