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10 Cards in this Set
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Obsequious
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(adj.) Promptly obedient and submissive, cringing, fawning, compliant, in an excessive way
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Connubial
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(adj.) Of or relating to marriage, matrimonial, conjugal
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Inchoate
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(adj.) Not yet completed or fully developed, rudimentary, just begun, lacking order of perfection (because it's new)
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Spurious
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(adj.) Not genuine, authentic, or true; counterfeit; not from the claimed or pretented source
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Aegis
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(n.) Support, protection, control
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Pertinacious
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(Adj.) Holding tenaciously to a purpose, or opinion; resolute; extremely or objectionably persistent
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Sententious
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(Adj.) Abounding in, or given to , pompous or aphoristic moralizing, concise and full of meaning (both negative and positive connotations)
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Oscillate
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(V.) To swing or move to and fro, as a pendulum does, to vary or vacillate between different beliefs, opinions, conditions, etc.
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Bestial
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(Adj.) lacking in intelligence or reason, beast-like, below the dignity of reason of humanity
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Nonchalant
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(Adj.) Seemingly to be cool, unconcerned or indifferent
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