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25 Cards in this Set
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Aggregate
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to gather together; to collect
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Atrophy
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to waste away, to become useless
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Attrition
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to wear down or away; a decline
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Banal
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common; trite; ordinary
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Boorish
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rude
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Charlatan
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a fake or quack
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Corpulent
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fat; fleshy
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Decant
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to pour off (a liquid)
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Dilettante
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amature
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Filch
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to steal
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Inoculate
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infect
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Intrepid
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fearless; courageous
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Malediction
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curse
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Paragon
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model or idol of excellence or perfection
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Pulchritude
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beauty
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Pusillanimous
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fearful, cowardly
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Querulous
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complaining
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Recalcitrant
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hard to manage; stubborn; unobedient
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Resilience
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elasticity
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Schism
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a split or break; division
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Stipend
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salary
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Tortuous
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winding; twisting
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Trenchant
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keen or incisive; vigorous; defective; smart
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Vagary
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odd notion; unpredictable action
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Voracious
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extremely hungry or greedy
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