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37 Cards in this Set
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ABJURE
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To reject or renounce
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BLANDISH
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To coax using flattery
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CACOPHONY
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Tremendous noise or disharmonious sound
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DECRY
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To criticize openly
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EBULLIENT
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Extremely lively, jubilant
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FALLACIOUS
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False or misleading
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GARRULOUS
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Talkative or wordy
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HACKNEYED
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Unoriginal
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ICONOCLAST
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One who attacks common beliefs or institutions
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VACILLATE
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To sway, waver in mind, feeling or will
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ABROGATE
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To abolish, annul or treat as if it doesn't exist
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BOON
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A timely benefit or blessing
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CAJOLE
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To coax
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DEFILE
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To make unclean or impure
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EFFRONTERY
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Shameless boldness
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FASTIDIOUS
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Scornful, difficult to please
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GRANDILOQUENCE
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Lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous manner in speech or language
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LACONIC
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Terse in speech or writing
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MAELSTROM
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A destructive whirlpool that rapidly sucks in objects
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NADIR
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The lowest point of something
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OBDURATE
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Unyielding to persuasion or influences
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PALLIATE
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To reduce the severity of
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QUAGMIRE
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A difficult situation
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RANCOR
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Deep resentment
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SACROSANCT
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Holy, something that should not be criticized
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TACIT
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Expressed without words
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UBIQUITOUS
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Existing everywhere
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ARROGATE
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To take without permission
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BURNISH
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To polish or shine
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DERIDE
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To laugh at mockingly, scorn
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EXIGENT
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Urgent or critical
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HAPLESS
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Unlucky
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INCHOATE
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Unformed or formless, in the beginning stages
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MULTIFARIOUS
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Having great diversity or variety
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NEOPHYTE
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Someone who is young or inexperienced
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PROSAIC
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Plain, lacking livliness
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STUPEFY
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To astonish, make insensible
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