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22 Cards in this Set
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burnish
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to make smooth or glossy by rubbing, polish, gloss, brightness, luster
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ebullient
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overflowing with enthusiasm and excitment, boiling, bubbling
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deletable
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delightful, highly enjoyable, deliciouly flavored, savory
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abrogate
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to repeal, cancel, declare, null and void
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asperity
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roughness, severity, biterness, or tartness
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detritus
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losse bits and pieces of material resulting from disintegration or wearing away, fragments taht result from any destruction
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desuetude
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disuse, the state of being discontinued
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ambient
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completely surrounding
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cabal
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small group working in secret
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deprecate
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to express mild disaproval to bellitle
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eclectic
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drawn from different sources, one whose beliefs are drawn from various sources
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sequester
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to set apart separate for a special purpose to take possession of and hold in custody
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moribund
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dying, on the way out
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necromancer
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one who claims to reveal or influence the future through magic especially communication with the dead magician or wizard
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winnow
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to get rid of something unwanted delete to sift through to obtain what s desirable to remove that chaff from wheat by blowing air on it to fan
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flaccid
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limp not firm lacking vigor or effectiveness
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rife
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common prevalent happening often full abounding plentiful abundant
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inexorable
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inflexible beyond influemce relentless unyielding
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onerous
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burdensome oppressive involving hardship or difficulty
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emanate
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to proceed or come forth from some point of orgin issue originate to send forth
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impecunious
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having little or no money
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rudiments
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the parts of any subject or discipline that are learned first, the ealiest stanges of anything
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