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20 Cards in this Set
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Apprise
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Increase the value of; gain in value; make aware of; inform (somebody) of something
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Austere
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Of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect; severely simple; practicing great self-denial
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Bestow
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Give as a gift; present; bestow a quality of
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Camaraderie
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The quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability
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Circumspect
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Heedful of potential consequences
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Correlate
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Mutually related; either of two correlated variables; bring into a mutual, complementary, or reciprocal relation; to bear a reciprocal or mutual relation
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Elation
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A feeling of joy and pride; an exhilarating psychological state of pride and optimism; an absence of depression
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Enormity
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An act of extreme wickedness; the quality of extreme wickedness; vastness of size or extent; the quality of being outrageous
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Exhaustive
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Very thorough; exhaustively complete
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Recrimination
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Mutual accusations
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Accost
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Speak to someone
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Appraisal
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The classification of someone or something with respect to its worth; a document appraising the value of something (as for insurance or taxation)
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Furtive
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Marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed; secrety and sly or sordid
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Mercenary
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Use of soldiers hired by a foreign army; profit oriented; marked by materialism; a person hired to fight for another country than their own
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Permeate
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Spread or diffuse through; penetrate mutually or be interlocked; pass through
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Pernicious
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Working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way; exceedingly harmful
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Populace
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People in general considered as a whole
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Proletarian
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Belonging to or characteristic of the proletariat; the lowest class of citizens of ancient Rome who had no property; a member of the working class (not necessarily employed)
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Rapacious
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Excessively greedy and grasping; devouring or craving food in great quantities; living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
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Recalcitrant
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Marked by stubborn resistance to authority; stubbornly resistant to authority or control
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