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60 Cards in this Set
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Coterie
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clique
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Debauch
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to corrupt
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Diurnal
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Daily, routine
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Ductile
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compliant, moldable
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Exiguous
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meager, small
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Fetish
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anything to which one is irrartionally devoted
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Foible
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frailty in character
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Fortitude
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strength to bear pain calmly, resiliancy
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Grandiloquent
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popmous, bombastic words
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Imbrolio
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confusing situation
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Impolitic
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unwise, inexpedient
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Incipient
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beginning stages, inchoate
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ingenuous
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artless, simple, naive
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innuendo
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remark suggesting something derogatory
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Irascible
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quick-tempered
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Limpid
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perfectly clear
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Malevolent
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wishing harm, malicious
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Metamorphosis
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change in character
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Niggardly
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stingy, miserly
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Nuance
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variation in meaning
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Officious
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meddlesome, offering unneeded advice
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Organic
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inherent, inborn
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Periphery
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surrounding area, outskirts
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Piquant
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provacative, pungent, agreeable interest
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plethora
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abundance
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prognosticate
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predict
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pulchritude
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physical beauty
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rapacious
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taking by force, predatory
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Reconnoiter
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survey enemy, spy
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reprobation
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disapproval, rejection, censure
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Salubrious
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wholesome, promoting health
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schism
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division
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Somnolent
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sleepy
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stratagem
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trick, scheme, strategy
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supplication
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petition, prayer
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traumatic
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shocking
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umbrage
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offense, resentment
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vacuity
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emptiness of mind, stupid
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verile
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having manly strength, forceful
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voracious
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greedy and eager, insatiable
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acerbity
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sharpness, bitterness
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aggrandize
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to make greater, richer
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aphorism
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maxim, short statement of principle
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austere
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forbidding, severe look
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broach
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suggest, introduce
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circumvent
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elude, go around
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complacent
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satisfied, smug
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contumacious
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disobedient, rebellious
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covenant
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promise, agreement
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dolorous
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mournful
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duress
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use of threats, compulsion
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extraneous
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irrelevant
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extricate
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set free, release
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finical
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too particular, fastidioud, fussy
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foment
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stir trouble, instigate
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fortuitous
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happening of chance
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fulmination
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explosive shouts, denunciations
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haitus
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lacuna, gap, opening
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immutable
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never-changing
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impugn
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to assail by arguement, challenge as false
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