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37 Cards in this Set
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plaudit
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statement giving strong praise
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poignant
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deeply moving, strongly affecting the emotions
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polemical
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causing debate/argument
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pontificate
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speak pompously, dogmatically
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portend
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foretell
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portent
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warning sign, omen
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poseur
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someone who puts on an act
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posterity
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future generations
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posthumous
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after death
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precept
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guiding principle
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precipice
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steep slope
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precipitous
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done in a hurry
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precocious
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developing early
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preeminent
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famous, outstanding
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prerogative
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right/privilege
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prescient
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having fore-knowledge
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pretentious
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pompous, self-important
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prevaricate
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speak misleadingly, evasively
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proclivity
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tendancy towards
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prodigal
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wasteful, extravagant
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prodigious
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very large
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proletarian
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member of working class
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proponents
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promoters, supporters
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proscribe
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forbid
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prosody
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study of versification
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prostration
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lying face down, overcome with extreme weakness
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protean
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changeable
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provincial
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unsophisticated, narrow-minded
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puerile
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childish
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purloin
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steal
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pusillanimous
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cowardly
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quagmire
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bog, marsh
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quarry
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somehting that is hunted; mine for stone
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ramifications
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branches; subdivisions of a complex system
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rancor
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resentment; animosity
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recant
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disclaim, retract statement
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recapitulate
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summarize
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