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90 Cards in this Set
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Abhor
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hate
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Bigot
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narrow minded
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prejudiced person
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Counterfeit
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fake, false
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Enfranchise
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giving the right to vote
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Kindle
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start a fire
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Noxious
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Poisonious or lethal
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like gas
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Placid
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calm and peaceful
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Remuneration
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Payment for a work done
Reward |
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Abrasive
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rough or harsh
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A substance used for smoothing or polishing or sharpening
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Bilk
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Cheat or defraud
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steling
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Abhor
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hate
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Bigot
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narrow minded
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prejudiced person
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Counterfeit
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fake, false
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Enfranchise
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givign the right to vite
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Kindle
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start a fire
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Noxious
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Poisonious or lethal
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like gas
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Placid
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calm and peaceful
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Remuneration
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Payment for a work done
Reward |
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Abrasive
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rough or harsh
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A substance used for smoothing or polishing or sharpening
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Bilk
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Cheat or defraud
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steling
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Covert
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Cover, hidden
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Engender
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cause something
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Violence often engenders more violence
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Hangar
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a storage area
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Knotty
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something that is hard to solve, complex
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Nuance
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an expression or feeling
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paintings can have many Nuances
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Plagiarism
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taking credit for someone else'd thing
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Tangent
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going off subject
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related to talking usually
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Billowing
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swelling or raising
the rising of something |
The waters are billowing upwards |
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Harangue
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a noisy speech or loud speech
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someone talking loud
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Nullify
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making something sound unimportant
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I nullify all the time, repeating in a bored tone..
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Plaintiff
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an applicant
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Replete
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full
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Abrogate
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cancelling or denying
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Blasphemy
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A speech that offends religious background and or people
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Pliable
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flexible, extendible
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Ply-able
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Rescind
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retract or repeal or revoke
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Abstruce
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Very difficult to understand
Obsure |
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Blunderbuss
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A little short gun that has a wide nozzle with no good shooting range
A very clumsy person |
an acient weapon
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Cringe
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recoil back or flinsh
shy away from --verb |
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Envenom
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To poison or cause bitterness to someone and or give a bad feeling
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Hedonism
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Pleasure seeking person, slefish or self indulgence
Pleasure seeker |
selfish
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Laconic
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a few words, straight to the point
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straight forward
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Oblique
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indirect, not straight forward, the oposite of Hedonism. Not straight or vertical, slanting
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not straight or vertical, not to the point
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Plumage
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feathers of a bird
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Resignation
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end or acceptance of fate
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Tenacious
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stubborn, resolute, standing your ground
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Accolade
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Praise someone or give tribute or gifts. Honor --noun
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Bolster
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Support something or someone
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Ephemeral
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short-lived
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Lamentation
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An expression of regret and or sorrow
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Tentative
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hestitaing, experimening
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not, paying attention
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Aquiensce
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To agree with or give into
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Bombast
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Arrogant or Absurd Pompous language
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Curtail
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something cut short
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Epicure
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Someone that is appreciative of food and drinks
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Lampoon
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Ridicule, make fun off in a bad manner
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Resonant
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echoeing
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Labryinthine
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cmplicated or hard
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Plaudit
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a statement giving a kind of strong praise
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Rreprehensible
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shameful, something very bad
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Blatant
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Obvious
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Ensconce
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establish firmly and comfortably in a position
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Obdurate
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Stuborn
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Reprieve
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Delay or postpoment of a punishment
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Tawdry
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something of little value or importance
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Credulous
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gullible, able to believe anything
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Enshroud
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cover
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Lachrymose
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adj. tearful or sad
Ex: Lachrymose poetry |
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Obfuscate
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deliberatly making something hard to understand
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Plethora
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too much, an excess amount of something
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Repudiate
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to refuse or reject
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Tedium
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boredom
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Abstemious
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self denying, kind of rejecting by self, refusal
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Blithe
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Carefree, free-sprirted
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hippee like
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Crepuscular
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active the whole day, acitve from dawn to dusk
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Lackluster
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boring, dull, bland, monotonous
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lacking-Luster
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anomaly
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irregularity or abnormal
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apathy
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lack of caring
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opposite of sympathy
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Apocryphal
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untrue or made up
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Austere
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harsh, stern
Ex: She is a very quiet and austere women since when she talks she critizes |
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Hackneyed
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common place, too much originality
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Beguile
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Mislead or trick
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delude
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bequeathe
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hand down, leave something by will
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like beneath
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blighted
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suffered or destroyed or on the verge to be depleated
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Not something good
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Cajole
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persuade
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Capricious
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unpredictable
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Censorious
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critical, read and find falts, not positive
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not looking for the good
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clemency
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bendable, lenient, mildness and lightly carried
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nice
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Coercion
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the use of force to get someone to obey
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forceful manner
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depravity
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extreme crruption, a kind of wikedness
Ex: A moster of depravity (T.S. Eliot) |
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