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60 Cards in this Set
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Accure
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Accumulate over time
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Annotation
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A critical or explanatory note
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Bedlam
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Syn: Pandemonium
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Covert
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Purposefully kept secret Ant: overt |
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Debonair
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Smooth and polished in manner and appearance
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Dun
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Syn: Hound, Harass
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Efficacious
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Syn: Potent Ant: Ineffective |
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Equanimity
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Refusal to panic
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Fortuitous
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Accidental
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Gist
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Essence
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Gratuitous
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Unwarranted
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Imperious
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Overbearing, arrogant
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Invective
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Vituperative (abusive verbally)
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Motley
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Showing great variety
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Munificent
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Ant: Miserly
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Procrastinate
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Put off until later
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Provocative
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Syn: Stimulating
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Recondite
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Syn: Abstruse
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Reprobate
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Syn: Scoundrel, Miscreant Ant: Saint |
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Sedentary
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Characterized by or calling for continued sitting
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Abstemious
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Ant: Intemperate
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Censurable
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Syn: Blameworthy
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Contingent
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Dependent on uncertain events or conditions Syn: dependent Ant: Independent of |
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Corroborate
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To confirm
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Denizen
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An inhabitant
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Discursive
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Rambling
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Disseminate
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Syn: Broadcast
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Dowdy
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Syn: Frumpy Ant: Chic |
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Florid
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Excessively ornate Ant: Pale |
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Foist
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Syn: Project
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Gauche
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Tactless Ant: Suave |
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Heresy
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Syn: Heterodoxy Ant: Othodoxy |
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Inculcate
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Syn: instill
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Palpable
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Syn: obvious Ant: intangible |
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Perceptive
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Having sympathetic insight
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Pernicious
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Deadly, fatal
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Salient
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Prominent, standing out, conspicuous
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Satiate
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Satisfied
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Sear
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To char or scorch
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Specious
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Deceptive
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Absolve
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Syn: acquit Ant: convict |
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Caricature
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Syn: lampoon
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Clangor
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Syn: din
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Continguous
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Adjacent in time
Ant: detached, distant |
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Cupidity
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Greed Syn: avarice |
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Deleterious
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Harmful, injurious Ant: salutary (helpful) |
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Enhance
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Ant: diminish, impair
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Entrall
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to captivate
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Extenuate
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Ant: exacerbate
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Implicit
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Syn: unspoken
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Incisive
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Penetrating
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Inimical
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Ant: hospitable
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Obstentatious
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showy
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Paragon
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Syn: good example
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Politic |
Prudent Syn: judicious |
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Prosaic
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lacking in distinction and originality
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Redundant
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Syn: superfluous
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Sanctimonious
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hypocritically
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Scintillating
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exceptionally brilliant Syn: stimulating Ant: dull, boring, insipid |
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Winsome
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charming
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