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159 Cards in this Set
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Approbation
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to approve
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assuage
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to make easier, to appease, to satisfy
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coalition
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to combine, or merge
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Decadence
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a decline or decay
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elict
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to draw forth, bring out some information
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expostulate
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to attempt to dissuade someone
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hackneyed
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used often, lack of originality
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hiatus
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a gap, or opening
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innuendo
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a hint
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intercede
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to plead on someone's behalf, to serve as a third party
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jaded
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wearied, worn out
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lurid
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causing shock or horror
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meritorious
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worthy, deserving a praise
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petulant
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peevish, easily irritated and upset
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prerogarive
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a special right or privlage
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provincial
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narrow-minded
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simulate
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imitate
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transcend
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to rise above or beyond
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umbrage
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a vague suspesion, irritation, annoyance
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unctuous
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trying to hard to give an impression
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amerliorate
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to improve, make better
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aplomb
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assurance, great self confidence;
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bombasitc
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words intended to conceal a lack of ideas
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callow
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unexperienced
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drivel
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saliva
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epitome
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a summary, an instance that represents a larger reality
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exhort
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to urge strongly
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ex officio
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holding a ceratain office
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infringe
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to violate or trespass
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ingratiate
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to make oneself agreeable and thus popularity by others
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interloper
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intruder
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intrinstic
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belonging to someone or something by nature
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inveigh
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to make a violent attack in words
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lassitude
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lack of energy
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millennium
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a period of a thousand years
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occult
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mysterious
to hide, conceal |
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permeate
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to spread through
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precipitate
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to fall as moisture
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stringent
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strict
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surmise
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to think or believe without bertain supporting evidence
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abominate
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to have an intensedislike or hatred
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acculturation
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modification of social patterns of a culture
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adventitious
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resulting from chance rather than from inherent cause, accidental
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ascribe
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asign
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circuitous
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roundabout
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commiserate
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to sympathize with, have pity or sorrow
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enjoin
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to direct or order someone to do something
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expedite
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to make easy, cause to progress faster
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expiate
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to make ammends
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ferment
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a state of great exvitement, or to produce alcohol
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inadvertent
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unintentional, accedental
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nominal
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too small to be considered or taken seriously
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non commital
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not definite, yes or no
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peculate
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to steal something
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proclivity
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natural tendency
ex: curious, patients, and fond of long walks, she soon displayed a proclivity for nature study |
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sangfroid
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coolness
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seditious
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rebillious
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tenuous
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slight importance, or significance
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vitriolic
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bitter, sarcastic
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wheedle
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flattery to gain some desired end
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affable
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easy to speak to
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aggrandize
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to increase in greatness, power or wealth
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amorphous
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shapless, without definite form
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aura
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personal quality
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contraband
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illegal, smuggled goods
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erudite
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scholary
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gossamer
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a very thin cloth
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infer
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to find out by reasoning
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inscrutable
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incapable of being understood
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insular
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narrow minded,
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irrevocable
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incapable of being changed or called back
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propensity
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a natural incination
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querulous
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peevish, complaining, fretful
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remonstrate
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to argue or plead with someone, protest
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repudiate
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reject
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resilient
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able to return to an original shape or form
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reverberate
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re-echo, resound
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scurrilous
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vulgar, or low
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sedulous
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showing determintation
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sleazy
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thin or flimsy in texture, cheap
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amnesty
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any act of forgiveness
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autonomy
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self-evident
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blazon
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to publish widely, advertisment
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caveat
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a warning or caution
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equitable
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fair, just
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extriciate
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to free difficulties
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flich
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to steal in a sneaky way
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flout
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to mock, treak with contempt
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fractious
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unpredictable troublesome
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precept
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conduct
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salutary
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benificial, helpful
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scathing
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bitterly severe,causing great harm
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scourge
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to wip, punish severly
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sepulchral
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funeral, typical tomb, extremly gloomy
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soporific
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tending to cause sleep,
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straitlaced
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extremy strict
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transient
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lasting only a short time
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unwieldy
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not easily carried, or handeled becuase of the size
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vapid
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dull, uninteresting, tiresome,
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anomalous
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abnormal, irregular,
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aspersion
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derogatory statement
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bizarre
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extremely strange
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brusque
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abrupt, blunt,
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cajole
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to persuade
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castigate
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to punish severly
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contrive
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to plan ,the result of a scheme or plan,
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denagogue
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a leader who exploits popular pregudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power
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disabuse
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to free from errorm set right in ideasor thinking
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ennui
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boredom
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fetter
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to chain on the feet
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heinous
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offensive, hateful
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immutable
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not subject to change, constant
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insurgent
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one who rebels against authority
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megalomania
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a delusion marked by a feeling or power, wealth, talent
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sinecure
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a position requiring little or no work
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surreptitious
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stealth, secret,
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transgress
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to go beyond a limit or boundary
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transmute
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to change from one nature to another
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vicarious
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preformed, in place of another
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austere
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without luxury, simple plain...THINK PURITAIN SENTENCE!!!!
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beneficent
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acts of kindness, charity
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cadaverous
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pale, gaunt
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concoct
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prepare by combining ingredients
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crass
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stupid
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debase
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lower in character, or quality, decrade, to cause deteriorate
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desecrate
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to commit sacrilege upon, to pollute
the search continues for the vandals who desecrate the cemetry. |
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disconcert
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to confuse
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grandiose
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grand in impressive or statel way, exaggerated
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inconsequential
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unimportant
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infraction
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a breaking of a law
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mitigate
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tomake milder or softer
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pillage
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to rob goods by open force, Looting
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prate
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to talk a great deal in about nonsense
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punctilious
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very careful and exact
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redoubtable
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inspiting fear
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reprove
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scold
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restitution
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the act of restoring someone or something to the rightful owner
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stalwart
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brave stong person
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vulnerable
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capable of being wounded or damaged
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acrimonious
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stingent, bitter
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bovine
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resembling a cow
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consternation
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confusion
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corpulent
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fat
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disavow
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to deny responsability of
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dispassionate
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calm, free of emotion
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dissension
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disagreement
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dissipate
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to cause to disappear
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expurgate
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to remove from a passage
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gauntlet
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two men fighting each other with weapons
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hypothetical
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based on an assumption
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ignoble
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mean
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impugn
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to say it is false
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intemperate
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lacking self-control
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odium
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hatred
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perfidy
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betrayal
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relegate
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demote, to place in a lower position
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squeamish
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inclined to nausea
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subserbient
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obiedient
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susceptible
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open to, EASILY INFLUENCED!!!
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