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20 Cards in this Set
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aprobation
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commendation, sanction, praise, approval
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assuage
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mitigate, alleviate, slake, allay, make easier, calm,
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coalition
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combination, union, federation
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decadence
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decline, decay, degeneration, corruption
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elicit
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draw forth, evoke, extract, educe
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expostulate
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attempt to dissade, protest, remonstrate
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hackneyed
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lack freshness, banal,trite,
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hiateus
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a gap, opening, pause, lacuna
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innuendo
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hind, indirent suggestion, insinuation, intimation
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intercede
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to plead for someone else, intervene, mediate
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jaded
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wearied, workout, dulled, sated, surfieted, cloyed
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lurid
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causing shock, horror, revulsion, gruesome, gory, baleful, ghastly
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meritorious
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worthy, deserving merit, laudable
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petulant
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peevish, annoyed by trifles, irritable, testy
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prerogative
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special right/privilage, perquisite, perk
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provincial
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outlying area, marrow-minded, parochial, insular, naive
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simulate
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make a pretense of, imitate, feign, pretend
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transcend
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rise above/beyond, exceed
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umbrage
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shade cast by trees
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unctuous
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excessively smooth/smug, mealymouthed, servile, faning
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