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49 Cards in this Set
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Inveigh
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To attack verbally, denounce, deprecate
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Saturnine
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Gloomy, dark, sullen, morose
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Galvanize
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To imbue with life or animation
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Gestation
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Pregnancy
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Illusory
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Deceiving or tending to deceive, as by false appearance
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Imperil
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To endanger
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Impiety
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Irreverence toward God
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Monetary
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Financial
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Nascent
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Emerging, coming into existence
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Salient
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Conspicuous, highly relevant, prominent
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Tawdry
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Cheap, gaudy, showy, tacky
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Pellucid
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Transparent, easy to understand
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Discomfit
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to defeat, put down
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Approbation
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Approval
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Inveigle
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Wheedle, led astray
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Perfidious
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Violating good faith, treacherous, dishonest
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Edacious
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Voracious, devouring
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Salacious
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Obscene
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Boorish
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Crude, offensive, rude
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Indolence
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Laziness
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Calumniate
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To slander, present false accusal
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Insularity
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Narrow-mindedness, isolated
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Cogent
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Convincing
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Sinuous
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Winding, undulating, serpentine
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Nexus
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A connection, tie, or link
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Interdict
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Prohibit, forbid
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Querulous
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Complaining, peevish, discontented
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Abjure
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Recant solemnly, repudiate, renounce
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Importune
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ask incessantly, to beg, to nag
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Zenith
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Top, highest point
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Expatiate
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to roam, wander freely
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Austere
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Forbiddingly stern, simple, unadorned, very plain
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Epicure
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Food lover, a connoisseur of food
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Laconic
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Brief, to the point, terse
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Attenuate
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make thin, weaken, enervate
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Remonstrate
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To protest, object
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Obstreperous
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Noisy, loud
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Contumacious
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Insubordinate, rebellious
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Mettlesome
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Courageous, high-spirited
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Cadge
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To beg, to get by begging
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Opprobrious
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Shameful, expressing disgrace
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Obloquy
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Abusively detractive language, sharp criticism, vituperation
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Accretion
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Growth, increase by successive addition, building up
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Diaphanous
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Transparent, gauzy
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Equivocate
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Lie, mislead, conceal the truth
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Xenophobe
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One who fears foreigners
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Chicanery
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Trickery
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Abscond
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To depart suddenly and secretly, as for the purpose of escaping arrest
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Emblem
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A symbol
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