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111 Cards in this Set
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Foment
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Incite
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Meretricious
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Falsely attractive
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Fatuous
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Inanely foolish
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Erstwhile
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Formerly
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Congeries
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Collection Pronounced with a soft "g"
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Ineluctable
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Inevitable
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Boreal
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Northern
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Salubrious
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Healthful
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Banal
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Lacking originality
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Demiurge
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Autonomous creative force
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Discursive
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Rambling
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Eschatology
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Study of what happens after death
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Ontology
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Study of the nature of being
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Factitious
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Sham
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Invidious
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Unpleasant or objectionable
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Noetic
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Of the intellect
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Quail
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Cower
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Risible
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Laughable Pronounced like "lizard"
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Sententious
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Pithy
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Spartina
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Water grass
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Bibelot
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Trinket
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Lacuna
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Gap
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Otiose
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Futile, functionless
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Twee
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Affectedly dainty or cute
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Redact
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Edit
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Foist
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Pass off as genuine
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Quiescent
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Motionless Pronounced like "quiet"
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solecism
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Ungrammatical sentence; minor blunder in a speech. \SAH-luh-sih-zum\
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Abject
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Humble, hopeless, servile
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Ossuary
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Depository for bones of the dead. Osh-shoe-ary
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Stark
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Bare, blunt, harsh
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Jeroboam
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A 3-litre wine bottle. jer-&-'bO-&m
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Esoteric
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Of special, rare, or unusual interest
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Otiose
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Futile, idle, or functionless
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Virulent
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Poisonous, malignant
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Tendentious
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Favoring a particular point of view
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Rebarbative
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Repellent, irritating
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Helter-skelter
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Haphazard
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Demigod
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More than human, less than godly
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Vitrine
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Glass display cabinet. v&-'trEn
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Shamble
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Shuffle
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Ephemeral
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Lasting a very short time
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Preternatural
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Existing outside nature, extraordinary
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Timbrel
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Small hand drum or tabourine
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Ziggurat
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Towering temple. 'zi-g&-"rat
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Ardor
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Intense and passionate feeling
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Irascible
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Easily made angry
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Luxuriant
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fertile, lush, prolific
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Languid
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Weak, listless, slow
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Axiomatic
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self-evident
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Interpolate
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To insert between other things, to estimate values between two known values
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Obsequious
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Fawningly attentive
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Feckless
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Weak, ineffective
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Hapless
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Unlucky
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Assiduous
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Persistently attentive, diligent
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Prodigious
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Wondrous, enormous
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Canard
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False report or story
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Rubric
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Rule, title, category
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Febrile
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Feverish. Feb-ryle
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Spurious
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Genuine looking, but false
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Ecclesiastical
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Relating to a church
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Flout
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Scorn
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Palpable
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Tangible, manifest
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Stratagem
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Clever scheme or plan
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Juggernaut
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Huge force destroying everything in its path
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Callow
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Lacking adult sophistication
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Confabulate
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Fill in gaps in memory by fabrication
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Vitiate
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Make ineffective
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Bollard
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Demarcation post
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Smarmy
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Low and sleazy
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Insidious
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Harmful but enticing, or developing so gradually as to be well established before becoming apparent
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Supernal
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Heavenly
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Immanent
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Existing only within consciousness
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Hallow
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Make holy or venerate
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Seminal
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Containing the seeds of later development
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Nether
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Lower or beneath the earth's surface
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Bumptious
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Presumptiously self-assertive
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Fulsome
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Copious, overdone, or excessively complimentary
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Effusive
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Excessively demonstrative
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Desecrate
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Violate the santity of or treat irreverently
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Effete
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Having lost character, vitality, or strength; or effeminate
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Adjure
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Urge or advise earnestly
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Edify
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Instruct and improve
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Efface
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Wear away the surface, or make oneself inconspicuous
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Adamantine
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Unyielding or diamond hard
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Refract
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Deflect light rays; or determine the degree of refraction
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Heuristic
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Trial-and-error learning or discovery
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Sluice
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Wash or flush in a floodgate
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Adventitious
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Occurring sporadically or in an unusual location
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Numinous
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Supernatural, holy, spiritual, or mysterious
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Factious
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Relating to or inclined to faction
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Animadversion
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Negative criticism
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Regale
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Entertain
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Gratuitous
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Free or unwarranted
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Expurgate
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To eliminate objectional parts before publication or presentation
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Rampart
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Protective wall or barrier
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Wan
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Weak or dim
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Livery
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Uniform
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Vagary
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Unpredictable occurrence
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Preen
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Make oneself sleek or gloat
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Dramatury
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Craft of writing or presenting drama
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Morphology
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Study of structure or form
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Abstruse
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Difficult to comprehend
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Forbear
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Restrain oneself to endure something unpleasant
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Remonstrate
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Plea in opposition
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Languor
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Listlessness
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Inveigh
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Protest or complain bitterly or vehemently
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Rail
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Scold
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Diacritical
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Capable of distinguishing
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Nemesis
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Formidable, often victorious opponent
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Retrograde
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Tending toward a worse or previous state
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