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24 Cards in this Set
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Elocution
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The study and practice of public speaking.
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Pragmatic
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Practical, moved by the facts rather than abstract ideals.
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Rectify
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To correct.
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Vie
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To compete or contend.
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Perspicacity
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Shrewdness, astuteness, and keenness of wit.
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Maladroit
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Clumsy or tactless
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Quiescence
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Inactivity, stillness
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Misanthrope
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A person who hates all people.
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Autocrat
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A ruler who has absolute or unlimited power.
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Automaton
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A person who behaves in a mechanical, routine manner.
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Matrix
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The surroundings within which something begins or develops.
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Avuncular
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Like an uncle.
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Uxorious
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Dominated by one's wife.
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Moribund
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About to die or end.
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Pedagogue
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A teacher.
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Innate
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Possessed at birth: inborn.
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Xenophobia
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Fear or hatred of what is strange or foreign, or of foreigners.
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Misogamy
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Hatred of marriage
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Somnambulate
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To walk while sleeping.
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Mellifluous
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Sweet as honey.
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Imbibe
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To drink
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Potable
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Fit to drink
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Ossify
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To turn into bone, to become bony.
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Rapacious
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Excessively grasping or greedy.
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