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120 Cards in this Set
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"blight"
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"decay; disease; widespread death"
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"capitulate"
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"to surrender; to yield"
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"deference"
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"the act of yielding to someone else out of respect"
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"despot"
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"tyrant"
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"dilatory"
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"causing lateness; stalling"
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"heresy"
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"an opinion expressed in defiance of generally accepted ideas"
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"inane"
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"silly; insignificant"
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"ludicrous"
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"absurd; ridiculous"
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"mitigate"
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"to make less severe; mollify"
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"paltry"
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"worthless; insignificant
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"penchant"
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"a strong liking; attraction"
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"rampant"
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"unrestrained; widespread"
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"sardonic"
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"humorous
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"slough"
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"to discard; to cast off; to shed"
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"truculent"
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"aggressive; savage; cruel"
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"upbraid"
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"to criticize severely; to scold"
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"subjugate"
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"to take over; to enslave"
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"assuage"
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"to relieve; to ease; to pacify"
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"amity"
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"friendship"
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"conundrum"
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"riddle; mystery"
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"doleful"
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"extremely sad"
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"elated"
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"extremely happy; overjoyed"
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"esoteric"
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"known to
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"fastidious"
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"difficult to please"
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"reticent"
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"quiet; uncommunicative"
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"malediction"
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"evil speech; curse"
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"pithy"
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"to the point; concise"
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"platitude"
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"dull
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"hackneyed"
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"unoriginal; trite"
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"banal"
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"boring; trite; insipid"
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"sententious"
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"short and to the point; terse"
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"urchin"
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"a playful or mischievous youngster; scamp"
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"opportunist"
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"someone who takes advantage of the situation"
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"opine"
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"to hold or state an opinion"
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"kinetic"
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"in motion; active"
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"inscrutable"
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"mysterious"
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"indolent"
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"lazy"
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"harbor"
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"to provide shelter or refuge; to hide"
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"furtive"
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"sneaky; secretive"
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"ethereal"
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"heavenly; fine; delicately beautiful"
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"deprecate"
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"to disapprove; to belittle"
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"culpable"
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"guilty; blameworthy"
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"acquiescent"
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"reluctantly agreeable; compliant"
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"wax"
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"to grow gradually larger"
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"vacillate"
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"to move back and forth between choices; unable to decide"
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"unerring"
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"without making a mistake"
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"ubiquitous"
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"existing everywhere at the same time"
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"tenacious"
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"strong; persistent; determined to hold on"
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"spurious"
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"false; fake; misleading"
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"tantamount"
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"equal; comparable"
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"succor"
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"help; assistance; relief"
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"resign"
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"to give in; to acquiesce; to relinquish"
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"repudiate"
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"to disown; to reject"
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"perspicacity"
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"mental sharpness; keen insight; shrewdness"
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"petulance"
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"grouchiness"
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"obdurate"
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"stubborn; unyielding"
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"neophyte"
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"beginner; novice"
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"mellifluous"
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"smooth; sweetly flowing; sweet-sounding"
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"lugubrious"
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"mournful"
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"loquacious"
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"talkative"
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"loath"
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"reluctant; unwilling"
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"languish"
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"to lose energy or motivation; to become weak or depressed"
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"incredulous"
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"unwilling or unable to believe"
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"imbue"
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"to fill
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"hiatus"
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"gap; interruption; a pause"
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"fulminate"
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"to explode
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"fallacious"
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"false; misleading"
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"efface"
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"erase"
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"disparate"
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"different"
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"cupidity"
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"greed
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"convivial"
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"fond of parties; sociable"
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"bombast"
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"speech or writing intended to impress the audience; pompous"
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"adroit"
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"skillful in the use of hands
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"vacuous"
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"empty; stupid; purposeless"
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"undulate"
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"to move in a wavy manner"
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"tenuous"
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"thin; flimsy"
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"specious"
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"having a false or misleading appearance; seemingly true
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"seditious"
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"trying to incite a revolt against an authority figure"
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"salubrious"
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"promoting health"
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"redolent"
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"strongly scented; fragrant"
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"querulous"
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"constantly complaining"
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"precocious"
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"mature at a young age"
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"phlegmatic"
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"calm; unemotional"
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"parity"
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"equality or equivalence; balance among a group of rivals"
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"onerous"
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"burdensome; oppressive"
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"obviate"
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"to eliminate the need for something; to make unnecessary"
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"nefarious"
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"extremely evil"
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"malign"
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"to say evil or harmful things about someone; defame; vilify"
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"lofty"
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"of a great height; noble"
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"lament"
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"to express sorrow; complain"
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"laconic"
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"quiet; of few words; terse"
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"innocuous"
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"harmless; inoffensive"
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"indigent"
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"very poor"
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"impetuous"
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"making quick decisions and taking sudden action; hasty; impulsive"
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"desultory"
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"lacking a plan; aimless"
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"deprecate"
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"disapprove; belittle"
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"choler"
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"anger"
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"capacious"
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"large; roomy; spacious"
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"bequeath"
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"to leave behind or hand down through a will; transmit"
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"avarice"
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"greed"
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"affable"
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"friendly
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"heed"
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"to notice; pay attention to"
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"foment"
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"to stir into action; rouse; incite"
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"eulogize"
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"to praise highly; extol"
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"enervate"
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"to sap the strength; weaken"
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"jaunty"
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"lively; perky; sprightly"
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"acrimony"
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"words or behavior filled with harshness
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"partisan"
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"blindly devoted to a cause or organization"
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"obsequious"
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"behaving like a meek
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"jubilant"
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"filled with joy"
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"insipid"
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"dull; flat; without sparkle or flavor"
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"endemic"
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"native to a particular country or among a particular group"
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"distended"
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"swollen; extended"
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"bumptious"
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"pushy; obnoxiously self-assertive"
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"anathema"
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"a religious curse
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"zenith"
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"the highest point; apex"
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"tangent"
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"a comment that is off the main topic"
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"myriad"
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"a large number; many"
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"juxtapose"
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"to place side by side
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"cocophony"
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"a collection of sounds or voices that dont blend well; harshness of sound"
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