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60 Cards in this Set
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Austere |
Severe or stern manner (luxurious) |
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Beneficent |
Acts of kindness and charity |
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Cadaverous |
Pale, resembling a corpse |
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Concoct |
Fabricate |
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Crass |
Coarse,unfeeling |
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Debase |
To degrade |
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Desecrate |
Defile, violate |
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Disconcert |
Upset, rattle |
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Grandiose |
Majestic, grand in an impressive way |
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Inconsequential |
Unimportant |
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Infraction |
Breaking of law or obligation |
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Mitigate |
To make milder or softer |
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Pillage |
Ravage, rob of goods by open force |
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Prate |
Talk a great deal in a foolish fashion |
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Redoubtable |
Inspiring fear or awe |
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Reprove |
Scold, chastise |
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Punctilious |
Very careful and exact |
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Restitution |
Restoring something/one to rightful owner |
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Stalwart |
Strong and sturdy, valient |
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Vunerable |
Capable of being wounded/damaged, ungaurded |
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Acrimonious |
Bitter in temper or tone (cordial,gentle) |
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Bovine |
Resembling cow/ox, sliggish |
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Consternation |
Dismay,confusion |
Doctor who |
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Corpulent |
Fat,bulky body (emanciated) |
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Disavow |
To deny responsibility |
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Dispassionate |
Impartial,free from emotion |
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Dissension |
Disagreement,strife |
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Dissipate |
To cause to disappear |
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Expurgate |
To cleanse,bowdlerize |
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Gauntlet |
An armored glove, a challenge |
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Hypothetical |
Based on assumption |
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Ignoble |
Mean,low,base |
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Impugn |
To call into question,deny |
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Intemperate |
Immoderate,lacking self conrol |
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Odium |
Hatred, contempt |
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Perfidy |
Faithlessness, betrayal |
Macbeth |
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Relegate |
To place in a lower position |
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Squeamish |
Oversensative,priggish |
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Subservient |
Submissively obedient |
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Susceptible |
Vulnerable |
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Abate |
To become less |
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Adulation |
Adoration, idolization |
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Anathema |
Object of intense dislike ,malediction |
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Astute |
Showing practical wisdom, sagacious(empty headed, dumb) |
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Avarice |
Greedy desire for wealth, aquisitiveness,rapacity |
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Culpable |
Deserving blame,guilty,delinquent,peccant (innocent,laudable,meritorious) |
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Dilatory |
Procrastinate, laggard (expeditious) |
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Egregious |
Standing out from mass,flagrant,blatant (paltry,piddling) |
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Equivocate |
Be vague, ambiguous,hedge(speaking ones mind) |
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Evanescent |
Vanishing,ephemeral (imperishable) |
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Irresolute |
Unable to make up mind,vacillating (determined) |
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Nebulous |
Cloudlike,hazy (focused) |
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Novice |
Beginner of an activity,neophyte,tyro (veteran) |
Catgirl |
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Penury |
Extreme poverty(affluence) |
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Pretentious |
Ostentatious,strive to make big impression (unaffected) |
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Recapitulate |
To summarize |
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Resuscitate |
Revive |
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Slovenly |
Untidy |
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Supposition |
Assumption |
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Torpid |
Inactive,lethargic,languid (energetic) |
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