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24 Cards in this Set
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Mirage
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An optical Illusion, something unreal and unattainable
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Mundane
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of the world, earthly, ordinary
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Nutriment
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Nourishment, food
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Opprobrious
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Disgraceful, infamous, causing reproach
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Paraphrase
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to restate someone else's writing in one's own words
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Perfunctory
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done without care or interest, or merely as a form or routine
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Perverse
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deviating from what is considered right or acceptable
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Porcine
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pertaining to pigs or hogs
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procrastinate
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to defer, to postpone action
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prosaic
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commonplace, dull, matter-of-fact, literally, like prose as opposed to poetry
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Quiescent
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Motionless, at rest
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Ribald
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Coarse, vulgar, often said of humor
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Sardonic
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bitter, scornful, sarcastic
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Shard
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a fragment or broken piece, especially of pottery
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sinecure
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an office or position that requires little of no work yet offers some compensation
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suave
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urbane, polished, gracious and sophisticated in manners
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surreptitiously
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clandestinely, secretly, stealthily
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termagent
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a boisterous, scolding woman; a shrew
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Travesty
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a farcical imitation, an inferior imitation or likeness
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unanimous
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agreeing completely, united in opinion
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velocity
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swiftness, speed, the rate of speed
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vicissitude
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a change or variation occurring irregularly in the course of something
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voluptuary
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a person devoted to luxurious living, a sensualist, a sybarite
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wan
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sickly pale, colorless, pallid
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