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75 Cards in this Set
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epistle
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a letter
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avid
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enthusiastic; extremely interested
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gadfly
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an irritating or persistant person
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humility
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humbleness; modesty
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dolorous
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exibiting sorrow or pain
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gargantuan
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huge
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arduous
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difficult
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affable
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friendly
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grandiloquent
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pompous of high-flown in speech
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agrarian
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having to do with farms
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grimace
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scowl
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harangue
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a long, stronly expressed speech or lecture
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formidable
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arousing fear or awe
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sycophant
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a flatterer
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explicit
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clearly and openly stated
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altercation
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a heated argument
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lexicon
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a dictionary
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hue
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a particular shade of a given color
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galvanize
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to startle into sudden activity
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sanction
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permission; support
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hyperbole
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extreme exaggeration
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ominous
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threatening
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audacity
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nerve
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evince
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to prove
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implacable
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unable to be appeased or pcaified; inflexible; relentless
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exhort
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to urge on with stirring words
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incarcerate
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to put into prison
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incisive
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sharp; cutting straight to the heart of the matter
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expedient
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practical; effective; providing an immediate advantage
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pertinent
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having to do with the subject at hand
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inert
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unable to act or move
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circumvent
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to get around; to bypass; avoid
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clandestine
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secret
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acquit
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to find not guilty of a fault or crime; absolve
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deprecate
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to express strong disapproval of
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barrister
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lawyer (British)
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adulation
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excessive praise or admiration
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culinary
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having to do with the kitchen
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bawdy
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indecent; humorously obscene
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chastise
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to punish severely
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jocose
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joking; humorous
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myriad
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n. a very large number
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latent
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present, but not active
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pernicious
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destructive, deadly
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frugal
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thrifty; economical
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levity
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lightness of disposition; lack of seriousness
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hoax
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a practical joke
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amicable
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friendly; peaceable
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obstreperous
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aggressively boisterous; stuborn and defiant
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enraptured
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delighted beyond measure
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marital
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having to do with marriage
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bask
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to expose oneself to plesent warmth
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genial
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friendly; admirable
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charlatan
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one who pretends to have professional knowledge in order to swindle others; fraud
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mundane
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commonplace
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fickle
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likely to change on a whim or without apparent reason
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juggernaut
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a terrible destructive or irresistible force
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naive
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simple in outlook; unsuspecting
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nocturnal
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having to do with night
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novice
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a beginner
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noxious
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harmful to the health
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connive
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to cooperate secretly in wrongdoing
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chutzpah
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nerve; audacity
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liege
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a lord or master
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odium
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hatred
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crass
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coarse; tasteless
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hypercritical
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overly critical; too severe in judgement
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fallacy
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a mistaken notion; a misconception
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complacent
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self-satisfied; confident
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befuddle
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to confuse
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pandemonium
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a wild disorder
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parsimonious
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excessively thrifty; cheap; stingy
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verbose
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using more words than are needed; wordy
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laudable
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worthy of praise
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indiscreet
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not wise or judicious
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