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80 Cards in this Set
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anomalous
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atypical, unusual, aberrant, exceptional
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aspersion
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damaging statement, innuendo, calumny, denigration
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bizarre
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grotesque, fantastic, outlandish
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brusque
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abrupt, blunt, curt, tactless, ungracious, gruff, rough
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cajole
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wheedle, inveigle,
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castigate
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chastise, rebuke, censure, upbraid
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contrive
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think up, devise, concoct, fabricate
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demagogue
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rabble-rouser, firebrand, leader who exploits popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power
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disabuse
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undecieve, enlighten, set straight
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ennui
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languor, world-weariness, listlessness
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fetter
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bond, restraint, to bind, to hamper
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heinous
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evil, odious, abominable, outrageous
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immutable
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unchangeable, unalterable, fixed, invariable
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insurgent
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revolutionary, rebellious, mutinous
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megalomania
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delusions of grandeur
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sinecure
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position requiring little work, cushy job
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surreptitious
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furtive, covert, clandestine, concealed
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transgress
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overstep, exceed, trespass, err
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transmute
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transform, convert, translate, metamorephose
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vicarious
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surrogate, substitute, imagined, secondhand
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austere
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forbidding, rigorous, puritanical, ascetic, unadorned, subdued
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beneficent
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humanitarian, magnanimouse, charitable
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cadaverous
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corpselike, wasted, haggard, emaciated, ghastly
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concoct
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create, fashion, rustle up
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crass
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crude, vulgar, tasteless, oafish, obtuse, coarse, unfeeling
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debase
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cheapen, corrupt, demean, depreciate
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desecrate
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profane defile, violate,to commit sacrilige upon
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disconcert
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upset, rattle, ruffle, faze, perturb
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grandiose
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majestic,bombastic, highfalutin
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inconsequential
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trivial, negligible, petty, paltry
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infractions
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violation, transgression, breach, offense
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mitigate
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lessen, relvieve, alleviate, diminish
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pillage
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ravage,sack, loot
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prate
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chatter, prattle, blab, blabber, palaver
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punctilious
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precise, scrupulous, exacting, fussy, finicky
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redoubtable
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formidable, fearsome, awesome, augst
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reprove
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chide, chastise, upbraid , reproach, scold
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restitution
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compensation, reimbursement, redress, restoration
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stalwart
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strudy, stout, intrepid, valeant, mainstay
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vulnerable
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defenseless, exposed, succeptible, unguarded
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acrimonious
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biting,caustic, rancorous, hostile, peevish
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bovine
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stolid, dull, slow, stupid
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consternation
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shock, amazement, bewilderment,dismay
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corpulent
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overweight, fat, heavy, obese, stout, portly
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disavow
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disown, disclaim, retract, abjure
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dispassionate
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unbiased, disinterested, cool, detached
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dissension
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strife, discord, contention, disagreement
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dissipate
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disperse, strew, diffuse, waste
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expurgate
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purge, censor, bowdlerize
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gauntlet
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dare, provocation, trial, punishment
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hypothetical
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assumed, supposed, conjectural,conditional
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ignoble
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inferior, unworthy,dishonorable,sordid
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impugn
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challenge, deny, dispute, query, question
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intemperate
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excessive, extreme, unrestrained, inordinate
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odium
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hatred, contempt, abhorrence, shame, ihnominy, opprobrium
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perfidy
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betrayal, disloyalty, treason, duplicity
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relegate
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transfer,consign, demote, exile
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squeamish
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nauseated, queasy, delicate, onversensitive, priggish
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subservient
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secondary, servile, obsequious, useful
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susceptible
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vulnerable, receptive, impressionable
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abate
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diminish, decrease, subside, let up
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adulation
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adorateion, idolization, hero-worship
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anathema
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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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cupidity, rapacity, acquisitiveness, greedy desire particularly for wealth
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culpable
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guilty, delinquent, peccant, 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, conspicuous
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equivocate
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palter, hedge, talk out of both sides of one's mouth, to be purposefully vague or ambiguous
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evanescent
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transient, transitory, fleeting, light and airy
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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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destitution, want, indigence,extreme poverty
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pretentious
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inflated, ostentatious, affected
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recapitulate
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review, summarize, sum up, go over, recap
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resuscitate
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revitalize, reanimate, restore, reactive
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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, otiose, languid
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