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28 Cards in this Set
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subsequent
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following in time, order or place
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circumvent
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to manage to get around, especially by ingenuity or strategem - to close the circuit
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indignation
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anger aroused by unjust, unworthy or mean
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antipathy
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opposition in feeling - enmity
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adulation
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excessive or slavish flattery or admiration
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austere
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stern or cold in appearance or manner - morally strict - giving little or no scope for pleasure
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auspicious
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favorable - attended by good
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copious
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yielding something abundantly - full of thought, information or matter - expressive in words - largly
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vapid
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lacking livliness, tang, brisk or force
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mendacity/mendacious
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the quality or state of being mendaacious/divergence from absolute truth (dishonest)
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quiescent
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latent, dormant
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scurrilous
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using or given to course language
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garish
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clothed in vivid colors, excessivly vivid
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consternation
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amazment or dismay that throws into confusion
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syncopated
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loss of blood flow - series of beats w/middle beat less - loss of pronunciation iterior letters
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decadent
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of or appealing to self-indulgence
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malevolent
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productive of harm or evil
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judiciously
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characterized by sound judgement
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nihilist
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belief that social conditions are so bad as to make destruction desireable - exsistence is useless
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noisome
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highly offensive to the senses especially smell; obnoxious & objectionable
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insufferable
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not to be endured
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lineaments
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a distinguishing characteristic or feature
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complicity
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association or participation in or as if in a wrongful act
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fratricide (n. fratricidal adj)
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one who kills his brother or sister or someone who is like a brother or sister, kinsmen, countrymen
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illusory
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deceptive
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demagogue
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leader who makes use of popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power
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truncated
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cut short
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agora
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a gathering place
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