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36 Cards in this Set
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Specious
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Deceptive, apparently good or valid but lacking real merit
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Sear
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To make or become dry and withered, to char or scorch the surface, make hard or unfeeling
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Satiate
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To satisfy completely, fill to excess
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Salient
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Leaping, jumping, prominent, standing out
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Pernicious
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Extremely harmful, deadly
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Inculcate
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To impress on the mind by repetition,teach persistently and earnestly
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Heresy
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An opinion different from accepted belief, denial of an idea that is sacred
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Gauche
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Awkward, lacking in social graces, tactless, clumsy
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Foist
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To impose by fraud, to pass of as worthy or genuine, bring about by stealth dishonestly or coercion
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Florid
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Highly colored, reddish, excessively ornate or showy
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Dowdy
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Poorly dressed, shabby, lacking smartness and good taste
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Disseminate
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To scatter or spread widely
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Discursive
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Passing aimlessly from one place or subject to another, rambling, roving
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Corroborate
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To confirm, make more certian, bolster, substantiate
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Contingent
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Likely but not certain to happen, happening by change
or a rep group forming part of larger body |
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Censurable
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Deserving of blame or correction
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Abstemious
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Moderate, soaring, abstinent and self disciplined
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Sedentary
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Characterized by continued sitting, remaining in one place
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Reprobate
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Depraved, vicious or unprincipled person, scoundrel
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Recondite
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Exceeding ordinary knowledge r understanding
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Provocative
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Tending to produce strong feeling or response, arousing desire or appetite, annoying
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Munificent
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Extremely generous and lavish
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Motley
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Showing great variety, composed of different elements
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Invective
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Strong denunciation or condemnation, abusive Lang
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Imperious
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Overbearing, arrogant, seeming to dominate
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Gratuitous
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Freely given not called for by circumstances unwarranted
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Gist
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The essential part, essence
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Foruitous
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Occurring by happy chance
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Equanimity
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Clamness, composure, refusal to panic
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Efficacious
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Effective, producing results
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Dun
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To demand insistently, ESP in payment of a debt
or creditor or dark, dull, dingy |
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Debonair
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Pleasant, courteous, lighthearted, polished in manner
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Covert
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Hidden, disguised, secret
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Bedlam
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State it scene of uproar or confusion
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Annotation
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Critical, explanatory note or comment
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Accrue
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To grow or accumulate over time, happen as natural result
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