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20 Cards in this Set
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n., craftiness, deceit, cunning
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Guile
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v., to offer; n., an offer
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Proffered
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adj., shapeless; of no particular form or type; not organized
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Amorphous
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n., proper action, speech and dress, good manners, polite behavior
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Decorum
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n., someone whose welfare or career is promoted by an influential person
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Proteges
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adj., naturally cheerful and hopeful, confident, having a ruddy complexion, optimistic, hopeful
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Sanguine
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n., badly written or trivial verse; often with a singsong rhythm
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Doggerel
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n., a person who practices unusual self-denial or discipline; often for religious reasons; adj., self-denying
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Ascetics
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adj., easily done, performing or working with ease, adroit, not sincere or profound, superficial
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Facile
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adj., angelic, of the highest order of angels
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Seraphic
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adj., implied or understood without being expressed openly, unspoken
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Tacit
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adj., not having individual characteristics; lacking in distinctive qualities, drab, hard to describe
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Nondescript
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adj., various, miscellaneous
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Sundry
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v., to win over with trickery or flattery, to entice, to coax with deceitful talk, to dupe
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Inveigle
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n., a belief or set of beliefs held to be true, especially by a church or other authority; a doctrine
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Dogma
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adj., given to the use of abusive, indecent, or vulgar language; foulmouthed
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Scurrilous
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adj., too economical, stingy, miserly
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Parsimonious
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v., to urge strongly, to advise or warn earnestly; to admonish
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Exhort
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n., a person or thing of little or no importance; something that does not exist or only exist in imagination
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Nonentities
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adj., loud and noisy, clamorous, demanding
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Vociferous
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