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29 Cards in this Set
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alacrity
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eager and enthusiastic willingness
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fulminate
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to loudly attack or denounce
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perfidy
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intentional breach of faith/treachery
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prevaricate
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to deliberately avoid the truth; to mislead
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truculent
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fierce and cruel; eager to fight
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ascetic
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one who practices rigid self-denial; esp. an act of religious devotion
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halcyon
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calm and peaceful
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recalcitrant
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obstinately defiant of authority; difficult to manage
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phlegmatic
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calm; sluggish; unemotional
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probity
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adherence to highest principles; complete and confirmed integrity; uprightness
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prosaic
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dull; lacking in imagination
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recondite
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hidden; concealed; difficult to understand; obscure
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sedulous
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diligent; persistent; hard-working
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brook
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to tolerate, endure, countenance
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essay
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to test or try; attempt, experiment
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fell
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inhumanly cruel (adj)
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meet
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fitting, proper (adj)
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nice
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exacting, fastidious, extremely precise (adj)
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quail
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to lose courage, to turn frightened
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apotheosis
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deification, glorification to godliness, an exalted example, a model of excellence or perfection
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asperity
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severity, rigor, roughness, harshness, irritability
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asseverate
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to aver, allege, assert
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assiduous
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diligent, hardworking, sedulous
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cavil
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to find fault without good reason
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desuetude
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to fall into disuse
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sententious
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aphoristic or moralistic; epigrammatic; tending to moralize excessively
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tendentious
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biased; showing marked tendencies
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vitiate
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to corrupt, debase, spoil, make ineffective
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voluble
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fluent, verbal, having easy use of spoken language
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