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27 Cards in this Set
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Imminent
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About to happen
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Impecunious
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Having little or no money
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Imperturbable
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Not easily excited
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Importune
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To trouble with demands; tax
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Pejorative
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Tending to make worse; belittling
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Penchant
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A strong attraction
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Paltry
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Insignificant; measly
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Pecuniary
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Related to money
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Pedantry
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Nit-picking
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Abrogate
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to repeal, cancel, declare null and void
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Affront
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an open or intentional insult; a slight v. to insult to one's face, confront
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Agnostic
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one who believes that nothing can be known about God
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Allay
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to calm or pacify, set to rest
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Amenity
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that wish is pleasant or agreeable; attractive features
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Animadversion
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a comment indication strong criticism or disapproval
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Arrogate
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to claim or take without right
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Attenuate
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to make thin or slender; to weaken or lessen in force
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Badinage
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light and playful conversation
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Banal
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hackneyed, trite, commonplace
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Behemoth
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a creature of emormous size, power, or appearance
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Benign
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gentle, kind; having favorable or beneficial effect
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Bucolic
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characteristic of the countryside, rural; relationg to shepherds and cowherds
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Cacophonous
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harsh sounding, racuous, discordant, dissonant
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Canard
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a false rumor, fabricated story
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Chicanery
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trickery, deceptive practices or tactics
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Coherent
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holding or sticking together; making a logical whole ; comprehensible
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Perfunctory
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done in a superficial or halfhearted manner; without interest or enthusiasm
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