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20 Cards in this Set
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coup de grase
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a decisive finishing act or death blow
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repast
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a great feast
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ethereal
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heavenly; celestial
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serendipity
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makinig a desireable discovery by accident
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poltergeist
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a noisy usually mishcheivious ghost held to be responsible for unexplained noises
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zeigeist
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the spirit of the times
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lugubrious
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mournful; gloomy; somber
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truncate
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shorten
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patronizing
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acting superior
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carte blanche
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boundless authority
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juggernaut
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unstoppable force
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faux pas
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social blunder
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explicit
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fully revealed without vagueness
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equanimity
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calmness
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putrid
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foul smelling
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dilatory
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procrastinate
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inundate
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to overwhelm
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implicit
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implied
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hubris
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overwhelming pride
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cosmopolitan
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worldly sophisticate
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