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54 Cards in this Set
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Profligate
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immorally wasteful
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Surfeit
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an excess
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Capacious
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able to contain or hold much
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Captious
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critically faultfinding
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Inception
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commencement; beginning; origin
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Incipient
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beginning to appear or be noticed
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Municipal
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relating to local government
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aquiline
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resembling or relating to eagles; curved
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bovine
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resembling a cow; stolid
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ewe
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a female sheep, esp. when full grown
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fauna
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animals as a group, esp, of a specified region or time
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foal
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a young horse, esp. under one year old
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mare
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a female horse
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bungle
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to handle badly; to botch or mess up
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calumny
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a false and malicious statement
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crass
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dull-witted; unrefined
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denouement
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conclusion; resolution; the falling action of a story after its climax
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dirge
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slow, sad music, esp. a funeral hymn
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disabuse
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to free from error or falsehood
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dour
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stern and humorless; silently illhumored
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dregs
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the worst part; the sediment in a liquid
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emaciated
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made thin unnaturally; abnormally thin due to starvation
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exhume
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to dig up out of the ground
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furtive
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characterized by secretive behavior
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glean
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to gather bit by bit
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immaculate
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perfectly clean
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impertinent
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rude
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incarcerate
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to restrict by imprisonment; to keep in prison
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irk
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to irritate or be wearisome
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malleable
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able to be pounded; capable of being molded; adaptable
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martinent
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one who is strict in discipline
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mogul
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a rich or powerfull person
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morose
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sour tempered and inclined to be silent
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obstreperous
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noisly and stubbornly defiant
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ornate
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excessively decorated
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paroxysm
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a sudden convultion or outburst; a fit
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sadistic
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getting pleasure from inflicting physical or psychological pain
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sanction
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to give official approval
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savant
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well-educated person; a scholar
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shambles
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utter disorder
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squalid
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having a dirty or lowly appearance
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sullen
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showing silent anger and unwillingness to be pleasant to people
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sybarite
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one devoted to luxury
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unseemly
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not decent or proper
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venerable
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worthy of honor and respect by reason of dignity, age, etc.
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Intrinsic
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relating to the essential nature of a something
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Enigma
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A perplexing, usually ambiguous puzzle
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Specious
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seeming to be truthful on the surface, but actually false
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suffuse
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to spead through or over
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ascetic
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self-denying
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petulant
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impatient or irratable
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altruistic
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unselfish; benevolent; caring more for others than oneself
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Circumspect
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showing discretion and careful judgement
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Repudiate
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to reject as invalid or untrue
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