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17 Cards in this Set
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accost
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buttonhole, approach, confront
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animadversion
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rebuke, reproof
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avid
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keen, enthusiastic, grasping
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brackish
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briny, saline
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celerity
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promptness, alacrity, speed
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devious
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roundabout, indirect, tricky, sly, artful
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gambit
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ploy, stategem, ruse, maneuver
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halcyon
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tranquil, serene, placid, palmy
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histrionic
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affected, stagy
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incendiary
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inflammatory, provacative, firebrand
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maelstrom
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vortex, chaos, turbulence, tumult
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myopic
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shortsighted
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overt
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clear, obvious, manifest, patent
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propriety
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fitness, correctness, decorum
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sacrilege
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desecration, profranation, defilement
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summarily
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promptly, peremptorily, abruptly
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undulate
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ripple, fluctuate, rise and fall
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