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25 Cards in this Set
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Abhor
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To regard with extreme aversion; Detest utterly
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Accolade
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Any award, honor, or laudatory notice
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Ascetic
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A person who dedicated his or her life to a pursuit of contemplative ideals and practices extreme self-denial or self-mortification for religious reasons
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Bequeath
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To dispose of by last will (money, personal property)
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Charlatan
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A person who pretends to have more knowledge or skill than he or she possesses
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Conflagration
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A destructive fire, usually an extensive one
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Dearth
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An inadequate supply; scarcity; lack
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Diffidence
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Lacking confidence in one's own ability, worth, or fitness; timid/shy
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Effervescent
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bubbling; vivacious; lively
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Ethereal
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Light, airy, or tenuous
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Expunge
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To strike or blot out; erase
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Guile
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Insiduous cunning in attaining a goal; crafty deception
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Implausible
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Not having the appearance of truth or credibility
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Incongruity
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Out of place
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Insularity
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Detached; standling alone; isolated
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Morose
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Gloomily or sullenly ill-humored (person/mood)
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Placate
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To appease or pacify, exp. by concessions of conciliatory gestures
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Poignant
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Keenly distressing to the feelings
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Provincial
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Belonging or perculiar to some particular province; local
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Reiterate
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To say or do again repeatedly
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Spontaneous
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Coming or resulting from a natural impulse or tendency; without effort or premeditation
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Synthesis
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Combining of constituent elements of separate material or abstract entities into a single/unified entity
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Toxic
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Poisonous
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Vigilant
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Keenly watchful to detect danger; wary
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Voluble
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Characterized by a steady and continuous flow of words; fluent
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