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53 Cards in this Set
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admonish |
to reprimand |
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Anachronism |
something out of place in time |
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Beguile |
to deceive with charm |
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Calumny |
slander;false accusation |
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Capricious |
whimsical;impulsive |
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Caustic |
corrosive;sarcastic |
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Censure |
official condemnation;harsh criticism |
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Clandestine |
secret;hidden |
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Contemporaneous |
existing or occurring at about the same time |
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Denigrate |
to attack the character of; to disparage |
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Derogatory |
disparaging;belittling |
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Diatribe |
malicious criticism or abuse |
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Disparage |
to belittle;to demean |
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Duplicity |
deceit;hypocritical deception |
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Ephemeral |
short-lived |
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Evanescent |
likely to vanish |
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Expedite |
to speed up |
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Extemporaneous |
done with little or no practice |
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Fallacious |
deceptive;false |
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Furtive |
secretive;sneaky |
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Guile |
trickery;deceit |
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Harangue |
a long, critical, and pompous speech |
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Impugn |
to attack as untrue;to refute by argument |
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Influx |
a flowing in |
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Interminable |
never ending |
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Malediction |
a curse |
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Pejorative |
tending to make worse |
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Protracted |
prolonged; extended in time |
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Pseudonym |
pen name |
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Rapacious |
greedy; ravenous |
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Repudiate |
to cast off publicly |
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Slander |
false comments that injure another's reputation |
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Specious |
false, but plausible |
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Sporadic |
irregular or unpredictable |
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Spurious |
fake;counterfeit |
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Stealth |
sneakiness;ability to avoid detection |
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Stratagem |
a deceitful scheme |
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Superfluous |
beyond what in necessary or sufficient |
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Surreptitious |
deceptive;sneaky
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Transient |
fleeting;short lived |
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Transitory |
lasting for a short time |
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duplit |
two fold duplicity |
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pseudo |
fake pseudonym |
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nym |
name pseudonym |
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rapere |
to seize surreptitious |
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trans |
across/through transitory |
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chronos |
time anachronism |
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fleure |
to flow influx |
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tempus |
time contemporaneous |
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dia |
thoroughly diatribe |
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dictus |
declared malediction |
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de- |
down derogatory |
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pugn |
to fight impugn |
