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89 Cards in this Set
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Pugilist
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Someone who fights with his fists
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Doyenne
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A woman who is a senior member of a group
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Consigliere
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Counselor or advisor especially to mafia bosses
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Potentate
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A ruler who is unconstrained by law
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Sacerdotal
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Associated with priesthood or priests
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Discursive
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Digressing from subject to subject
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Puckish
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Naughtily or annoyingly playful
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Forsake
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Leave in the lurch
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Tribulation
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Catastrophic event
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Anachronism
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Artifact that belongs to another time
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Truculence
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Obsterperous and defiant aggressiveness
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Braggadocio
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Vain and empty boasting
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Obsterperous
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Noisy and difficult to control
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Latitude
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Scope for freedom of action or thought
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Ominous
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Presaging ill fortune
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Wily
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Crafty; marked by a skill in deception
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Flippant |
Disrespectful, facetious, nonchalant, insouciant |
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Coalesce
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Fuse or cause to grow together
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Squelch
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Suppress
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Effervescent
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Bubbly and lively
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Aplomb |
Self confidence or assurance, sangfroid |
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Modicum
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A little bit of something
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Supercilious
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Arrogant and patronizing
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Subterfuge |
Deceit used to achieve goals, chicanery |
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Polemical |
Critical, Involving dispute or controversy |
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Augury |
An event that is experienced as indicating important things to come, omen, portend |
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Tropes
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Language used in a figurative sense
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Apotheosis |
Model of excellence or perfection of a kind, paragon, exemplar, archetype |
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Vicissitude
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Change in fortunes usually for the worse
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Obsequious |
Attentive in an ingratiating manner, sycophantic, fawn, kowtower, cajole |
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Versimilitude |
Realism, appearance of truth |
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Incendiary
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Combustible
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Perfunctory |
Hasty, without attention to detail, fleeting, foolhardy, precipitous, impetuous |
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Persnickety
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Fastidious; overly meticulous
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Sartorial
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Relating to clothes or tailoring
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Canard
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Deliberate and misleading fabrication
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Halcyon
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Calm and pleasant
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Repast
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Meal
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Umbrage
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Feeling of anger; dander
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Inchoate
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Imperfectly formed
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Gambit
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A maneuver in a game or conversation
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Agog
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Eager, curious
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Temerity
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Intrepid, fearless
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Denouement
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Outcome; final resolution
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Hewing
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Strike with an axe, cut
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Fleeting
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Lasting for a short time; ephemeral
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Self-effacing |
Reluctant to draw attention to yourself, shy, timorous |
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Loath
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Unwilling or reluctant
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Benighted |
Lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture, philistine |
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Disheveled
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Disorderly
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Stilted
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Artificially formal
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Undergrid
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Make secure or lend moral support to
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Affectation
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Behavior or speech that is artificial; pretentious
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Camaraderie
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Mutual trust and friendship among people who spend a lot time together
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Ineffable
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To great or extreme to be expressed
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Numinous
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Other worldly, having a strong spiritual quality
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Portend |
Presage, be an indication of something to come, augur, omen |
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Supplication
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Asking or begging humbly; entreaty
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Solipsism
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Theory that the self is all that you know to exist
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Smother
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To cover or envelope or hide something
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Cavil
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Petty or unnecessary objections
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Contumely
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Rude expression intended to offend
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Brook |
Put up with something such as indiscipline, tolerate |
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Discountenance
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Look with disfavor or show disapproval
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Blanch
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Turn pale in fear
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Artifice |
A defensive often cunning maneuver, finagle |
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Furtive |
Surreptitious, taking pains to not be noticed, clandestine |
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Hackneyed |
Familiar through over use, trite, banal, cliche, platitude |
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Petulant |
Bad tempered, easily annoyed |
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Provincial |
Limited perspective, unsophisticated |
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Apocryphal |
Questionable authenticity |
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Ostentatious |
Intended to attract notice, noisy and vulgar |
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Loquacious |
Talkative, garrulous |
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Inveterate |
Habitual |
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Choleric |
Easily angered, irritable, fractious, petulant, bilious, splenetic |
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Overweening |
Arrogant, presumptuous, haughty, supercilious, scornful, cavalier, lofty, Imperious, contemptuous, peremptory, sardonic |
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Peremptory |
Bossy, brusque, demanding immediate attention.. Imperious |
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Punctilious |
Fastidious, assiduous, scrupulous, sedulous |
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Impetuous |
Foolhardy, Hasty, precipitous |
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Doleful |
Extremely sad, forlorn, lahcrymose, lugubrious, melancholy, saturnine |
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Atavism |
Relapse, return to former state, throwback |
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Dissolution |
Debauchery, depravity, turpitude, lechery, dissipation, excessive indulgence in sex, alcohol, drugs, lascivious |
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Autodidact |
Self-taught, without a teacher |
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Beguile |
Charm or entice someone deceptively |
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Progeny |
Descendant or offspring of a plant or animal |
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Callow |
Verdant, Tyro, young and inexperienced |
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Noisome |
Bad smell, malodorous |
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Indigent |
Poor, penurious, impecunious |
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Prodigal |
Waste money extravagantly, profligate, dissipate |
