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20 Cards in this Set
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(adj.) extremely difficult to understand; esoteric; arcane; recondite; occult
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abstruse
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(n.) an open or intentional insult; a slight; offense; (v.) to insult to one's face; confront; offend
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affront
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(n.) a false rumor, fabricated story; hoax
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canard
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(adj.) excessively ready to find fault; given to petty criticism; intened to trap, confuse, or show up; faultfinding; carping
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captious
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(adj.) aware, knowledgeable, informed; having jurisdiction; consciouis, acquainted
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cognizant
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(adj.) regretful for some misdeed or sin; plagued by a sense of guilt; thoroughly penitent; remorseful, rueful
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contrite
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(n.) the center of attraction, attention, or interest; something that serves to guide or direct; focus
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cynosure
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(adj.) well behaved, dignified, socially proper; seemly, becoming, tasteful
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decorous
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(v.) to think it appropriate or suitable to one's dignity to do something; to condescend; deem, stoop
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deign
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(adj., part.) thoroughbly dried out; divested of spirit or vitality; arid and uninteresting; dehydrated, shriveled, parched
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desiccated
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(n.) the power to produce a desired result; effectiveness, potency, reliability
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efficacy
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(v.) to bring into existence, give rise to, produce; to come into existence, assume form; beget, generate, cause, form
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engender
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(adj.) light, airy, delicate; highly refined; suggesting what is heavenly (rather than earthbound); heavenly, celestial, gossamer
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ethereal
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(n.) the front or face of a building; a surface appearance (as opposed to what may lie behind); exterior, surface, mask, pretense
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facade
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(adj.) revolting in an unnatural or morbid way; suggestive of someone who robs graves or otherwise preys on the dead; fiendish, barbaroud, monstrous
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ghoulish
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(adj.) not in keeping, unsuitable, incompatible; discordant, jarring
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incongruous
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(n.) a crafty, scheming, or underhanded action designed to accomplish some (usually evil) end; plot, scheme, maneuver
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machination
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(v.) to hypnotize, entrance; to fascinate, enthrall, bewitch
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mesmerize
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(n.) disgrace arising from shameful conduct; contempt, reproach; infamy, dishonor, odium, shame
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opprobrium
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(adj.) generally regarded as such; reputed; hypothesized, inferred; supposed, presumed
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putative
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