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20 Cards in this Set
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acrimonious
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stinging, bitter in temper or tone; biting; caustic; rancorous; hostile; peevish
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bovine
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resembling a cow or ox; sluggish; unresponsive; stolid; dull; slow; stupid
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consternation
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dismay; confusion; shock; amazement; bewilderment;
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corpulent
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fat; having a large; bulky body; overweight; heavy; obese; stout; portly
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disavow
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to deny responsibility for or connection with; disown; disclaim; retract; abjure
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dispassionate
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impartial; calm; free from emotion; unbiased; disinterested; cool; detached
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dissension
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disagreement; sharp difference of opinion; strife; discord; contention
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dissipate
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to cause; to disappear; to scatter; dispel; to spend foolishly; squander; to be extravagant in pursuit of pleasure; disperse; strew; diffuse; waste
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expurgate
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to remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse; purify; purge; censor; bowdlerize
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gauntlet
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an armored or protestive glove; a challenge; two lines of men armed with weapons with which to beat a person forced to run between them' an ordeal; dare; provocation; trail; punishment
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hypothetical
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based on an assumptioin or guess; used as a provisional or tentattive idea to guide or direct investigation; assumed; supposed; conjectural; conditional
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ignoble
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mean; low; base; inferior; umworthy; dishonorable; sordid
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impugn
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to call into question; to attack as false; challenge; deny; dispute; query
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intemperate
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immoderate; lacking in self-conrtol; inclement; excessive; extreme; unrestrained; inordinate
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odium
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hatred; contempt; disgrace or infamy resulting from hateful conduct; abhorrence; opprobrium; shame; ignominy
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perfidy
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faithlessness, treachery; betrayal; disloyalty; treason; duplicity
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relegate
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to place in a lower position; to assign; refer; turn over; to banish; transfer; consign; demote; exile
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squeamish
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inclined to nausea; easily shocked or upset; excessively fastidious or refined; nauseated; queasy; delicate; oversensitive; priggish
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subservient
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subordinate in capacity or role; submissively obedient; serving to promote some end; secondary; servile; obsequious, useful
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susceptible
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open to; easily influenced; lacking in resistance; vulnerable; receptive; impressionable
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