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25 Cards in this Set
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Abrogate
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To abolish, to do away with
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Ablution
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The wasting of one's body.
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Bona fide
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Authentic, genuine.
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Canonize
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To declare a decease person an officially recognize saint.
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Charlatan
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A quack, a fraud, a fake.
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Detrimental
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Hurtful, causing damage, injurious.
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Epicure
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One devoted to sensual pleasure.
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Exogamy
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Marriage outside of a specific group
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Flotsam
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Wreckage or cargo that remains afloat after a ship has sunk.
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Gorgon
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A women regarded as ugly or terrifying.
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Hauteur
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Arrogant
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Importune
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To insist with repeated requests to ask urgently or repeatedly.
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Infer
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To conclude from evidence, to reason from circumstance.
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Jocund
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Light hearted indisposition, cheerful, happy.
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Kempt
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Neatly kept, trimmed.
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Luddite
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One who destroys labor saving machinery as a protest.
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Ludicrous
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Laughable, or hilarious because of obvious absurdity.
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Malapropism
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The use of a word sounding like the one intended, but ridiculously wrong.
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Manna
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Nourishment of Divine Origin.
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Nonchalant
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Seeming to coolly, unconcerned, or indifferent.
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Obelisk
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The Washington Monument is an example of an Obelisk.
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Pandemic
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Occurring over a wide area and affecting a high percentage of the population.
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Philanderer
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To carry on a sexual affair, to engage in many love affairs.
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Hexameter
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Having six measures.
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Neurotic
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A person prone to excessive anxiety or emotional distress.
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