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20 Cards in this Set
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Exhort
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to admonish strongly, to urge ernestly.
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Expatriate
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to leave one's native country and to live elsewhere.
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Expound
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To explain in an ellaborate way.
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Extant
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still existing; not extinct
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Extenuate
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to try and lessen the severity of
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Extol
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to demand or obtain forcefully
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Extort
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to take illegally by raising one's prestige
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Extraneous
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coming from the outside; foreign; not truly properly belonging
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Extricate
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to release of free from an entanglement
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Facetious
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joking or jesting inappropriately
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Facile
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Somethign that is easily accomplished or done
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Farcical
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ludicrious; overly done; not to be taken seriously
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Feign
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to form or shape; to make up; to invent
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Festoon
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To decorate
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Fiasco
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Complete disaster or failure
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Finesse
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to complete something skillfully
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Firmament
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stars in the sky; the sky overhead
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Fissure
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a large cut or break; huge crack
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Foible
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a small weakness; slight frailty of character
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Foment
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to treat with warm water; medicated lotion.
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