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20 Cards in this Set
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Abasement
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To reduce or lower as in rank, office, reputation, or estimation.
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Advocate
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To speak or write in favor of, to support, to recommend publicly.
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Belligerent
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Warlike, aggressively hostile.
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Compunction
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Contrition; remorse; a feeling of uneasiness or anxiety of the conscience caused by regret for doing wrong or causing pain.
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Debacle
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A complete collaspe or failure; a general breakup or dispersion.
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Dichotomy
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Division into two parts, kinds, etc. Division into two mutually exclusive or contradictory groups.
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Effusion/Effuse
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To pour out or forth, shed.
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Ephemeral
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Lasting a very short time; short lived.
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Fruition
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Attainment of anything desired; realization; accomplishment.
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Ignominy
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Disgrace; dishonor; shameful or dishonorable conduct or quality.
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Ineffable
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Incapable of being expressed or described in words; inexpressible.
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Irascible
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Easily provoked to anger; very irritable.
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Metaphorical
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Something that is used to represent something else.
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Neophyte
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A beginner or novice.
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Paradox
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A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth; self contradictory.
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Progeny
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A descendant or offspring, as a child, plant, or animal.
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Recant
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To withdraw or disavow formally; retract.
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Salient
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Prominent or conspicuous; projecting or pointing outward.
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Sustenance
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Nourishment; means of sustaining life.;
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Usurp
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To seize and hold by force or without legal right; to use without authority or right.
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