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20 Cards in this Set
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Abject
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Degraded; base, contemplate; cringing, servile; complete and unrelieved.
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Agnostic
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One who believes that nothing can be known about God; a skeptic; without faith, skeptical.
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Complicity
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Involvement in wrongdoing; the state of being an accomplice.
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Derelict
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Someone or something that is abandoned or neglected; left abandoned; neglectful of duty.
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Diatribe
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A bitter and prolonged verbal attack.
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Effigy
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A crude image of a despised person.
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Equity
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The state or quality of being just, fair, or impartial; fair and equal treatment; something that is fair; the money value of a property above and beyond any mortgage or other claim.
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Inane
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Silly, empty of meaning or value.
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Indictment
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The act of accusing; a formal accusation.
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Indubitable
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Certain, not to be doubted or denied.
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Intermittent
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Stopping and beginning again, sporadic.
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Moot
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Open to discussion and debate, unresolved; to bring up for discussion; a hypothetical law case argued by students.
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Motif
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A principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design.
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Neophyte
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A new convert, beginner, novice
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Perspicacity
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Keenness in observing and understanding.
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Plenary
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Complete in all aspects or essentials; absolute; attended by all qualified members
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Surveillance
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A watch kept over a person; careful, close, and disciplined observation
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Sylvan
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Pertaining to or characteristic of forests; living or located in a forest; woody, woody.
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Testy
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Easily irritated; characterized by impatience and exasperation.
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Travesty
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A grotesque or grossly inferior imitation; a disguise, especially the clothing of the opposite sex; to ridicule by imitating in a broad or burlesque fashion.
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