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14 Cards in this Set
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perfidy
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intentional breach of faith; treachery
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enervate
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to weaken; to reduce in vitality
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tenuous
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having little substance or strength; flimsy; weak
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squalid
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sordid; wretched and dirty as from neglect
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soporific
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causing drowsiness; tending to induce sleep
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infelicitous
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unfortunate; inappropriate
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pernicious
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extremely harmful; potentially causing death
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obdurate
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unyielding; hardhearted; intractable
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mendacity
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the condition of being untruthful; dishonesty
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specious
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seeming true, but actually being fallacious; misleadingly attractive
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onerous
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troubling; burdensome
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prevaricate
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to deliberately avoid the truth; to mislead
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vituperate
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to use harsh condemnatory language; to abuse or censure severely or abusively; berate
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perfunctory
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cursory; done without care or interest
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