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179 Cards in this Set
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Congenial
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Pleasant, friendly.
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Ignominious
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Shameful
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Contumely
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Rudeness or insolence
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Iniquity
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Gross immorality
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Lurid
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Shocking or gruesome
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Paramour
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An adulterous lover
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Commiserate
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To sympathize with or feel for another
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Exhortation
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An urgent appeal
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insidious
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Subtlety spreading harm
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Caprice
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An impulsive change of mind
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Anathema
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A curse
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Preternatural
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Surpassing the norm or usual standard
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Physiognomy
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The study of the face
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Expatiate
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To speak or write at length
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Emaciated
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Very thin, often by starcation
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Vehemence
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Forcefulness or intensity
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Efficacious
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The quality of being effective
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Sagacity
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Keen discernment; widsom
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Zenith
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The highest point, often in the sky
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Somniferous
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Sleep inducing
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Deplorable
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Contemptible
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Enumerate
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To name one by one
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Innocuous
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Harmless
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Maroon
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To abandon on a desloate island
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palpable
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Perceptible by feeling or touch
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Seethe
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To be violently excited or agitated
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Unbridled
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Being without restrain
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Conjecture
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A guess often based on assumptions
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Disenfranchise
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To deprive of any right privilege or power
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Equivocal
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Ambiguous
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Hackney
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Commonplace or trite
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Malediction
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The calling down of a curse or curses
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Onus
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A burden or responsibility
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Priggish
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Conceited
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Crucible
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A trying and purifying test or agency
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Caustic
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Sarcastic and severe
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Irascible
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Prone to anger
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Loathe
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To abominate; dislike
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Perambulate
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To walk about
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Recur
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To happen again or repeatedly, especially at regular intervals.
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Sequester
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To cause to withdraw or tertire, as from society or public life
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Sanctimonious
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Making an ostentatious display or hypocritical pretense of holiness or piety
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Recidivist
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A confirmed criminal
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Quiescence
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Quiet
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Proscribe
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To reject, as a teaching or a practice, with condemnation or denunciation
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Moratorium
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An emergency legislation authorizing a government suspend some action temporarily
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Licentious
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Wanton; wild
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Hirsute
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Having a hairy covering
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Acrimonious
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Full of bitterness
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Belie
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To misrepresent
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Vituperate
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To rebuke or criticize harshly
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Scintillate
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Sparkle; flash; be animate; be full of life
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Tractable
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Easily led or controlled
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Perfunctory
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Half-heatred; without feeling or thought
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Munificent
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Extraordinarily generous
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Sycophant
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A servile flatterer, especially of those in authority
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Garrulous
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Given to constant trivial talking
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Abrade
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To wear away the surface of some part of by friction
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Diadem
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A crown
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Abscond
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To depart suddenly and secretly, as for the purpose of escaping arrest
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Derision
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Ridicule
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Mendacious
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Untrue; usually harmfully or maliciously untrue
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Aggrandize
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To cause to appear greatly
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Banal
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Commonplace
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Benevolent
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Loving others and actively desirous of their well being
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Cajole
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To impose on or dupe by flattering speech
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Candid
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Straightforward
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Pariah
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A member of a degraded class; a social outcast
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Exonerate
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To relieve or vindicate from accusation, imputation, or blame
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Acrid
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Harshly pungent or bitter
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Zeitgeist
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The intellectual and moral tendencies that characterize any age or epoch
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Vociferous
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Making a loud outcry
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Sophistical
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Fallacious
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Prolix
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Verbose; wordy
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Harangue
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A tirade
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Evanescent
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Fleeting; short lived
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Convival
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Devoted to feasting, or to good-fellowship in eating or drinking
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Indolent
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Habitually inactive or idle
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Palatial
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Magnificent
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Reproof
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An expression of disapproval or blame personally addressed to one censured
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Similitude
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Similarity
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Taciturn
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Disinclined to conversation
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Vacuous
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Empty
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Minutia
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A small or unimportant particular detail
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Imbroglio
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A misunderstanding attended by ill feeling, perplexity or strife
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Laudable
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Praiseworthy
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Obdurate
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Impassive to feelings of humanity or pity
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Petulant
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Displaying impatience
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Shiftless
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Wanting in resource, energy, or executive ability; without direction
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Vacillate
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To waver usually between two decisions or beliefs
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Conciliatory
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Tending to reconcile
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Duplicity
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Double dealing
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Harbinger
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One who or that which foreruns and announces the coming of any person or thing
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Listless
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lacking energy; lethargic
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Panacea
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A remedy or medicine proposed for/or professing to cure all diseases
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Reprieve
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To grant a respite from punishment
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Travail
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Hard or agonizing labor
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Bellicose
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Warlike
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Disparate
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Essentially different
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Abominate
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To hate violently
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Dotage
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Senility; feeblemindedness of old age
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Fastidious
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Difficult to please; squemish; fussy; finicky
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Evince
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To show clearly; to indicate
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Fetid
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Smelly
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Inchoate
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Not yet fully formed
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Mercurial
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Capricious; quick and changing; fickle
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Staid
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Serious and sedate; sober
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Occlude
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Shut; close; obstruct
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Rapport
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Close relationship; emotional closeness; harmony
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Tactile
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Pertaining to the organs or sense of touch
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Obstreperous
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Boisterous; noisy and uncontrollable
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Perspicuous
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Of something plainly expressed; easy to understand
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Quagmire
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Bog; marsh; complex or dangerous situation from which it is difficult to free oneself
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Rancor
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Long-lasting hatred; bitterness
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Saccharine
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Cloying sweet; characteristic of sugar
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Olition
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Act of using one's will; act of making a conscious choice
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Tautological
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Needlessly repititious; wordy
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Obloquy
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Slander; disgrace; infamy
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Seamy
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Sordid; base; filthy; unwholesome
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Sedulous
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Diligent; assiduous; paying attention
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Sojourn
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Temporary stay
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Spartan
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without attention to comfort; lacking luxury and comfort
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Pastoral
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Rural; of rural life; idyllic
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Yokel
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A rustic; country bumpkin
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Tensile
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Capable of being stretched
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Craven
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Cowardly
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Scad
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A great quantity/amount
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Torrid
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Hot or scorching weather; passionate
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Uncuous
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Oily; insincerely suave; smarmy
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Urbane
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Suave; refined in manner; elegant
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Verisimilitude
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Appearance of truth; quality of appearing to be true or real
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Desiccate
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To dry up
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Bowdlerize
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Expurgate;clean; remove offensive parts of a book
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Wanderlust
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Strong longing to travel
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Febrile
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Feverish
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Chcanery
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Tickery;Deception
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Dearth
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Scarcity lack of
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Excoriate
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Scold with biting harshness; censure strongly
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Invective
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Abuse; slander
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Salubrious
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Healthful; conducive to health or well being
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Monomania
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The unreasonable pursuit of one idea
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Nugatory
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Having no power or force
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Polemics
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The art of controversy or disputation
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Specious
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Plausible but not likely
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Vertigo
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Dizziness
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Querulous
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Habitually complaning
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Aria
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An operatic solo; a song sung by one person
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Raiment
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Clothing; garments
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Spurious
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False; counterfeit
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Myopic
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Nearsighted; lacking foresight
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Sylvan
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Pertaining to the woods or the country
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Altruistic
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Unselfishly generous; concerned for others
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Fracas
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Brawl
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Asperity
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Sharpness; roughness; severity
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Largess
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Generous gift (given to peoble who do not have enough)
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Bilious
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Suffering from indigestion; irritable; easily irritated
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Callow
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youthful; immature; inexperienced
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Quisling
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A traitor who aids invaders
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Waggish
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Humorous; mischievous; tricky
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Cozen
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Cheat; hoodwink; swindle
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Crepuscular
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Of or like twilight; dim
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Propitiate
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To appease; conciliate; make peaceful
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Dank
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Damp; unpleasantly wet
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Vulpine
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Like a fox; crafty
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Endemic
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Prevailing among a specific group; peculiar to a particular region or people
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Yen
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Strong desire
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Hubris
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Arrogance
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Idyllic
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Charmingly carefree
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Amicable
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Peaceful
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Immolate
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Offer or kill as a sacrifice (by fire)
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Juggernaut
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Irresistible crushing force
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Killjoy
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A grouch
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Lachrymose
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Producing tears
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Macerate
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To soften by soaking in liquid; waste away
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Noxious
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Harmful
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Opaque
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Not transparent; dark
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Ossify
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Harden into bone; become hard/ unchanging in one's ideas
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Pander
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To cater to (the low desires of others)
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Bilk
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Swindle; Cheat
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