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20 Cards in this Set
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abstemious
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(adj.) moderate
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censurable
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(adj.) deserving of blame or correction
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contingent
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(adj.) happening by chance
(n.) a representative group forming part of a larger body |
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corroborate
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(v.) to confirm
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denizen
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(n.) an inhabitant, resident
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discursive
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(adj.) passing aimlessly from one place or subject to another
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disseminate
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(v.) to scatter or spread widely
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dowdy
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(adj.) poorly dressed, shabby
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florid
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(adj.) highly colored, reddish; excessively ornate, showy
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foist
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(v.) to impose by fraud
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gauche
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(adj.) awkward, lacking in social graces, tactless, clumsy
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heresy
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(n.) an opinion different from accepted belief
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inculcate
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(v.) to impress on the mind by repetition, teach persistently and earnestly
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palpable
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(adj.) capable of being touched or felt
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perceptive
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(adj.) having sympathetic insight or understanding, capable of keen appreciation
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pernicious
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(adj.) extremely harmful; deadly, fatal
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salient
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(adj.) leaping, jumping, or sprinking forth
(n.) a projection or bulge, a land form that preojects upward or outward |
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satiate
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(v.) to satisfy completely; to fill to excess
(adj.) full, satisfied |
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sear
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(v.) to make or become dry and withered
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specious
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(adj.) deceptive, apparently good or valid but lacking real merit
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