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60 Cards in this Set
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Failing to accomplish an intended aim or purpose; only partially or imperfectly developed
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Abortive
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to spread news, reports or unsubstantiated rumors
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Bruit
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insolent or rude in speach or behavior; insultingly abusive; humiliating
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Contumelious
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a short saying; and authoritative statement
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Dictum
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to settle comfortable and firmly in position; to put or hide in a safe place
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Ensconce
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attacking or seeking to overthrow popular or traditional beliefs, ideas, or institutions
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Iconoclastic
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in or into the middle of a plot; into the middle of things
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In Medias Res
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mutually destructive; characterized by great slaughter and bloodshed
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Internecine
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lacking skill or dexterity; macking tact, perception, or judgment
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Maladroit
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excessively or effusively sentimental
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Maudlin
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to change or vary the intensity or pitch; to temper or soften; to regulate, adjust
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Modulate
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forchadowing and event to come; causing wonder or awe; self-consciously weighty, pompous
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Portentous
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knowledge of events or actions before they happen; foresight
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Prescience
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something given in exchange or return for something else
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Quid Pro Quo
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conductive to health of well-being; wholesome
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Salubrious
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characterized by riotous or unrestrained revelry or licentiousness
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Saturnalian
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a means of testing worth or genuineness
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Touchstone
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so shocking to the emotions as to lasting and substanial psycological damage
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Traumatic
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to weaken, debase, or corrupt; to impair the quality or value of
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Vitiate
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fond of making jokes; characteristic of a joker; playfully humorous or droll
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Waggish
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a state of being temporarily inactive, suspended, or set aside
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Abeyance
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having opposite and conflicting feelings about someone or something
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Ambivalent
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to set upon from all sides; to surround with an army; to trouble, harass
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Beleaguer
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full freedom or authority to act at one's own discretion
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Carte Blanche
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a sudden, violent, or devestating upheaval; a surging flood, deluge
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Cataclysm
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to corrupt morally, seduce; to indulge in dissipation; an act or occasion of dissipation or vice
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Debauch
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dazzling or conspicuous success or acclaim; great brilliance (of performace or achievement)
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Eclat
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overly demanding or hard to please; excessively careful in regard to details; easily disgusted
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Fastidious
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to jump or skip about playfully
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Gambol
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to soak or stain thoroughly; to fill the mind
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Imbue
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just beginning; not fully shaped or formed
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Inchoate
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malicious satire; to satirize, ridicule
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Lampoon
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capable of being formed into different shapes; capable of being altered, adapted, or influenced
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Malleable
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and agent or force inflicting vengeance or punishment; retribution itself; an unbeatable rival
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Nemesis
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to make a choice or decision
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Opt
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lacking in, hostile to, or smugly indifferent to cultural and artistic values or refinements; such a person
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Phillistine
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involving or characteristic of clever rogues or adventurers
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Picaresque
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nauseated or uneasy; causing neusea or uneasiness; trouble
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Queasy
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stubbourn; hard or difficult to manage; not responsive to treatment or cure
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Refractory
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the ability to say and do the right thing in any siuation; social competence
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Savoir-faire
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a departure from what is proper, right, expected, or normal; a lapse from a sound mental state
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Aberration
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for this specific purpose; improvised; with respect to this
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Ad Hoc
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the course or cause of fatal injury, death, destruction, or ruin; death or ruin iiself; poison
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Bane
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the intrusion of commonplace or trite material into a context whose tone is lofty or elevated; grossly insincere or exaggerated sentimentality; the lowest phase, nadir; an anticlimax, comedown
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Bathos
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ill-tempered, quarrelsome; difficult to get along or deal with
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Cantankerous
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the determination of right and wron in questions of conduct or conscience by the application of general ethical principles; specious argument, disengenuous, fault, intellectually dishonest reasoning or arguing; pretending to be naive
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Casuistry
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actually existing or in effect, although not legally required or sanctioned; in reality, actually
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De Facto
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the act of preying upon or plundering
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Depredation
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a sympathetic understanding of or indentification with the feelings, thoughts, or attitudes of someone or something else
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Empathy
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a forerunner, herald; to herald the approach of
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Harbinger
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the belief that the attainment of pleasure is life's chief aim; devotion to or pursuit of pleasure
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Hedonism
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lacking brilliance or vitality; dull
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Lackluster
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discontented with or in open defiance of prevailing conditions; such a person
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Malcontent
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flowing sweetly or smoothly; honeyed
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Mellifluous
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undue favoritism to or excessive patronage of one's relatives
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Nepotism
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to cater to or provide satisfaction for the low tastes or vices of others; a person who does this
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Pander
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a minor sin of offense; a trifling fault or shortcomming
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Peccadillo
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the principal dish of a meal; the principal event, incident, or item; an outstanding accomplishment
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Piece De Resistance
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to send or order back; in law, to send back to jail or to a lower court
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Remand
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a group of symptoms or signs that sollectively characterize or indicate a diseasi, disorder, abnormality, ect.
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Syndrome
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