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24 Cards in this Set
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Amenable
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open to or willing to follow advice or suggestion, tractable, malleable (docile, obedient) (unwilling)
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Animadversion
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an unfavorable or censorious comment
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Asperity
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something that is hard to endure
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Augur
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Augur - an omen or prophecy
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Bedizen
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Bedizen - ornament or dress in a showy manner
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Contumacious
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Contumacious - rebellious, stubbornly disobedient
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Dell
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Dell - small, secluded, wooded valley
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Discern
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Discern - to differentiate between two or more things (a: to ignore; to be oblivious; to)
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Effleuence
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Effleuence - the process of flowing out; something that flows out
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Escutcheon
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Escutcheon - a shield or shield like surface on which a coat of arms is depicted
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Ethereal
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Ethereal - extremely delicate or refined
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Exigencies
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Exigencies - state of needing much aid, urgency
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Expostulation
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Expostulation - a demand or attempt to persuade
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Ignominious
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Ignominious - marked by shame or disgrace
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Inimical
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Inimical - adverse in tendency or effect; harmful; unfavorable
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Inscrutable
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Inscrutable - difficult to understand; mysterious (a: clear; readable; understandable)
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Interposition
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Interposition - the act of inserting between points
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Irrefragable
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Irrefragable - not to be disputed or contested
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Kindred
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Kindred - a relative
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leech
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leech - a person who clings to another for personal gain, without giving anything in return
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Lurid
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Lurid - gruesome, horrible
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Mien
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Mien - the way in which a person behaves
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Mountebank
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Mountebank - a person who sells fake medicine
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Necromancy
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Necromancy - the practice of communicating with the spirits
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