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20 Cards in this Set
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Austere
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Severe or stern, simple, plain, harsh or sour
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Beneficent
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Performing acts of kindness or charity; converring benefits, doing good
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Cadaverous
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Pale, gaunt resembling a corpse
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Concoct
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To prepare by combining ingredients make up (as a dish), devise, invent
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Crass
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Coarse, unfeeling, stupid
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Debase
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To lower in character, quality or value; to degrade, adulterate; to cause to deteriorate
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Desecrate
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To commit sacrilege upon, treat irreverently; to contaminate, pollute
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Disconcert
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To confuse; to disturb the composure of
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Grandiose
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grand in an impressive or stately way; marked by pompous affectation or grandeur, exaggerated
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Inconsequential
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Trifling, unimportant
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Acrimonious
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Stinging, bitter in temper or tone
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Bovine
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Resembling a cow or an ox, sluggish, unresponsive
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Consternation
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dismay, confusion
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Corpulent
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Fat; having a large, bulky body
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Disavow
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To deny responsibility for or connection with
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Dispassionate
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Impartial; calm, free from emotion
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Dissension
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Disagreement, sharp difference of opinion
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Dissipate
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To cause to disappear, to scatter, dispel; to spend foolishly, squander; to be extravagant in pursuit of pleasure
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Expurgate
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To remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse, purify
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Gauntlet
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An armored or protected glove, a challenge, two lines of men armed with weapons with which to beat a person forced to run between them; an ordeal
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