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28 Cards in this Set
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supplant
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replace
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belie
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to contrast with, to show to be false
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terse
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concise
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abstraction
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dissociated with anything
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transitory
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short-lived
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anachronistic
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out of its time
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itinerant
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moving from place to place
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ephemeral
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fleeting
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intransigence
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stubbornness
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plenitude
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abundance
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desecration
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to violate the holiness of something
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stagnation
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unchanging
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tenuous
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flimsy, lacking in substance
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elusive
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difficult to detect or grasph
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effrontery
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rude arrogant behavior
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litigousness
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argumentative, disputations, contentious
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impetuousness
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rash impulsiveness
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meticulous
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fastidious
scrupulous punctilious |
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guileless
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ingenuous, naive gullible
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astute
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reasonable judgement
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disingenuous
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sneaky, crafty, insincere
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circumspect
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care before deciding
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opportunistic
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taking advantage of a situation
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synergy
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the whole is greater than the parts
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machinations
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scheming, plotting
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reconciled
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grudgingly accept it
find compatibility between two things |
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attenuated
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to weaken or reduce in force
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evanescent
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light, airy, fragile
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