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132 Cards in this Set
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to stop short and refuse to proceed
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Balk
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a love song or song that tells a narrative
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Ballad
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a source of harm or ruin
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Bane
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a poet, often a singer as well
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Bard
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shy, excessively timid
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Bashful
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a device that supplies power
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Battery
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late, delayed
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Belated
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to show something to be wrong or false
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Belle
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prone to violence and agressiveness
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Bellicose
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prone to agression and conflict
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Belligerent
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a donor, one who gives money or gifts
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Benefactor
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marked by goodness or doing good
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Benevolent
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favorable, not threatening, mild
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Benign
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to scold vehemently
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Berate
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devoid of, without
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Bereft
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a tendency, inclination, prejudice
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Blas
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to cheat or defraud
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Bilk
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an imperfection, flaw
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Blemish
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plague, disease; something that destroys hope; to cause to deteriorate
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Blight
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excessively confident, overblown or pompous
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Bombastic
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a middle-class person, capitalist
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Bourgeois
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short, abrupt, dismissive
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Brusque
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to support, hold up; something that offers support
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Buttress
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a rythmn, progression of sound
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Cadence
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an event with disastrous consequences
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Calamity
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to set, standardize
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Calibrate
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harsh, cold, unfeeling
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Callous
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an attempt to spoil someone else's reputation by spreading lies
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Calumny
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brotherhood, jovial unity
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Camaraderie
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honesty, frankness
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Candor
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a piece of cloth on which an artist paints; to cover, inspect
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Canvas
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subject to whim, fickle
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Capricious
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to get the attention of, hold
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Captivate
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to party, celebrate
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Carouse
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to list, enter into a list; a list or collection
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Catalog
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harsh criticism; to rebuke formally
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Censure
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related to the intellect
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Cerebral
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absolute disorder
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Chaos
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to feel or show affection toward something
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Cherish
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the arrangement of dances
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Choreography
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written history; to write a history
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Chronicle
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roundabout
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Circuitous
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indirect and wordy language
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Circumlocution
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marked off, bounded
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Circumscribed
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to get around
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Circumvent
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able to percieve things that normal people cannot
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Clairvoyant
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loud noise; to loudly insist
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Clamor
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secret
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Clandestine
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members of Christian holy orders
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Clergy
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sickeningly sweet
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Cloying
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to thicken, clot
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Coagulate
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intellectually convincing
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Cogent
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logically consistent, intelligible
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Coherent
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secondary or supporting; security for a debt
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Collateral
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characteristic of informal conversation
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Colloquial
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a gigantic statue or something
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Colossus
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the act or process of burning
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Combustion
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a notice of approval or recognition
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Commendation
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to make an appropriate payment for something
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Compensate
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self-satisfied ignorance of danger
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Complancency
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to complete, make perfect
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Complement
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ready to adapt oneself to another's wishes
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Compliant
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including everything
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Comprehensive
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to accept as vaild
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Concede
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friendly, agreeable
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Conciliatory
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brief and direct in expression
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Concise
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to fabricate, make up
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Concoct
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an expression of sympathy or sorrow
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Condolence
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to pardon, deliberatly overlook
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Condone
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a pipe or channel through which something passes
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Condult
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sweet, fancy food
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Confection
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great fire
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Conflagration
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to frustrate, confuse
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Confound
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pleasantly agreeable
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Congenial
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a gathering of people, especially for religious services
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Congregation
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to dedicate something to a holy purpose
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Consecrate
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an agreement of opinion
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Consensus
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an act of comforting
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Consolation
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an essential part
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Constituent
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to complete a deal; to complete a marriage ceremony through sexual intercourse
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Consummate
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the act of consuming
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Consumption
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existing during the same time
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Contemporaneous
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having a tendancy to quarrel or dispute
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Contentious
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to contradict, oppose, violate
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Contravene
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penitent, eager to be forgiven
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Contrite
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puzzle, problem
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Conundrum
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an assembly of people; a rule or custom
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Convention
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intricate or involved
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Convoluted
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warm, affectionate
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Cordial
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the act of crowning
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Coronation
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to support with evidence
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Corroborate
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having the tendency to erode or eat away
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Corrosive
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a brilliant, unexpected act; the overthrow of a government and assumption of authority
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Coup
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readiness to believe
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Credulity
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a steady increase in intensity or volume
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Crescendo
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standards by which something is judged
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Criteria
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deserving blame
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Culpable
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to nurture, improve, refine
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Cultivate
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sly, clever at being deceitful
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Cunning
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to lessen, reduce
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Curtail
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a disastrous failure, disruption
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Debacle
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to lower the quality or esteem of something
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Debase
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to expose the falsefulness of something
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Debunk
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socially proper, appropriate
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Decorous
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no longer used or existing
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Defunct
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to hand overresponsibility for something
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Delegate
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intentional, reflecting careful consideration
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Deliberate
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a leader who appeals to a people's prejudices
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Demagogue
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to lower status or stature of something
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Demean
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quiet, modest, reserved
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Demure
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to belittle, diminish the opinion of
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Denigrate
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to criticize publicly
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Denounce
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abandoned, run-down
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Derelict
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to laugh at mockingly, scorn
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Deride
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taken directly from a source, unoriginal
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Deriative
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deserted, dreary, lifeless
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Desolate
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impoverished, utterly lacking
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Destitute
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to discourage, to prevent from doing
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Deter
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not striaghtforward, deceitful
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Devious
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intended to instruct; overly moralistic
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Didactic
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shy, quiet, modest
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Diffident
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to scatter, thin out, break up; not concentrated, scattered, disorganized
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Diffuse
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tending to delay, causing delay
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Dilatory
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showing care in doing one's work
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Diligent
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small or miniature
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Diminutive
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to deny knowledge of or responsibililty for
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Disavow
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to percieve, detect
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Discern
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to reveal, make public
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Disclose
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thwarted, baffled, embarrassed
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Discomited
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difference, failure of things to correspond
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Discrepancy
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the quality of being resserved in speech or action; good judgement
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Discretion
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rambling, lacking order
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Discursive
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