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12 Cards in this Set
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Anomaly
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Something that deviates from the normal; oddity, peculiarity, aberration
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Assuage
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To make an unpleasant feeling less intense; relieve, alleviate, mitigate, palliate
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Enigma
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Mystery, puzzle, conundrum
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Equivocal
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Ambiguous, vague, cryptic, pettifogging
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Erudite
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Having great knowledge or learning; scholarly, cerebral, educated
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Fervid
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Ardent, passionate, vehement
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Lucid
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Intelligible, understandable, cogent, articulate
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Opaque
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Not transparent; nontransparent, cloudy, blurred, fuzzy
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Placate
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To make less angry or hostile; pacify, mollify, conciliate
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Precipitate
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To cause an event (typically bad) to happen suddenly; bring about/on, cause, instigate, trigger
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Prodigal
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Spending money or resources freely and recklessly; extravagant, lavish, profligate, spendthrift, wasteful
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Zeal
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Great energy or enthusiasm; ardency, fervor, fire, avidity, keenness
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