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20 Cards in this Set
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diminish, decrease, subside, let up
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Abate
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adoration, idolization, hero-worship
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Adulation
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malediction, imprecation, abomination
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Anathema
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shrewd, acute, sagacious, judicious, wily
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Astute
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cupidity, rapacity, acquistiveness
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Avarice
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guilty, delinquent, peccant, blameworthy
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Culpable
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stalling, slow, tardy, laggard
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Dilatory
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glaring, flagrant, blatant
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Egregious
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to talk out of both sides of one's mouth, palter, hedge
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Equivocate
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ephemeral, transient, transitory
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Evanescent
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indecisive, vacillating, wavering
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Irresolute
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hazy, fuzzy, cloudy, vague, murky, opaque, indeterminate
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Nebulous
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neophyte, tyro, trainee, apprentice
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Novice
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destitution, want, indigence
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Penury
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inflated, ostentatious, affected
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Pretentious
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review, summarize, sum up, go over
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Recapitulate
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revitalize, reanimate, restore, reactivate
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Resuscitate
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unkempt, slatternly, slipshod, lax
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Slovenly
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assumption, presumption, hypothesis
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Supposition
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sluggish, lethargic, otiose, languid
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Torpid
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