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79 Cards in this Set
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Germane
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Relevant,appropriate,fitting
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Insatiable
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unquenchable,ravenous,voracious
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Intransigent
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Effusing to compromise, irreconcilable
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Largesse
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lavish or bountiful contributions
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substantiate
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to establish by evidence prove
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Accost
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to confront in a challenging or aggressive manner
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Avid
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intensely eager
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Brackish
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Briny Saline
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Celerity
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promptness alacrity speed
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Gambit
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any opening move that involves risk in order to gain a later advantage
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incendiary
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One who causes strife setting or causing fires
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Eulogy
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a formal statement of commendation
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articulate
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able to imply language clearly and forcefully
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dissemble
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to disguise or conceal deliberately gives false impression
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decry
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to display clearly to make evident to provoke
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nefarious
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wicked depraved devoid of moral standards
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Utopian
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founded upon or involving a visionary view of an ideal world
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atrophy
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wasting away of body organ to waste away
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Disarray
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disorder confusion
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glean
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to gather bit by bit
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incarcerate
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to imprison confine jail
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incumbent
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required obligatory
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ludicrous
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ridiculous laughable absurd
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enervate
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to weaken or lessen the mental moral or physical vigor of
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fecund
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fruitful in offspring or vegetation
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fiat
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an arbitrary order or decree
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nuance
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subtle variation delicate gradation of shade difference
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ignominy
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shame and disgrace
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penchant
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strong attraction or inclination
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agbistuc
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one who believes that nothing can be known about god without faith, a skeptic
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derelict
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someone or something abandoned or neglected
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diabtribe
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bitter verbal attack
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complicity
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involvement in wrongdoing state of being an accomplice
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moot
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upend to debate unresolved
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motif
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a principal idea feature theme or element a repeated or dominant figure in a design
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ephemeral
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lasting only a short time short lived
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Furtive
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done slyly or secretly, shifty
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garish
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Glaring tastelessly showy or overdecorated in a vulgar way
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Illusory
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misleading deceptive not based on reality
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misanthrope
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a person who hates or despise people
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indigent
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needy impoverished
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Inordinate
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far too great excessive
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allege
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assert without proof or confirmation
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conciliate
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to over the distrust of appease pacify
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lackadaisical
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lacking spirit half hearted
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irrefutable
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impossible to disprove
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slough
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to cast off discard
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rze
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to tear down destroy completely
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paucity
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an inadequate quantity scarcity dearth
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bucolic
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characteristic of the countryside rural
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collusion
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secret agreement of cooperation
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dilettante
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one who engages in activity in an amateurish way
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increment
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increase addition
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impertubable
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not easily excited emotionally steady
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benign
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gentle kind forgiving halving a favorable or beneficial effect
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charlatan
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one who feigns knowledge or ability a pretender imposer or quack
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decimate
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to kill or destroy a large part of
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foible
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a weak point failing minor flaw
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obsequious
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excessively submissive often for purely self interested reasons
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obtuse
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blunt not coming to a point
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rebuff
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to snub to repel to drive away
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rebuff
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to snub to repel to drive away
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shambles
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a state of complete disorder
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sporadic
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occurring at irregular intervals
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burnish
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to make something glossy of smooth by rubbing
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deprecate
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to express mild disapproval to belittle
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eclectic
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drawn from different sources
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inexorable
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inflexible beyond influence unyielding
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rudiments
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the parts of any subject or discipline that are learned first the earliest stage of something
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sequester
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to set apart to separate for special purpos
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aesthetic
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pertaining to beauty sensitive or responsive to beauty
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espouse
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to take up and support to become attached to adopt
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fetish
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an object believed to have magical powers
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gregarious
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living together with in a heard or group sociable
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laconic
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concise using few words
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perfunctory
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done in a half hearted manner without interest
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contrite regretful from misdeed or sin
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efficacy the power to produce the desired result
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ethereal
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light airy suggesting what is heavenly
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facade
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the front of face of a building surface appearance
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