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20 Cards in this Set
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blissful, rendering or making blessed.
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Beatific
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a creature of enormous size, power or appearance.
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Behemoth
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anything designed to flatter or coax, sweet talk, apple-polishing.
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Blandishment
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harsh-sounding, raucous, discordant, dissonant
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Cacophonous
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trickery, deceptive practices or tactics, double-dealing
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Chicanery
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to give over to another's care, charge or control; to entrust, deliver; to set apart for a special use.
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Consign
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a highly successful stroke, masterstroke, tour de force, act, plan or stratagem; a sudden takeover of power or leadership.
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Coup
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a mild or inoffensive expression used in place of a harsh or unpleasant one; a substitute.
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Euphemism
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feverish; pertaining to or marked by fever; frenetic
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Febrile
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to deny, contradict, controvert, to dispute, oppose
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Gainsay
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about to happen, threatening
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Imminent
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natural, inborn, inherent, built-in
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Innate
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unwilling, reluctant, disinclined
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Loath
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clear, evident to the eyes or mind; to show plainly, exhibit, a list of cargo and/or passengers
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Manifest
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small or trivial details, trifling matters
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Minutiae
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a suspension of activity; an official waiting period; an authorized period of delay
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Moratorium
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an alleged cure-all; a remedy or scheme of questionable effectiveness
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Nostrum
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one who is rejected by a social group or organization; outcast, untouchable
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Pariah
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not practical, lacking in realism; having the nature of a fantasy or dream; one given to far-fetched ideas; idealistic, impractical
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Visionary
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dry, shrunken and wrinkled, withered, shriveled
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Wizened
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