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21 Cards in this Set
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Tenacious
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Persistent
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Demeritorious
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Punishable
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Mitigate
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To lessen
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Proliferate
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To increase
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Jocose
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Characterized by a joking humorous manner
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Macabre
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Ghastly or horrifying
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Timorous
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Cowardly, fearful
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Affable
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Friendly, easygoing
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Adulate
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To show excessive admiration
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Veneration
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Extreme devotion and caring
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Occult
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Mystical
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Whet
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To sharpen
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Zephyr
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Small breeze
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Blockade
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Closing off a place or thing
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Colloquial
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Informal use of language
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Esoteric
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Hard to understand
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Datum
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A premise, starting point, or given fact
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Contingency
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Possibility of happening
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Gesticulate
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To make use of gestures
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Elucidate
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To make lucid or clear
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Jejune
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Juvenile, childish, immature
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