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98 Cards in this Set
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Clandestine
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adj. kept or done in secret, often in order to conceal, a spy
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Bilk
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verb. defraud, cheat, swindle
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Abatement
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noun. diminution in amount, degree, or intensity; moderation -reduction-
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Arcane
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adj. known or understood by only a few, obscure
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Bourgeois
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noun. adj. Higher, stuck up class.
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Chortle
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noun. verb. a snorting, joyful laugh or chuckle
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Diminutive
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adj. extremly small in size, tiny
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Exacerbate
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verb. increase the severity, violence, or bitterness of; to grow tention
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Grovel
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verb. to cringe or beg
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Kinetic
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adj. of, relating to, or produced by motion; energy inside
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Mercurial
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adj. shrewdness, swiftness, of the god Mercury, also UNpredictable
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Obsequious
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adj. fawning over
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Aberrant
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adj. abnormal
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Artless
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adj. having no guile, cunning, deceit, being HONEST
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Bulwark
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noun. a wall or embankment raised as a defensice fortification, a rampart
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Churlish
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adj. befitting a churl, boorish or vulgar, rude, mean
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Expunge
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verb. erase or strike out
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Harangue
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noun. verb. a long pompous speech, befre a gathering, a coach speech...diatribe
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Fortuitous
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adj. happening by accident or chance, lucky
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Lambaste
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verb. give a thrashing to, beatin but VERBAL- verbal scolding
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Odious
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adj. strong dislike towards another person or thing; hatred
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Abet
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verb. to approve, support in wrong doing, encourage
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Ascertain
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verb. discovered as through examination or experimentation
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Disparity
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noun. large difference in anything, mostly intelligence or rank
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Lascivious
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adj. expressing or showing lustfulness
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Misnomer
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noun. an error in naming
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Circumspect
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adj. heedful, prudent, looking for possible consiquences
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Cadence
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noun. Balanced, rhythmic fow, in poetry
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Eclectic
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adj. Having a large variety in taste, sources, systems, or styles
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Fallow
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adj. noun. plowed but left unseeded field
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Harbinger
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noun. verb. indicates foreshadowing, fortune teller, an omen
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Larceny
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noun. theft
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Mitigate
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verb. softened, mild
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Panacea
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noun. cure-all for diseases, evils, difficulties
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Abiding
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adj. to put up with, tolerate
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Baleful
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adj. goomy, depressed
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Canard
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noun. misleading story, false- lie
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Effusive
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adj. epressing exsesive emotion, gushy
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Fervid
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adj. great passion or zeal, passion in work
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Hedonism
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noun. gluttony
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Largess
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noun. large unnessary gift, generosity, to good cause usually
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Modicum
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noun. small amount
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Panache
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noun. dash, flamboyance
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Abscond
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verb. leave quickly and secretly hide oneself, often to avoid arrest or prosecution.
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Abyss
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noun. deep chasm, depth, or void
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Bastion
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noun. projecting part of fortification, lasting part, undestructable
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Elicit
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verb. to call forth, draw out, or provoke
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Fidelity
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noun. loyalty, loyalty to doings or deeds
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Idiosyncrasy
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noun. behavioral characteristics, behavior to certain group of people, flashy
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Penumbra
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noun. partial shadow, eclipse,
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Morose
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adj. gloomy, melancholy
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Latitude
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noun. freedom of action or choice
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Accrue
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verb. to come to one as a gain, addition, over time
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Beleaguer
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verb. to harass
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Castigate
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verb. to inflict punishment on. criticize severely
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Defunct
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adj. having ceased to exist or live (no longer in use, old fashion)
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Embellish
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verb. to make beautiful, ornament, decoration,
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Acrimony
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noun. bitter sharp, in speech or behavior
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Lexicon
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noun. a dictionary, list of words
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Impediment
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noun. a hindrance or obstruction, something in the way, defense
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Nebulous
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adj. Cloudy, misty, hazy, not weather, like in mind
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Anomaly
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noun. departure from the normal or common order, form, or rule -strange-
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Antithesis
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noun. direct contrast, opposition, opposite
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Bestial
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adj. Beastly -rudely mean
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Cavort
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verb. Bound or prance about in springing manner, caper, gambol
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Dichotomy
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noun. division into two different parts, like a debate
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Enigma
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noun. One htat is puzzling, ambiguous, inexplicable, tricky
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Impervious
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asj. unable to be penatrated, stopped, not able ot et in the way
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Loinize
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verb. to look on or treat as a celebrity
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Nihilism
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noun. belief of no god, denies all exsistance
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Quagmire
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noun. muddy puddle thing
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Blanch
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verb. to take color, bleach
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Quell
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verb. to put down forcible, suppress
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Bludgeon
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noun. a giant stick, club
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Chagrin
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noun. menatl uneasement, mental embarresment from failure or disappointment
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Didactic
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adj. intended to instruct, over exsessful teaching, or very helpful
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Ersatz
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adj. artificial, fake
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Genteel
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adj. a genteel-man
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Incendiary
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adj. causing or capable of starting a fire
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Macabre
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adj. gruesome, disgusting and grafic
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Noisome
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adj. offensived by disgusting, foul
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Choleric
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adj. easily angered, bad-tempered
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Dilapidated
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adj. Broken down, shabby, neglected
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Esoteric
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adj. intended for on a specific group to understand
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Ethereal
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adj. intangible
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Glower
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verb. stare angrily
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Gratuitous
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adj. given gift, unearned gift, voluntary or free
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Ingratiate
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verb. To Flatter another to geton their good side
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Jaundice
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noun. yellowish discolor in skin or eyes
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Masochist
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noun. getting pleasure from abuse (Sexual)
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Nonchalant
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adj. unconcernded, okay, cool with everything
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Quixotic
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adj. caught up in romance and trying to do deeds tat are impossible
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Renounce
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verb. to give up a title or rank
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Curmudgeon
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noun. ill-tempered hot tempered
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Precocious
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adj. early behavior and physical body changes into maturity, early puberty
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Capitulate
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verb. to surrender under certain reasons
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Gambol
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ver. to frolic
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Coalesce
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verb. to come together, to unite
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