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22 Cards in this Set
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aware, knowledgeable, informed
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cognizant
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to think it appropriate or suitable to one's dignity to do something, to condenscend
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deign
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regretful for some misdeed or sin, plauged by a sense of guit, thoroughly penitent
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contrite
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extremely difficult to understand
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abstuse
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a flase rumor fabricated story
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canard
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well behaved dignified socially proper
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decorous
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the power to produce a desired result
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efficacy
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the center of attreaction attention or interest something that severs to guide or direct
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cynosure
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an open or intentional insult a slight to insult to one's face confront
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affront
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throughtly dried out divested of spirit or citality uninteresting
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desiccated
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excessively ready to find falt given to petty criticism intended to trap confuse or show up
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captious
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a craty scheming or inderhanded action designed to accomplish some evil end
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machiation
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to seize upon to the exclusion of others take over or appropriate to be presented in place of
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preempt
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the front or face of a building a surface appearance
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facade
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light airy delicate highly refined suggesting what is heavenly
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ethereal
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genrally regarded as such reputed hypthesized inferred
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putative
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disgrace arising from shameful conduct infamy contempt reproach
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opprobrium
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highly oversimplified simpleminded
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simplistic
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to hypnotize to fascinate enthrall
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mesmerize
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to bring into exsitence give rise to produce to come into existence assume form
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engender
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revolting in an unnatural or morbid way suggestive of someone who robs graves or otherwise preys on the dead
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ghoulish
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not in keepong unsuitable incompatible
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incongruous
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