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30 Cards in this Set
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Cardinal
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Of Prime Importance
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Caustic
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Capable of burning, corroding or destroying living tissue
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Dogma
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System of principles
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Meticulous
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taking or showing extreme care about minute details
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Citadel
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any strongly fortified place
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contravene
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to come or be in conflict with
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Aberration
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the act of departing from the right, normal or usual course
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Exonerate
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free from guilt or blame
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Alacrity
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cheerful readiness, promptness or willingness
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Hoary
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ancient or venerable
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Gothic
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Barbarous or crude, Medieval art style or N. Europe
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Rhetoric
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the undue use of exaggeration or display
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grave
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serious or solemn
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Ignominious
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marked by or attended with disgrace
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Peremptory
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leaving no opportunity for denial or refusal
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Harried
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To harass, annoy or prove a nuisance to by
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Dilemma
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A situatuion requiring a choice between equally undesirable alternatives
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Hierarchy
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Any system of persons or things ranked one above another
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Fallacious
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Logically unsound
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Discretion
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The power or right to decide or act according to one's own judgment
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Martinets
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A strict disciplinarian; someone who stubbornly adheres to methods or rules
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Paradigm
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A set of forms all of which contain a particular elements
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Banausic
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Serving utilitarian purposes only
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Poltroon
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A wretched coward
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Pietistic
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intensity of religious devotion or feeling
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Platitude
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a flat, dull or trite remark
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Somnolence
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Sleepy
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Deja Vu
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The illusion of having previously experienced something actually being encountered for the first time
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Atavistic
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REverting to or suggesting the characteristics of a remote ancestor or primitive type
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Anachronism
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Something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time
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