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21 Cards in this Set
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echelon
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levels or grades in an organization or activity, steplife formation
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badinage
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light playful conversation
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fatuous
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stupid or foolish in a self satified way
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lackidaisical
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lacking in spirit or interest, halfhearted
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juggernaut
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a massive and inescapable force or object that crushes whatever is in it's path
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exacerbate
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to make more violent, severe, bitter, or painful
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conciliate
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to overcome the distrust of, win over, to appease, pacify, reconcile
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arrant
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thoroughgoing, shameless, blatent
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countermand
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to cancel or reverse one order or command with another that is contrary to the first
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saturnine
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of gloomy or surely disposition; cold or sluggish in mood
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macabre
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grisly, gruesome, horrible, distressing, having death as a subject
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recant
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to withdraw a statement or belief to which one has previously been committed, ronounce
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paucity
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an adiquate quantity, scarcity, dearth
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raze
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to tear down, destroy completely,cut or scrape off
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portend
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to indicate beforehand that something is about to happen, to give advance warning of
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melange
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a mixture; medley
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saturate
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to soak thoroughly, full to capacity; to satify fully
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slough
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to cast off, discard, to ger rid of something objectionably or unnecessary
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substantive
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pertaining to the essence or substance of something; existing in its own right; real, not apparent, soolid; of major importance
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irrefutable
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that cannor be disproved; beyond arguement
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allege
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to assert without proof or confirmation
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