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25 Cards in this Set
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Incipient
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beginning to exist or appear
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quelled
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suppressed, pacified, quieted
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mystic
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relating to religion, mystical
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lurid
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gruesome, ghastly, horrifying
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ebbing
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receding, declining
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obscure
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not clearly understood
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renunciation
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act of giving something up
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akin
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similar, related
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riveted
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fixed on, attached
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depraved
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morally corrupt
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intractable
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stubborn
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dormant
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asleep, inactive
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stolidly
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impassively, in a manner that has little emotion
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mitigating
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moderating, lessining
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inextricably
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intricately entangled
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unremitting
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persistent
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expediency
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doing what is selfish rather than what is right
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incited
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provoked, urged on
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fraught
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filled with charged with
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hapless
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unfortunate, unlucky
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vindictive
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vengeful, bitter
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belie
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contradict
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imputed
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credited, blamed
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wry
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ironic, dryly humerous
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dispassionate
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neutral, without passion
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