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39 Cards in this Set
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Voracity |
Desiring or consuming excessively |
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Transparent |
Clearly reconginable as to who somebody really is |
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Preponderance |
Dominated in influence or strength |
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Expenditure |
A method of exhausting resource |
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Suspension |
A duration or span of exclusion |
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Eligible |
Entitled or qualified to do |
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Palpitate |
to beat in an unusal way |
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Ruminate |
to think carefully and at length |
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Deem |
to judge or consider |
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Fiasco |
a total failure that is often humiliating |
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Bilk |
scam, cheat, or defraud |
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Redress |
to correct a situation / make it right |
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Abscond |
leaving in an unnoticed manner |
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Voluble |
talking easy and at great length |
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Prejury |
telling lies under oath |
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Flagrant |
scandalous or obviously morally wrong |
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Acquiesce |
to agree passively |
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Amity |
friendliness or peaceful relations |
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Trepidation |
apprehension or fear |
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Precept |
guiding standard or rule |
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Captious |
exhibit in a decieving manner |
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Capitulate |
tantalizing by special enticement |
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Inception |
introductory presentation |
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Aplomb |
confidence, skill or poise |
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Nebulous |
not clear, distinct or definite |
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Maelstrom |
a vorte of enormous violence |
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Shibboleth |
a universal saying, commonplace wording |
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Fathom |
to probe, examine, astonishment
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Educe |
to speculate by being given correct information / theorize
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Arcane |
accepted only by law
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Adumbrate |
to reveal only to a degree
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Impervious |
well fortified, unable to pass through |
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Ramification |
unintended consequence of an action |
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Magananimous |
very generous or forgiving |
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Pusillanimous |
cowardly |
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Insure |
protect against |
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Elicit |
evoke or draw out (a response, answer, or fact) from someone in reaction to one's own actions or questions. |
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Inanimate |
not alive |
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Emersion |
the process or state of emerging from or being out of water after being submerged.
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