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14 Cards in this Set
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conducive
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(adj) tending to promote or assist; helpful; expeditious
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dispassionate
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(adj) impartial; calm or free from emotion; imperturbable; unruffled
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dissipate
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(verb) to scatter, dispel, or disperse; disseminate; to spend foolishly or squander; to be extravagant in pursuit of pleasure
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bovine
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(adj) resembling a cow or ox; sluggish and unresponsive
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consternation
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(noun) dismay, confusion, or amazement; astonishment; trepidation
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elan
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(noun) an enthusiastic vigor and liveliness; high spirits; animation
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acrimonious
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(adj) stringing and bitter in temper or tone; sarcastic; caustic; vitriolic
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disavow
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(verb) to deny responsibility for or connection with; repudiate r disown; disclaim; recant
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corpulent
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(adj) fat; having a large, bulky body; obese; portly; rotund
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lumber
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(verb) to move heavily, clumsily, and often noisily
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magnum opus
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(noun) a person's greatest work or undertaking
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mammoth
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(noun) an extinct species of elephant with hairy skin and long tusks curving upward; hence, anything huge
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expurgate
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(verb) to remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; bowdlerize; to cleanse or purify
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dissension
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(noun) disagreement or sharp difference of opinion; friction; discord; strife
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