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19 Cards in this Set
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perfunctory
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automatic, indifferent, superficial, mechanical
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Peremptory
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positive, final, stubborn, impervious, decisive, resolute
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Plagiarism
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appropriation, theft
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Preclude
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forestall, bar, hinder, frustrate, overt
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Paragon
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model, exemplar, pattern
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Platitude
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truism, bromide, flatness, triteness, insipidity
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Paradox
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anomaly, self-contradiction
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Precarious
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unsettled, hazardous
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Pernicious
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harmful, destructive, deleterious, malicious, ruinour, deadly
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Plebian
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popular, undistinguished, lows-born, ill-breed
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Perspicacious
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acute, astute, sagcious, shrewd, discerning
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Pertinacity
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persevearance, obstinacy, inflexibility
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Precedent
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antecedent
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Parsimonious
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avaricious, misery, niggardly, penurious
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Plebiscite
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referendum
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Plethora
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oversatiety, overabundance, turgidness, inflation, boatiness, bombast
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Pastoral
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bucolic, rustic, idyllic, arcadian
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Paraphrase
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version, rewording
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Paramount
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predominant, pre-eminent, supreme, dominant, principal, cheif
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