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25 Cards in this Set
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Acquiesce:
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to submit without protest, to agree, to consent (verb)
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Affinity:
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a natural liking or attraction to a person, idea, or thing
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Blasphemous:
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Irreverent, profane, containing false truths (adjective)
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Buttress:
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a built in support or prop, an encouragement (noun)
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Circumspect:
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watchful or discreet, prudent, vigilant (adjective)
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Corroboration:
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A strengthening or support by means of evidence or proof (noun)
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Deplete:
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To decrease the supply of, to diminish (verb)
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Despotic:
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autocrat, tyrannical, dictator like (adjective)
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Emaciated:
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wasted, thin, abnormally thin by means of starvation (adjective)
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Empirical:
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derived from an experiment, practical (adjective)
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Extraneous:
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foreign or not belonging to set of things, irrelevant (adjective)
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Fallow:
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inactive, not in use, in land: unseeded (adjective)
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Homogenous:
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all of the same kind or of same nature (adjective)
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Hyperbole:
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obvious exaggeration (noun)
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Incontrovertible:
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indisputable, not open to questioning (adjective)
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Irascible:
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easily provoked to anger, easily irritated, (adjective)
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Laconic:
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using few words, concise (adjective)
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Magnanimity:
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quality of being generous or courageous (noun)
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Obsequious:
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Being extremely attentive, servant like, obedient (adjective)
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Proliferation:
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a rapid or extreme increase of something
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Scrupulous:
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Extremely principled, precise or exact, and careful (adjective)
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Sublime:
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supreme or outstanding, complete or absolute, exalted (adjective)
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Surreptitious:
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done in a stealthy manner, furtive, secret (adjective)
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Veracity:
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the correctness or accuracy of a statement (noun)
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Zeal:
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to have great desire to do something, fervor (noun)
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