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140 Cards in this Set
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Affable
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Courteous, pleasant
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Aggrandize
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Increase power/wealth. Make greater
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Amorphous
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Shapeless
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Aura
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an atmosphere
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Contraband
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smuggled goods
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Erudite
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Learned, bookish
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Gossamer
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Thin, light, delicate
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Infer
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To arrive at a conclusion on the basis of thought
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Inscrutable
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Not able to be understood
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Insular
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Narrow or isolated outlook
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Irrevocable
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Not able to be changed; irreversible
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Propensity
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natural inclination
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Querulous
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peevish
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remonstrate
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to protest against
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Repudiate
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disown or reject
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Resilient
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able to return to orginal shape or form
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Reverberate
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echo; to be reflected repeatedly
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Scurrilous
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abusive;vulgar
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Sedulous
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persistent; determined
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Sleazy
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thin or flimsy in texture;cheap
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Amnesty
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General pardon for a crime against the government
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Autonomy
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Self-government
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Axiomatic
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Self-evident
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Blazon
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adorn, embellish
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Caveat
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a warning or caution
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Equitable
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fair
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Extricate
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to free from difficulties
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Filch
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to steal
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Flout
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mock
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Fractious
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troublesome, unruly
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Precept
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a rule
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Salutary
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helpful
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Scathing
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harsh
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Scourge
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to whipl source of a severe punishment
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Sepulchral
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extremlely gloomy or dismal
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Soporific
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Something that causes sleep
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Straitlaced
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extremely strict
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Transient
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fleeting, lasting only a short time.
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Unwieldy
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not easily carried or handled
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Vapid
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dull, uninteresting
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Anomalous
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abnormal
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Aspersion
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damaging or derogetory statement.
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Bizarre
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Very strange
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Brusque
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abrupt, blunt
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Cajole
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coax, pursuade using flattery
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Castigate
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to punish severely
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Contrive
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plan with ingenuity
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Demagogue
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a leader who makes false claims to gain popularity
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Disabuse
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to free from error
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Ennui
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dissatisfaction because of lack of interest.
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Fetter
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To chain or shackle
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Heinous
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very wicked
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Immutable
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constant; not subject to change
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Insurgent
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a rebel; to rise in revolt
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Megalomania
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thinking youre better than you really are
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Sinecure
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postion requiring little or no work
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Surreptitious
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stealthy, secret
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Transgress
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go beyond limit; to sin or violate the law
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Transmute
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to change from one thing to form another
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Vicarious
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performed, or experienced by someone through another person.
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Austere
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severe or stern
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Beneficent
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doing good
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Cadaverous
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pale, gaunt
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Concoct
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prepare by combining ingredients
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Crass
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coarse, unfeeling, stupid
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Debase
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to lower in character; to degrade
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Desecrate
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To pollute or defile
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Disconcert
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to confuse
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Gradiose
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grand in an impressive or stately way
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Inconsequential
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unimportant
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Infraction
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a breaking of the law
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Mitigate
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to make softer
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pillage
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to rob or plunder using force
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Prate
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to talk a lot with no point
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Punctillious
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very careful and exact
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Redoubtable
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inspiring fear or awe
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Reprove
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to find fault with. scold
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Restitution
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to return something to its proper owner or state
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Stalwart
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strong and sturdy; strong and sturdy person
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Vulnerable
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open to attack
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Acrimonious
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stinging or bitter in tone
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Bovine
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resemblind a cow or ox
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Consternation
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dismay, confusion
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Corpulent
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fat
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Disavow
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to deny responsibility
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Dispassionate
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calm, free of emotion
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Dissension
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disagreement
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Dissipate
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to cause to disappear
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Expurgate
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to remove questionable passages from a text; censor; purify
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Gauntlet
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an armored protected glove, a challenge
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Hypothetical
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based on an assumtioin or guess
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ignoble
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mean, low
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Impugn
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to call into question
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Intemperate
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lacking self control
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odium
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hatred, contempt
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perfidy
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faithlessness
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relegate
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to place in a lower postion; banish
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squeamish
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inclined to nausea
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subservient
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subordinate in role
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susceptible
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open to; easily influenced
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Abate
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to make less in amount or degree
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Adulation
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excessive praise of flattery
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Anathema
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object of intense dislike
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Astute
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shrewd
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Avarice
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a greedy desire
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Culpable
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deserving blame
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Dilatory
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tending to delay or procrastinate
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Egregious
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conspicuous, standing out from the mass
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Equivocate
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to speak or act in a way that allows for more than one interpretation
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Evanescent
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fleeting; light and airy
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Irresolute
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unable to make up ones mind
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Nebulous
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cloudlike
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Novice
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A beginner
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Penury
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extreme poverty
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Pretentious
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done for show or to make an impression
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Recapitulate
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recap
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Resuscitate
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to revive
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Slovenly
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untidy
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Suppostion
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something that is assumed
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Torpid
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inactive
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Accure
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To grow or accumulate over time
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Annotation
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A note or comment
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Bedlam
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A state or scene of uproar or confusion
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Covert
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Hidden
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Debonair
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Pleasant or coutreous
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Dun
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to demad insistently
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Efficacious
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effective
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Equanimity
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calmness
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Fortuitous
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accidental
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Gist
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the main point
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Gratuitous
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Freely given
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Imperious
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Overbearing or arrogant
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Invective
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abusive language
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Motley
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great variety
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Munificent
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lavish
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Procrastinate
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put off
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Provocative
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tending to produce strong feeling or respong
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Recondite
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exceeding ordinary knowlege
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Reprobate
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a vicious person; wicked; to condemn
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Sedentary
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calling for continued sitting
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