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60 Cards in this Set
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Adventitious
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Accidental
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Aesthetic
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Pertaining to beauty
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Affinity
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An attraction to
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Affluence
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Wealth; Richness
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Ambiguous
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Open to more than one interpretation
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Beguile`
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Deceive; Charm
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Beseige
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Overwhelm and attack
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Blanch
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Whiten; make pale
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Blandishment
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Flattery
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Bona Fide
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In good faith
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Bowdlerize
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Remove offensive passages from a play, or novel
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Cajole
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Coax, to persuade
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Carcinogen
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Causing Cancer
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Caveat
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A warning
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Celibate
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Unmarried; Abstaining from sex
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Chagrin
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Embarassment
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Debauchery
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Corruption
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Demeanor
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Behavior
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Despicable
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Contemptible; hateful
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Ebullient
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Enthusiastic
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Eclectic
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Various Sources
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Egregious
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Remarkably Bad
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Elegy
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A sad or mournful poem
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Emendation
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A correction
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Empirical
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Based on practical experience rather than theory
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Ennui
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Boredom
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Fatuous
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Foolish; Inane
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Ferret
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A small animal of the weasel family; to search for and drive out
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Fiscal
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Pertaining to finances
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Glower
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To stare angrily at
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Grotesque
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Absured; Distorted
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Gumption
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Courage; Initiative
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Hector
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To bully or pestor
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Hoi Polli
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The common people; the masses
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Hubris
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Excessive pride
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Hybrid
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Anything of mixed origin
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Immutable
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Fixed; Unchangeable
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Imperious
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Domineering; Haughty
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Impinge
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To strike; to encroach
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Kismet
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Destiny; Fate; Fortune
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Labyrinth
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A maze
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Languid
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Sluggish
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Libertine
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One who leads and immoral life
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Malleable
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Easily shaped or transformed
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Meretricious
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Attractive in a cheap, flashy way
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Nebulous
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Hazy, vague, uncertain
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Obfuscate
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Confuse; Bewilder
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Obviate
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Prevent
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Offal
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Garbage; Waste parts
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Palliate
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To ease, lessen, soothe
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Panache
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Self-confidence
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Peccadillo
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Minor offense or misdeed
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Peruse
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To read carefully; scrutinize
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Raiment
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Clothing; Garments
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Rakish
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Carefree; Jaunty
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Rectify
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To correct or make right
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Regale
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Delight with something pleasing
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Sacrosanct
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Extremely holy
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Shard
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A fragment
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Sibilant
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A hissing sound
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