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79 Cards in this Set
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Modicum
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a moderate or small amount:
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Surfeit
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excess
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Conciliatory
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tending to conciliate: to overcome the distrust or hostility of; placate; win over; to make compatible
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Confrontational
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tending toward or ready for confrontation
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Jaded
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worn out or wearied, as by overwork or overuse; dulled or satiated by overindulgence
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Miffed
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put into an irritable mood, especially by an offending incident:
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Embittered
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To make bitter
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Wary
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watchful; being on one's guard against danger.
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Encroaching
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to advance beyond proper, established, or usual limits; tresspass
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Reprobate
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unprincipled person
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Spurned
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to reject with disdain; scorn.
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Invariable
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not changing
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Curative
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serving to cure or heal;
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Anomalies
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a deviation from the common rule
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Tendril
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a threadlike, leafless organ of climbing plants, often growing in spiral form, which attaches itself to or twines round some other body, so as to support the plant.
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Unequivocally
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in a way that is clear and unambiguous
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Sequestered
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to remove or withdraw into solitude or retirement; seclude
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Urbane
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reflecting elegance, sophistication
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Injunction
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a command; order; admonition
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Collusion
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a secret agreement
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Hubris
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arrogance
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Consummate
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complete
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Versatile
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capable of or adapted for turning easily from one to another of various tasks, fields of endeavor;variable or changeable, as in feeling, purpose
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Languid
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Slack; slow
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Sagacious
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having or showing acute mental discernment and keen practical sense; shrewd
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Evanescent
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vanishing; fading away; fleeting.
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Transient
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not lasting, enduring, or permanent; transitory.
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Derivative
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not original
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Morose
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gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a person or mood.
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Opulent
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wealthy, rich, or affluent.
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Indomitable
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unconquerable
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Lithe
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bending readily; pliant; limber; supple; flexible
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Ephemeral
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lasting a very short time; short-lived; transitory
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Dissipated
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indulging in or characterized by excessive devotion to pleasure; intemperate; dissolute.
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Circuitous
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roundabout; not direct:
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Inviolable
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prohibiting violation; secure from destruction, violence, infringement, or desecration
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Curator
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manager
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Divisive
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forming or expressing division or distribution.
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Prosaic
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commonplace; dull
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Futile
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incapable of producing any result; ineffective; useless
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Disparate
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distinct in kind; essentially different; dissimilar:
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Obsolete
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outmoded
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Meager
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having little flesh; lean; thin; deficient in quantity or quality; lacking fullness or richness; scanty; inadequate
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Inefficacious
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ineffective.
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Discretionary
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subject or left to one's own discretion.
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Purports
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to present, especially deliberately, the appearance of being; profess or claim, often falsely; to convey to the mind as the meaning or thing intended; express or imply.
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Touted
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to solicit business, employment, votes, or the like, importunately.
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Adept
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very skilled; proficient; expert:
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Relegate
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to send or consign to an inferior position, place, or condition:
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Fortuitous
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happening or produced by chance; accidental; lucky; fortunate
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Dilatory
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tending to delay or procrastinate; slow; tardy.
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Assiduous
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constant in application or effort; working diligently
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Pogroms
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an organized massacre, especially of Jews.
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Impugn
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to go or look through (a place, area, etc.) carefully in order to find something missing or lost; to explore or examine in order to discover
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Forgo
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to abstain or refrain from; give up
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Gall
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to vex or irritate greatly
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Spate
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a flood or inundation;
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Drudgery
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menial, distasteful, dull, or hard work.
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Acumen
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keen insight; shrewdness:
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Impertinence
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unmannerly intrusion or presumption; insolence; inappropriateness
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Arcane
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mysterious; secret; obscure
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Abstruse
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hard to understand; recondite; esoteric; secret; hidden
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Didactic
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intended for instruction; instructive
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Ingenuous
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free from reserve, restraint, or dissimulation; candid; sincere.; innocent; naive
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Disparage
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belittle
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Sophistry
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a false argument; superficially plausible, but generally fallacious method of reasoning.
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Effacement
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to wipe out
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Insurrectionists
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rebellion
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corollary
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an immediate consequence or easily drawn conclusion;
a natural consequence or result. |
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Uncanny
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having or seeming to have a supernatural or inexplicable basis; beyond the ordinary or normal; extraordinary; mysterious
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Autonomy
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independence or freedom
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Seditious
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incitement of discontent or rebellion against a government.
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Musing
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contemplation; reflection.
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Divisive
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rming or expressing division or distribution.
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Flotsam
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useless or unimportant items; odds and ends; material or refuse floating on water
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Cantankerous
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disagreeable to deal with; contentious; peevish:
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Tacit
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silent; saying nothing; implied
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Impetuous
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impulsive
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Miscreants
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depraved, villainous, or base; holding unorthodox belief
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