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20 Cards in this Set
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abate
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diminish, decrease, subside, let up.
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adulation
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adoration, idolization, admiration, hero-worship
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anathema
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fear of; malediction, imprecation, abomination.
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astute
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shrewd, acute, sagacious, judicious wily.
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avarice
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a greedy desire for wealth. cupidity, rapacity, acquisitiveness.
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culpable
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guilty, delinquent, deccant, blameworthy.
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dilatory
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stalling, slow,tardy, laggard.
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egregious
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glaring, flagrant, blatant.
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equivocate
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to talk out of both sides of the mouth, palter, hedge
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evanescent
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vanishing, soon passing away, ephemral, transient, transitory.
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irresolute
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indecisive, vacillating, wavering.
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nebulous
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hazy, fuzzy, cloudy, vague, murky, opaque, indeterminate.
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novice
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neophyte, tyro, trainee, apprentice.
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penury
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extreme poverty. destitution, want, indigence.
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pretentious
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done for show, striving to make a big impression. inflated, ostentatious, affected.
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recapitulate
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review, summerize, sum up, go over.
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resuscitate
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revitalize, reahimate, restore, reactivate.
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slovenly
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unkempt, slatternly, slipshod, lax
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supposition
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assumption, presumption, hypothesis
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torpid
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sluggish, lethargic, languid
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