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26 Cards in this Set
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Placate
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To Appease; pacify
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Ostracize
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to banish from a group
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Revile
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to use abusive language
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Reproach
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to blame for something; disgrace or shame
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Brusque
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abrupt, curt or blunt
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Idyll
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Poem or prose describing a simple pleasant life of rural people
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Laconic
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terse in expression, using few words
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Inane
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lacking substance;empty, silly
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Despot
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tyrant or dictator
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Acrid
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sharp of bitter to the taste, sharp in speech
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Banal
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Trite; hackneyed, insignificant
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Wretched
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very unhappy or distressing
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Pensive
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thoughtful
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Evasion
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the act of escaping or avoiding
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Admonition
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Reproving mildly, reproach, disciplinary
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Sanitorium
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home where people go to regain their health
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Emaciated
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to cause of become abnormally lean
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Impenetrable
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Impossible to understand or enter
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Visage
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Appearance
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Tumultuous
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Confusedly or violently agitated
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Vestige
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A visible trace, evidence, or sign of something that once existed but exists or appears no more.
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Oracle
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A person considered to be a source of wise counsel or prophetic opinions.
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Superfluous
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Being beyond what is required or sufficient.
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Atonement
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Amends or reparation made for an injury or wrong
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Pandemonium
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Wild uproar or noise
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Fiasco
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A complete failure
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