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89 Cards in this Set
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Benighted
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intellectually or morally ignorant;unenlightened
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Meretricious
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alluring by a show of flashy or vulgar attractions
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Impetus
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moving force; impulse
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Ephemeral
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short lived
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Hone
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tool for sharpening knives
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Goad
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a stimulus; pricks or wounds like a stick
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Aphasia
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unable to speak due to disease or injury
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Discern
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discriminate
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Banter
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light, playful, teasing remarks
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Disparage
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depreciate; discredit upon
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Lassitude
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laziness/ lack of energy
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Elucidate
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to make something clear/ clarify
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Diffident
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shy, lacking in confidence
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Adamant
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stubborn, uncompromising
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Hegemony
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domination
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Equivocate
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to use veg or ambiguous language intentionally
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Eschew
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deliberately detain from using something
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Founder
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to not succeed, sink, fall helplessly
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Hapless
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unlucky, with out happiness
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Filch
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to steal, sneaky
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disconcerting
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disturbing
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garner
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to gather, to rally, to store up
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To allay
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to lessen, to ease
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Castigate
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to punish
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Acerbic
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bitter, sharp in taste or temper
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cajole
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coax, persuade nicely
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soporific
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sleepy, tending to cause sleep
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licentious
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immortal, unrestricted
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bellicose
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always ready to fight
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candor
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honesty, open
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fallow
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unused
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abscond
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to run away secretively
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feckless
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careless, irresponsible
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Grovel
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to beg, to humble ones self
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capacious
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spacious, capable of holding a lot
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anachronism
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out of its proper place in time
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incipient
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in its initial stages, beginning to appear
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heinous
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herendous, horific
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exculpate
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clear them of guilt or blame
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Inscrutable
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incapable of being analyzed or scrutinized; not easily understood
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broach
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to mention or suggest for the first time
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adage
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old saying or proverb
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acrimony
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bitterness
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drivel
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talk stupidly
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recondite
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hard for the average mind to understand
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baleful
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harmful, with evil intentions
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ramshackle
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in bad shape
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quandary
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dilemma
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juggernaut
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a large over powering destructive force
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Adulation
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high praise to someone
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Cacophony
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unpleasant sound, jarring
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Bombastic
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using high level but meaningless vocab
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Lithe
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bending easily, flexible
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Hyperbole
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exaggeration
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Quagmire
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Difficult situation
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Behemoth
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large creature
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Abjure
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to swear off something (religious)
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Abstemious
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Non self indulgent, especially with food and drinks
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Alacrity
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doing something with cheerfulness
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Queruious
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having a tendency to complain
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Endemic
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belonging to a certain area
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antithesis
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opposite
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bevy
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group
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preclude
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to make something possible to happen
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altercation
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noise dispute or argument
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quell
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to crush
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impervious
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Not effected by something
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dyspeptic
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pain in the stomach caused by digestive issues
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inure
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accustomed to accept something undesirable
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Doleful
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sad, mornful
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Emend
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to correct a text (writing)
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Qulescence
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Inactivity
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Lucid
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clear, easy to understand
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Fetid
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smelly
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Capricious
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Witty
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Zenith
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highest point (of life)
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Nadir
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lowest point (of life)
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Duplicity
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2-faced, dishonesty
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Philanthropy
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Giving away monet to charity
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dulcet
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pleasing to the ear, soothing
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sophist
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skilled debater (not positive), shady
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autonomous
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self determining, independent
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quintessence
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ultimate example of somethjng
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equanimity
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calmness
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diurnal
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happens during the day, daily
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anomaly
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outlire
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quibble
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to argue about insignificant things
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equivocal
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ambiguous, open to interpretations
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quotidian
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occurring daily
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