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45 Cards in this Set
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Enfranchise |
give voting rights |
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Placid |
calm; peaceful |
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Remuneration |
payment for work done |
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Bilk |
cheat; defraud |
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Engender |
cause |
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Knotty |
complex; difficult to solve |
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Nuance |
something subtle; a fine shade of meaning |
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Renown |
fame |
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Abasement |
humiliation; degredation |
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Harangue |
noisy; attacking speech |
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Nullify |
to counter; make unimportant |
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Replete |
Full |
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Abrogate |
cancel; deny; repeal |
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Harbingers |
indicators; bringers or warnings |
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Labyrinthine |
complicated; highly convoluted |
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Plaudit |
Statement giving strong praise |
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Reprehensible |
shameful; very bad |
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Ensconce |
establish firmly in a position |
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Obdurate |
stubborn |
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Reprieve |
a respite; postponement of a sentence |
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Tawdry |
of little value, gaudy |
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Blighted |
damaged; destroyed; ruined |
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Credulous |
gullible; ready to believe anything |
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Enshroud |
cover |
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Lachrymose |
Tearful; sad |
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Obfuscate |
Deliberately make something difficult to understand |
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Repudiate |
Shun |
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Tedium |
boredom |
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Crepuscular |
active at dawn and dusk |
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Abtruse |
difficult to understand; obscure |
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Envenom |
to cause bitterness and bad feeling |
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Laconic |
using few words; brief; to the point |
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Oblique |
indirect; slanting |
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Plumage |
feathers of a bird |
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Resignation |
acceptance of fate |
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Accolade |
tribute; honor; praise |
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Ephemeral |
short-lived |
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Lamentation |
expression of regret or sorrow |
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Resolution |
determination |
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Bombast |
arrogant, pompous language |
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Curtail |
cut short |
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Epicure |
someone who appreciates good food and drink |
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Lampoon |
ridicule; spoof |
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Resonant |
echoing |
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Tenuous |
flimsy; not solid |
