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30 Cards in this Set
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capacious
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(adj) able to contain much
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trammel
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(n) something that impedes activity, progress or freedom; (v) to hamper
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busker
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(n) a street musician of performer
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sybarite
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(n) a person devoted to luxury and pleasure
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deride
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(v) to laugh at with contempt
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cavil
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(v) to raise trivial objections; (n) a trivial objection
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farrago
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(adj) an assortment, a medley
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demagogue
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(n) a leader who obtains power by means of appeals to the emotions and prejudices of the populace
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quaff
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(v) to drink with relish
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hirsute
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(adj) covered with hair or bristles
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tenebrous
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(adj) dark, gloomy
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ostentation
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(n) excessive or pretentious display
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officious
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(adj) meddlesome
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afflatus
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(n) a divine inspiration
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quorum
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(n) such a number of the officers or members of any body as is legally competent to transact business
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hauteur
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(n) haughtiness, arrogance
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xenophobia
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(n) fear or hatred of what is strange or foreign
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bacchanalia
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(n) a revel
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immure
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(v) to enclose within or as if within walls
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deliquesce
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(v) to melt away or become liquid
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capitulate
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(v) to surrender under agreed conditions
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adventitious
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(adj) added extrinsically, not essentially inherent
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modicum
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(adj) a small or token amount
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fetid
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(adj) stinking
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gimcrack
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(n) a showy but useless or worthless object
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banal
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(adj) commonplace, trivial
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halcyon
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(adj) peaceful, undisturbed, happy
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adamant
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(adj) not susceptible to persuasion, unyielding
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jocund
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(adj) light-hearted, mirthful
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segue
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(v) to proceed without iinterruption
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