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13 Cards in this Set
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To anticipate and make unnecessary
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Obviate (v)
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To obstruct or block
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Occlude (v)
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Hidden, concealed, beyond comprehension
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Occult (adj)
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To hide
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Occult (v)
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Meddlesome, pushy in offering one's services where they are unwanted
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Officious (adj)
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Troubling, burdensome
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Onerous (adj)
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Disgrace, contempt, scorn
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Opprobrium (n)
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The act or state of swinging back and forth with a steady, uninterrupted rhythm
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Oscillation (n)
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to literally move back and forth and to move ack and forth between two ideas or positions
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Oscillate (v)
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Changed into bone; made rigidly conventional and unreceptive to change
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Ossified (adj)
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Seeming, appearing as such, professed
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Ostensible (adj)
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Characterized by or given to pretentiousness
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Ostentatious (adj)
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Presumptuously arrogant, overbearing, immoderate
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Overweening (adj)
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