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20 Cards in this Set
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ameliorate
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improve, make better, amend, better
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aplomb
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pois, assurance, great self-confident, composure, levelheadedness
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bombastic
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pompous, overblown in language, inflaced,
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callow
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without experience, green, raw, unfledged
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drivel
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saliva, mucus, foolish, balderdash, tommyrot
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epitome
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summary, condensed account, abstract, digest, model
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exhort
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urge strongly, entreat, implore, adjure
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ex officio
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by virtue of holding office,
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infringe
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violoate, trespass, encrach, impinge, poach
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ingratiate
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tame oneself agreeable, cozy up to, curry favor with
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interloper
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one who movies in where he or she is not wanted. intruder, meddler, buttinsky
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intrinsic
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belonging to someone or something by its very nature, immanent, organic
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inveigh
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to make a violent attack in words, rail, harangue, fulminate, remonstrate
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lassitude
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weariness of body or mind, fatigue, torpor
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millenium
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period of one thousand years, chiliad, golden age
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occult
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mysterious, magical, esoteric, arcane, abstruse
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permeate
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spread through,
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precipitate
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fall as moisture, provoke, produce, reckless, impetuous
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stringent
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strict, severe, sharp or bitter to taste, stern, rigorous
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surmise
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think/believe without evidence, infer, gather
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