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15 Cards in this Set
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to repeal, cancel, declare null and void
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abrogate
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ANTONYMS - reafirm, renew, ratify
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(adj.) completely surrounding, encompassing
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ambient
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roughness, severity, bitterness or tartness
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asperity
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ANTONYMS - mildness, blandness, softness
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to make smoother or glossy by rubbing, polish
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burnish
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ANTONYMS - tarnish, dull, abrade
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a small group working in secret
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cabal
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delightful, highly enjoyable, deliciously flavored
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delectable
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ANTONYMS - repugnant, repulsive, distaseful
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to express mild disapproval, to belittle
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depreciate
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ANTONYMS - smile on, approve, countenance
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loose bits and pieces of material resulting from disintergration or wearing away, fragments that result from any destruction
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detritus
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overflowing with enthusiasm and excitement, boiling, bubbling
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ebullient
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ANTONYMS - gloomy, morose, sullen, apathetic, blase
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drawn from different sources; one whose beliefs are drawn fram various sources, pick and choose, selective
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eclectic
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ANTONYMS - uniform, monolithic
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limp, not firm, lacking vigor or effectiveness, soft, flabby
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flaccid
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ANTONYMS - hard, firm, solid
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having little or no money, penniless, impoverished, indigent
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impecunious
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ANTONYMS - affluent, wealthy, rich
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inflexible, beyond influence, relentless, unyielding, ineluctable, inescapable
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inexorable
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ANTONYMS - avoidable, yielding, pliant
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dying, on the way out, obsolescent
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moribund
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ANTONYMS - flourishing, thriving
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one who claims to reveal or influence the future through magic, especially communication with the dead, a magician or wizard, sorcerer, conjurer
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necromancer
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