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144 Cards in this Set
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hiatus
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a gap, break
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atrophy
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decrease in size; decline
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reconcile
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to reestablish a close relationship between; fix up
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disseminate
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to scatter widely; advertise, announce
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orator
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skilled public speaker; boss
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domineering
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bossy, arrogant
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pedantic
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attention to details; bookish, academic
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conciliatory
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calm, civil
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treacherous
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betraying, disloyal
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didactic
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to instruct; academic, enlightening
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moralizing
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to think about or express moral judgments; teacherish
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dogmatic
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egotistical, formal
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meek
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showing patience; gentle, peaceful
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simplistic
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fundamental, introductory
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prosaic
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lacking in imagination and spirit; dull
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vacillation
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fear, hesitation
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solicitation
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to petition persistently; address, call, bid
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mutability
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change; flow; alteration
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astuteness
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showing shrewdness; discrimination
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coarseness
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of low, common quality; earthiness
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transcendence
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surpassing others; supreme
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malleability
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capable of being shaped or formed (a malleable metal)
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relapse
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to fall or slide back into a former state; recurrence
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erudite
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learned, brainy, educated
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Philistine
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barbaric, brutal
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infidels
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one who has no religious belief; graceless, evil
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obsolete
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no longer in use; dead
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straggly
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growing or spread out in a disorderly way; crummy
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aberrations
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departure, difference
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egotistical
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conceited person; arrogant
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blatant
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unpleasantly loud and noisy
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engimas
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one that is puzzling, ambiguous, or inexplicable
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modesty
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propriety in speech, dress, or behavior; bashfulness
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archaisms
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the use of an archaic expression; age, ancientness, elderliness
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emblematic
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symbolic, figurative, illustrative
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rejuvenation
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make young again; recovery, reawakening, regeneration
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admonishment
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blame, disapproval
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affluence
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wealth, fortune
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haughty
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scornfully and condescendingly proud; conceited
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pertinacity
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ability, allowance, bearing, capacity
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resilient
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ability to recover readily; elastic, bouncy
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relentless
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determined, ferocious, dogged
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stoutness
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having boldness, bravery, or determination; bulkiness
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craven
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characterized by fear; cowardly, chicken, fearful
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pontification
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the office of a pope
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circumlocution
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the use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language; indirectness
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brevity
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condensation, crispness, conciseness
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vestige
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a visible trace, evidence, or sign of something that once existed but exists no more; hint
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anomaly
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departure from the normal order, form, or rule; abnormality, departure
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quandary
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a state of uncertainty; box, clutch
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monologue
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a continuous series of jokes or comic stories delivered by one comedian; address
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anachronism
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the representation of someone as existing; postdate, misplacement
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interlocutor
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someone who takes part in a conversation, often formally or officially; agent, broker, distributor
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portmanteau
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a large leather suitcase that opens into two hinged compartments; blend, compound
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redundancy
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opportunity, option, other
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ambivalent
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characterized by a mixture of opposite feelings or attitudes; clashing, doubtful
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reverential
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feeling veneration; civil, courteous, considerate
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cynical
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skeptical of the motives of others; ironic, doubtful
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jocular
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characterized by joking; campy, amusing
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juxtaposition
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the state of being placed or situated side by side; bond, combination
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progency
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a result of creative effort; product, breed, family
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intricate
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elaborate, complex
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pathogen
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an agent that causes diseases; bacteria, bug
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encompass
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to form a circle or ring around; surround, circle
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euphoria
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a feeling of great happiness or well-being; bliss, dreamland
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genomics
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analysis, biology, diagnosis
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pharmaceutical
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relating to pharmacy; cure, essence
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refute
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to prove to be false; burn, argue against, break
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phenomenon
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an occurrence that is perceptible by the senses; appearance, actuality
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rigorously
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precise, accurate
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diligently
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marked by painstaking effort; animatedly
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tenor
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a continuous, unwavering course; aim, body, core
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regimen
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governmental rule or control; bag, care, channels, charge, control
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pessimists
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cynic, complainer
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cosmological
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the study of the physical universe considered as a totality of phenomena in time & space
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bulwark
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a wall raised as a defensive fortification; barrier, buffet, bastion
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conglomeration
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an accumulation of miscellaneous things; assortment
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prudence
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careful management; economy
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bastion
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a projecting part of a fortification; defense, bulwark
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conspiracy
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an agreement to perform together an illegal, wrongful act; counterplot
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evanescent
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vanishing, deceitful, ambiguous
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irate
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extremely angry; annoyed, bummed out
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insipid
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lacking flavor or zest; not tasty
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intervention
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to come, appear, or lie between two things; action, activity
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protracted
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to draw out or lengthen in time; confirmed, constant, continual
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contemporaneous
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happening during the same period of time; attending, collateral
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transient
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remaining in a place only a brief time; changeable
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surreptitious
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covert, hidden, furtive
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fickle
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changeable, cheat
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ephemeral
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lasting for a markedly brief time; evanescent
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egregious
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outrageously bad or offensive; extreme
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invoked
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to call on for assistance or support; beg
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repudiated
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abandon, be against, banish
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lionized
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to look on or treat (a person) as a celebrity; famed
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vilified
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to make vicious statements about; blamer, belittler, attacker
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beguiled
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bewitched, charmed, delighted
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abated
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to reduce in amount; lessen, decline, decrease
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attenulated
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to make small; blended, degraded, corrupt
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diminished
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to make smaller
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flourished
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to grow well
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endeavor
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an earnest attempt; aim, best shot
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capricious
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impulsive and unpredictable; carless, changeful
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pious
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born again, devoted, divine
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supercilious
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feeling or showing haughty disdain; bossy, cocky
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despotic
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a ruler with absolute power
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squandered
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to spend wastefully; consumed, destroyed
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amenable
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willing, agreeable
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bore
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bad news, bummer, creep
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ruthless
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having no pity; merciless
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epitomized
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to sum up; condensed, pocket
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succinctly
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concise and terse; compact, blunt
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monopolistic
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busy, absorbed, attentive
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ardor
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devotion, eagerness, feeling
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pedantry
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an act; arrangement
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abstruse
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difficult to understand; deep, complex
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enticements
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attraction, lure
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infallibly
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incapable of failing; certain
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attainment
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accomplishments, arrival, completion
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whence
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from where; beginning, cause
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brink
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the point at which something is likely to begin; border
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irksome
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causing annoyance; characterless
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anatomy
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the science of the shape and structure of organisms and their parts; analysis
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minutiae
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a small detail; evidence, emergency
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causation
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a cause
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obscure
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indistinct, complicated
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apprehension
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dread, fearful, alarm, concern, doubt
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diligence
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earnest; steady effort; activity, alertness
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circumscribed
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to draw a line around; enveloped, fenced
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promiscuous
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abandoned, cheap, bum
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phonetic
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articulate, lingual, narrated
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philosophically
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abstract, deep
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aristocrat
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a member of a ruling class; noblemen
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manifest
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obvious, bold, clear
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superfluous
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being beyond what is required; excess
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platonic
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ideal, spiritual, intellectual
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dialects
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accent, idiom, can
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homophones
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same pronounciation, different meanings
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drawl
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drag out, extend
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stratify
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to form, arrange, or deposit in layers; coat, foil
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vexing
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to annoy; bother
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trove
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a collection of valuable items discovered; addition
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whimsical
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amusing
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satirical
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abusive, bitter
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strident
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loud, harsh, boisterous, clashing
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