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74 Cards in this Set
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to reduce in intessity or amount
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abate
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to stress, to give prominence to, emphasize
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accent
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implied, or indirect reference, hinting to
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allusion
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to harass
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belaguer
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a mixture of many things
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conglomerate
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believing on slight evidence, gullible
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credulous
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given to fault finding, sneering and sarcasm; exhibiting mocking disbelief
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cynical
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proper behavior
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decorousness
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serious, reserved, coy
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demure
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deserted, without inhabitants, barren
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desolate
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hopeless despondent, discouraging
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despairing
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coming from a variety of different sources
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eclectic
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mournful, expressing sorrow
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elegiac
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to provide with income or property, to supply with talent or quality
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endow
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to use up, to drain
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exhaust
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perfect or close to perfect in a lovely or delicatte way
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exquisite
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a total failure and a mess
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fiasco
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to develope fully
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flower
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smooth and effortless
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fluid
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a person who is elusive pr hard to find, wandering
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fugitive
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dizy
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giddy
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seriousness, importance
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gravity
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Very ugly, offensive, shocking
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hideous
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to try to equal or to be like
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emulate
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one who in insincere or deceitful
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hypocrite
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unchanging
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immutable
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extreamly overbearing
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imperious
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incapable of being pleased
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implacable
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laziness
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indolence
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to bring on or to bring about
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induce
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insulting or contemptuous behaviour
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insolence
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having or seeming to have no end, wearisomely protracted
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interminable
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stylish and lively in manner or appearance
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jaunty
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to expose to danger
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jeapardize
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to morn or to express sorrow in a demonstrative behavior
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lament
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abindent in growth, very fertile
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luxuriant
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to ponder
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muse
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to degree to which something is subject and likely to change
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mutability
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state of being forgotten
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oblivion
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difficult to see, vague
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obscure
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threatening
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ominous
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a model of excellence of perfection
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paragon
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a loud ringin (usually of bells)
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peal
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dangerous, risky, not a secure situation
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precarious
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to cause to speedily occur, to throw headlong
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precipitate
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tp pucker or to lighten one's lips
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purse
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unusua; in character or appearence
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quaint
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constantly complaining, whining
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querulous
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to honor, to regard with respect
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revere
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to express in an overly enthusiastic manner
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rhapsodize
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characterized by satire ( a branch of literature riduculing vice or folly)
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satiric
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not flowing, foul from not moving
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stagnant
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to dull the senses as to put into a stupor
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stupefy
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to refine or to transform a primitive impulse into one socially acceptable
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sublimate
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delicate, elusice, not obvious
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subtle
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haughty, vain and arrogant
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supercilious
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not fully worked out, provisional, uncertain
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tentative
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flimsy, barly attached
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tenuous
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the quality of allowing passafe of light but not a clear view
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translucence
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quality of being able to be seen through, clear
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transparent
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insignificent matters
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trivis
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swollen
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turgid
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not readily noticeable, in conspicuous
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unobtrusive
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not intentional, without knowledge
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unwitting
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having to do with a city pr characteristic of a city
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urban
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to express by spealing
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utter
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emptiness as in lack of intelligence
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vacuity
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a wanderer who does not have a homw
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vagrant
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remnants, traces, remains
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vestiges
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full of life, over animated
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vivacious
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bright, distinct and clear
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vivid
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something offensive to good taste and refinement
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vulgarity
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a sudden and impulsive action
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whim
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a play that can say what is wants, kind of play TGM is
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memory play
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