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40 Cards in this Set
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Articulate
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expressed, formulated, or presented with clarity and effectiveness:
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Cavort
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To romp or prance around exuberantly; to make merry
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Credence
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Belief, mental acceptance
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Decry
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To condemn, express strong disapproval; to officially depreciate
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Dissemble
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to disguise or conceal, deliberately give false impression
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Distraught
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very much agitated or upset as a result of emotion or mental conflict
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Eulogy
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a formal statement of commendation; high praise
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Evince
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to display clearly, to make evident, to provoke
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exhume
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to remove from a grave; to bring to light
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feckless
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lacking in spirit and strength; ineffective, weak; irresponsible unreliable
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murky
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dark and gloomy, obscure; lacking in clarity and precision
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nefarious
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wicked, depraved, devoid of moral standards
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piquant
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stimulating the taste or mind; spicy, pungent; appealingly provacative
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primordial
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developed or created at the very beginning; going back to the most ancient times or earliest stages; fundamental, basic
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propinquity
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nearness in place or time; kinship
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unwonted
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not usual or expected; not in character
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Utopian
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founded upon or involving a visionary view of an ideal world; impractical
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Verbiage
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language that is too wordy or inflated in proportion to the sense or content, wordiness; a manner of expression
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Verdant
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immature in experience or judgment
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Viscous
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Having a gelatinous or gluey quality, lacking in easy movement or fluidity
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Com-
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With, Together
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Marketplace, assembly
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Fort |
Strong
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Phob |
Fear, An anxiety disorder
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-a
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A place or thing
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-able
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able to be
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-ation
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an action or process
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-fy
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to do, to make
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-ia
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condition
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-tude
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state, quality, act
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iso-
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equal
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Anem/Anemo |
Wind
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bar |
pressure, weight
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meter/metr |
measure
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Phil |
Love, loving
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Trop |
Turn
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-ic
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like, related to
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-ism
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act, state, condition
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-ology
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study of, science
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-ous
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having the quality of
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