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96 Cards in this Set
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immutable
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unchangeable
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facile
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easy
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egregious
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outrageous
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derision
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ridicule; mocking, to laugh against
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entreat
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to plead earnestly
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equivocation
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avoid giving a definite answer; answer with intention of deceiving
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expostulate
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to reason earnestly with someone in an effort to correct
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felicity
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great happiness
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filial
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of or befitting a son or daughter
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garish
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gaudy, showy
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hone
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to sharpen
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idiom
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a style or manner of expression particular to a given people
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dearth
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a scarce supply
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encompass
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to surround
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droll
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amusingly odd or whimsical
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depreciate
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to lessen the price or value of
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despotic
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autocratic; ruling with absolute power
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desultory
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jumping from one thing to another; random
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dire
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urgently desperate
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dominion
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realm; sovereignty
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chagrin
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embarrassment
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congenital
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existing at birth, but not inherited
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convivial
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sociable, jovial
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convoke
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to call together
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conjecture
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to guess; to suppose
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capitulate
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to surrender
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benevolence
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an act of kindness
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autocratic
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arrogant
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cynical
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distrusting or skeptical of other's motives
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crystalline
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strikingly clear or sparkling
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contrition
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sincere remorse for wrong doing
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collateral
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property pledged as security for a loan
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coalesce
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to grow together; to fuse
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cleft
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a split as if with a sharp instrument
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circumvent
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to get around by artful manuveuring
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casellated
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having battlements
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admonish
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to warn
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apathy
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indifferent; lack of interest
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anomaly
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straying from the norm
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anarchy
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lack of government
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calumnious
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slanderous; misrepresentation to blacken one's reputation
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blase
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sophistocated; uninterested due to frequent exposure
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belie
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to picture falsely
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behoove
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to be necessary or proper for
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avaricious
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greedy
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auspicious
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favorable circumstances; prosperous
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antithesis
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direct opposition
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amiss
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faulty; out of proper order
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imminent
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About to occur; impending
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impeccable
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having no flaws; perfect
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incantation
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Ritual recitation of verbal charms or spells to produce a magic effect.
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incarnate
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invested with bodily nature and form
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incognito
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With one's identity disguised or concealed.
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indiscriminate
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Not making or based on careful distinctions; unselective
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inexorable
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Not capable of being persuaded by entreaty; relentless
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inexplicable
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Difficult or impossible to explain
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anarchronism
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something out of its proper time
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dolt
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stupid person
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digress
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to stray away from the main topic
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eulogy
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praise for a dead person
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infuse
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to put into or introduce by pouring
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jocund
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lighthearted in disposition
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lilting
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a lively matter of speaking
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myriad
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a limitless amount
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nascent
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coming into existence
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nonchalant
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cooly unconcerned/ indifferent
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opaque
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hard to understand; light can't pass through
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pall
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cover for a coffin; something to suggest something bad
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lucid
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shining; easily understood
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ludicrous
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ridiculous
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magnanimous
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generous; noble
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malevolent
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wishing evil
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pedagogical
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pertaining to teaching
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perdition
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loss of the soul; eternal damnation
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peruse
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to read or examine
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pervasive
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spread throughout as to be seen everywhere
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portentous
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exciting wonder and awe; foreboding
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precept
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a rule prescribing a particular course of action
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prodigal
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rashly extravagant
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proficient
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skillful; expert
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misanthrope
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hater of mankind
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mundane
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worldly; earthly
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nefarious
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extremely wicked
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obviate
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to prevent; like a roadblock
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proavocative
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tending to stimulate into anger or annoyance
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pulsate
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vibrate
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qualm
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a sudden misgiving; uneasy feeling about rightiousness about what you are doing
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quandary
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dilemma
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rapt
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engrossed
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reiterate
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to tell again
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requiem
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hymn for the dead
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rueful
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regretful
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pancrea
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cure all
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perspective
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relation of parts to one another and to the whole
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pseudonym
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assumed name to conceal identity
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recalitrant
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no obedient
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