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40 Cards in this Set
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ABSCOND
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To leave secretly.
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ATTENUATE
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To reduce in force or degree; to weaken
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CAPRICIOUS
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Changing one's mind quickly and often
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CAUSTIC
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Biting in wit
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CHICANERY
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Deception by means of craft or guile
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DESULTORY
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Jumping from one thing to another; disconnected
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DIFFIDENT
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Lacking self-confidence
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DILLETANTE
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Someone with an amateurish and superficial interest in a topic
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EXIGENT
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urgent; requiring immediate action
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FOMENT
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To arouse of incite
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ICONOCLAST
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One who opposes established beliefs, customs, and institutions
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INCHOATE
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Not fully formed; disorganized
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INIMICAL
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Hostile, unfriendly
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INTRANSIGENT
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Uncompromisingl refusing to be reconciled
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MALINGER
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To evade responsibility by pretending to be ill
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OBDURATE
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Hardened in feeling; resistant to persuasion
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OBVIATE
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To prevent; to make unnecessary
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OCCLUDE
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To stop up; to prevent the passage of
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ONEROUS
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Troublesome and oppresive; burdensome
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OPPROBRIUM
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Public disgrace
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PARAGON
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Model of excellence or perfection
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PEDANT
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Someone who shows off learning
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PERFIDIOUS
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Willing to betray one's trust
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PREVARICATE
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To lie or deviate from the truth
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PROPITIATE
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To conciliate; to appease
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QUIESCENT
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Motionless
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RAREFY
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To make thinner or sparser
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SOPORIFIC
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Causing sleep or lethargy
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SPECIOUS
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Deceptively attractive; seemingly plausible but fallacious
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TORPOR
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Extreme mental and physical sluggishness
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ELEEMOSYNARY
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Charitable
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ABJURE
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To renounce on oath
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ABLUTION
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Act of cleansing
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ABROGATE
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To abolish by formal means
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ABSTRUSE
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Hard to understand; secret; hidden
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ACCRETION
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An increase by natural growth
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ACRIMONIOUS
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Caustic; stinging or biting in nature
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ADJURE
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To beg or command
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ADVENTITIOUS
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Accidental
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APOSTASY
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A total desertion of one’s religion, principles, party, cause, etc.
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