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29 Cards in this Set
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Repose
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relaxation leisure
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Reprove
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to criticize or correct, usually in a gentle manner
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Requite
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to return or repay
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Revile
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verbally abuse
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Rife
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abundant prevalent especially to an increasing degree; filled with
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Salacious
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appealing to sexual desire
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Saturnine
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cold and steady in mood, gloomy, slow to act
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Sinecure
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a well-paying job or office that requires little or no work
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Solicitous
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anxious, concerned, full of desire, eager
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Specious
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deceptively attractive
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Stasis
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balance or equilibrium
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Stint
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to restrict with respect to a share or allowance
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Strident
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loud, harsh, unpleasantly noisy
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Sully
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to tarnish, taint
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Sybarite
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a person devoted to pleasure and luxury
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Tautological
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having to do with needless repetition, redundancy
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Temerity
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unreasonable or foolhardy disregard for danger
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Toady
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one who flatters in the hope of gaining favors
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Truculent
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disposed to fight
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Unfrock
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to dethrone, especially of priestly power
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veritable
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being without question
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Vim
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vitality and energy
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Visceral
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instinctive, not intellectual
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Vituperate
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to abuse verbally
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Voluble
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talkative, speaking easily
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Wan
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sickly pale
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Wax
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to increase gradually, to begin to be
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Winsome
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charming, happily engaging
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Worst
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to gain the advantage over; to defeat
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