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28 Cards in this Set
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Acumen
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quick, keen, or accurate knowledge or insight
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Adulation
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Excessive praise
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Adulterate
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to reduce purity
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Aesthetic
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dealing with physical appearance
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Aggrandize
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to increase in intensity or power
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Catalyst
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something that sets off a chain reaction
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Caustic
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burning or stinging
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Censure
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to officially rebuke or to block out
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Chary
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wary or cautious
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Chicanery
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trickery
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Diatribe
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a harsh denunciation
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Didactic
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intending to teach or instruct
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Dilettante
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amateur or superficial
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Disabuse
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to undeceive or set right
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Discordant
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conflicting, dissonant or harsh in sound
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Eloquent
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well-spoken
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Emollient
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soothing esp to the skin
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Empirical
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based in observation or experiment
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Endemic
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characteristic that belong to a certain region or local people
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Enervate
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to weaken or reduce
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Fortuitous
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happening by fortune or accident
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Fulminate
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to attack loudly or denounce
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Furtive
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marked by stealth
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Heretical
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violating accepted dogma
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Impecunious
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lacking funds/without money
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Imperturbable
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marked by extreme calm and passivity
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Impetuous
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impulsive
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Implacable
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cannot be appeased
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