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166 Cards in this Set
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Abase
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to degrade, to humiliate
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Abate
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to reduce in intensity or amount
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Abstruse
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Difficult to understand, recondite, concealed
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Abyss
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Bottomless hole, a vast expanse or depth
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Acuity
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Sharpness of perception
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Affinity
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A likeness, a natural relationship, a kinship
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Alacrity
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prompt and cheerful response
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Alchemist
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One who practices medieval chemistry or tries to change metals into gold
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Alloy
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A substance that is a mixture of metals
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Amenable
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open to or willing to follow advice or suggestion, tractable, malleable
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Antipathy
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A dislike, distaste, or enmity
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Append
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to add in a supplementary manner
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Arduous
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very difficult to accomplish or to achieve, very demanding (task)
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Ascend
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to move upward, to rise from a lower station
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Ascetic
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one who leads a life of self-denial and contemplation; absent of luxury
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Audacity
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excessive boldness, rashness, daring
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Augury
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an omen or prophecy
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Auspicious
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favorable
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Austere
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strict, stern; unadorned, ascetic
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Balm
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a soothing substance or one that gives relief
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Benevolence
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kindness, generosity, charity
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Benign
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not causing harm, of gentle disposition, beneficial
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Betoken
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to give a sign of
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Blighted
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destroyed or caused by decline or decay
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Buoyant
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capable of floating; cheerful
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Burnish
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to make shiny or to polish by rubbing
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Calamity
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a serious event causing distress or misfortune
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Capricious
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changing suddenly, fickle
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Consecrate
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to dedicate or to declare sacred
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Credible
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reliable and believable
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Dearth
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a lack, a scarcity
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Decorousness
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proper behavior
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Decorum
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appropriate conduct, correct and proper behavior
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Deleterious
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Harmful; dangerous; injurious
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Depravity
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moral crruption, a wicked or perverse act
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Derision
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scoffing at, mockery, ridicule
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Despondency
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depression, dejection
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Despotic
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ruling oppressively and absolutely; tyrannical
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Discern
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to differentiate between two or more things
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Duplicity
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double-dealing, hypocrisy
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Edifice
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a very large building
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Effervescent
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showing high spirits
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Endow
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to provide with income or property, to supply with a talent or quality
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Enmity
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absolute hatred
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Entreaty
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a plea, an earnest request
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Enumerate
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to count one by one
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Erudite
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scholarly
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Esoteric
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understood only by a small group or a select few
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Estrange
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to alienate, to separate
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Ethreal
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Heavenly, unusually delicate, light, lacking material substance, intangible
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Eulogy
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praise or tribute
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Evanescent
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Fleeting; impermanenet
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Exigent
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urgent, requiring immediate attention
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Expiate
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to atone or to make amends for a sin or a crime
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Extant
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still in existence
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Fervent
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ardent, showing great emotion, impassioned
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Florid
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flowery, flushed with color
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Foliage
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leaves of a plant, leafage
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Forbearance
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patience, lenience
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Foreboding
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premonitition of evil, an ominous omen
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Fugitive
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a person who is elusive or hard to find, wandering
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Furrow
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to make wrinkles or grooves
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Gaunt
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very thin, emaciated, angular
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Gentility
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state of refinement, member of the upper class or gentry
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Gratuitous
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given freely, unwarranted
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Grievous
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characterized by severe suffering or sorrow, serious or grave
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Ignominy
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Disgraceful or dishonorable conduct
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Imbibe
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to absorb or to drink in
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Imperious
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extremely overbearing
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Implicit
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understood but not directly expressed
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Import
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relative importance, significance
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Impugn
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to assail or to attack one's honor or integrity
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Impute
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to blame or to charge
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Inauspicious
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unfavorable
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Incantation
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a spell, written or recited formula of words designed for a particular effect
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Inclement
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stormy, severe
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Incongruity
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nonconformity, disagreement, incompatibility
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Incurious
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uninterested, lacking normal curiosity
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Indefatigable
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tireless, incapable of being fatigued
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Inextricable
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not able to be disentangled
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Infamous
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having a reputation of the worst kind, vicious, notoriously bad
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Inopportune
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inconvenient, poorly timed
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Inscrutable
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difficult to understand; mysterious
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Insidious
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treacherous or dangerous in a secret sort of way
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Inverterate
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firmly established, habitual, deep rooted
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Inviolable
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secure from violation or from being profaned
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Jocular
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jesting or joking
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Jollity
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merriment, state of being jolly
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Labyrinthine
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like a maze, very convoluted and intricate
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Lament
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to mourn or to express sorrow in a demonstrative manner
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Languid
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slow,sluggish, listless,weak
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Laud
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to praise, to extol
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Loquacious
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very talkative
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Lurid
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Sensational, gruesome and causing shock or horror
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Magnate
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a person of power and influence
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Malefactor
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a criminal
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Malevolence
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ill will or evil intentions
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Malicious
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motivated by hate or deliberate intent to harm
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Malleable
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capable of being shaped, influenced, or altered; tractable
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Melancholy
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depression of spirits
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Mirth
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gladness and merriment usually accompanied by laughter
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Misanthrope
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a hater of mankind
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Mollify
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to soothe or to appease, to assuage
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Oblivion
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state of being forgotten
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Obscure
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difficult to see, vague
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Obtuse
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dull of mind, insensitive, stupid
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Obviates
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makes unecessary, prevents as a result of anticipating
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Odious
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deserving hate or contempt
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Ominous
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threatening
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Opaque
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not allowing the passage of light, not transparent; hard to understand
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Palliate
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to ease pain, guilt or intensity
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Pallor
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extreme paleness usually relating to the face
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Palpable
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tangible, perceptible, easily noticeable
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Peal
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a loud ringing (usually of bells)
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Penitent
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showing or feeling regret for wrongdoing, repentant
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Petty
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small and insignificant
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Petulance
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unreasonable touchiness or irritability
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Piety
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devotion and reverence to God
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Placid
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peaceful, calm
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Plaintive
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mournful and expressing sorrow
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Pompous
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exaggerated show of dignity or self-importance, bombastic
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Ponderous
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very heavy, unwieldy from weight
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Portal
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a doorway (especially a large one)
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Portent
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a sign or forewarning
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Posterity
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future generations, all descendants of a person
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Potent
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powerful,having a strong effect
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Potentate
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a monarch, very powerful ruler, sovereign
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Prattle
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meaningless sounds, babble
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Precipice
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a very steep cliff or mass of rock, the brink of something dangerous
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Precocious
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exceptionally early in development or occurrence
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Predilection
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preference
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Primeval
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ancient, relating to the earliest ages
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Prolific
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abundantly fruitful, marked by great productivity
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Propensity
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preference, natural inclination
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Propinquity
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nearness; kinship
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Propriety
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correct conduct
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Quaint
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unusual in character or appearance
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Regimen
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the regular process, procedure, or system of doing something
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Remonstrate
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to protest, to make objections
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Replete
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filled to capacity, abundantly supplied
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Requite
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to make repayment or to return
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Revere
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to honor, to regard with respect
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Rotund
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very plump, round
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Sagacious
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wise, shrewd, very discerning
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Scintillating
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sparkling, shining, or flashing
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Sedulously
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very diligent, accomplishing with painstaking care
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Sentinel
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one who keeps guard as a sentry
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Solace
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to comfort or to cheer
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Stalwart
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one who supports a cause with firm partisanship
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Superfluous
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beyond what is needed or required, an overflow
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Tarry
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to delay in coming or going, to linger
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Tempestuous
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turbulent, stormy
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Tome
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a book that is a larger volume
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Torpid
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sluggish, inactive, dull
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Unobtrusive
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not readily noticeable, inconspicuous
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Vagrant
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a wanderer who does not have a home
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Venerate
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to honor, to revere
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Vicissitude
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a passing from one thing to another, change of luck
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Virtuous
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having excellent morals; righteous
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Vista
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a distant view seen through an opening
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Vitiated
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impaired, corrupted, or made ineffective
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Voluminous
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marked by great volume or size
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Voluptuous
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pleasurable to the senses, sensuous
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Wan
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very pale and sickly
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Witticism
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a clever and witty remark
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Zenith
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the highest point overhead, peak
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