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38 Cards in this Set
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beatific
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blissful
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beatific
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rendering or making blessed
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behemoth
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a creature of enormous size, power or appearance
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blandishment
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anything designed to flatter or coax
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blandishment
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sweet talk, apple-polishing
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cacophonous
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harsh-sounding, raucous, discordant, dissonant
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chicanery
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trickery, deceptive practice or tactics, double-dealing
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consign
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to give over to another's care, charge, or control
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consign
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to entrust, deliver,
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consign
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to set apart for special use
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coup
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a highly succesive stroke, masterstroke, tour de force, act, plan, or stratagem
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coup
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a sudden takeover of power or leadership
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euphemism
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a mild or inoffensive expression in place of a harsh or unpleasant one
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euphemism
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a substitute
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febrile
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feverish
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febrile
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pertaining to or makred by fever
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febrile
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frenetic
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gainsay
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to deny, contradict, controvert
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gainsay
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to dispute, oppose
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imminent
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about to happen, threatening
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innate
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natural, inorn, inherent
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innate
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built-in
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loath
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unwilling, reluctant, disinclined
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manifest
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clear, evident to the eyes or mind
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manifest
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to show plainly, exhibit, evince
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manifest
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a list of cargo and/or passengers
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minutiae
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small or trivial details, trifling matters
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moratorium
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a suspension of activity
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moratorium
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an official waiting period
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moratorium
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an authorized period of delay
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nostrum
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an alleged cure-all
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nostrum
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a remedy or scheme of questionable effectiveness
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pariah
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one who is rejected by a social group or organization
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visionary
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not practical, lacking in realism
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visionary
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having the nature of a fantasy or dream
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visionary
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one given to far-fetched ideas
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visionary
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a dreamer or seer characterized by vision or foresight
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wizened
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dry, shrunken and wrinkled (often as a result of aging)
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