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56 Cards in this Set
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alloy
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to commingle
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brook
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to tolerate, endure
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essay
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to test or try
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meet
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fitting, proper
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pied
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multicolored
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quail
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to lose courage
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abjure
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to renounce or reject solemnly
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adumbrate
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to foreshadow vaguely
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anodyne
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something that calms or soothes pain
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apostate
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one who abandons long held religious beliefs
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apotheosis
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exalted example, model of excellence or perfection
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asperity
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severely, rigor, roughness
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asservate
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to aver, allege, or assert
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augury
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omen, portent
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calumniate
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to slander, make a false accusation
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captious
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disposed to point out trivial faults
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cavil
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to find fault with good reason
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celerity
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speed, alacrity
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contumacious
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disobedient, rebellious
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descry
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to discriminate or discern
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desuetude
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disuse
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desultory
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random, aimless
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diaphonous
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transparent, gauzy
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encomium
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glowing and enthusiastic praise
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execrate
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to declare to be evil
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exegesis
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critical examination, explication
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expiate
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to atone or make amends for
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extirpate
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to root up, destroy
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gainsay
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to deny, dispute, oppose
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heterodox
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unorthodox, heretical
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imbroglio
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difficult or embarrassing situation
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insouciant
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unconcerned, carefree
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inveterate
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deeply rooted, ingrained
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jejune
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childish, vapid, uninteresting
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lubricious
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lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery
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meretricious
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cheap, gaudy, tawdry
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minatory
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menacing, threatening
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nonplussed
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baffled, bewildered
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ossified
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made more rigid, turned to bone
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palliate
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to make something less serious
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panegyric
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formal praise, eulogy
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pellucid
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transparent, easy to understand, limpid
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peroration
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the concluding part of a speech
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plangent
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pounding, thundering, resounding
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propitiate
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to win over, appease
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puissance
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power, strength
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pusillanimous
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cowardly, craven
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remonstrate
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to protest, object
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salacious
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lustful, lascivious, bawdy
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saturnine
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dark, gloomy
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sententious
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aphoristic or moralistic, epigrammatic
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stygian
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gloomy, dark
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tendentious
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biased
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tyro
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novice, greenhorn
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vitiate
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to corrupt, debase
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voluble
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fluent, verbal
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