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28 Cards in this Set
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Banal
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Unoriginal; ordinary
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Bane
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Poison; Torment; cause harm
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Bastion
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Stronghold; fortress; fortified place
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Beget
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To give birth to ; to lead to; to cause
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Belabor
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to go over repeatedly or to an absurd extent
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Beleaguer
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To surrond; to besiege; to harass
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Belie
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To give a false impression of; to contradict
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Belittle
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To make to seem little; to put down someone
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Belligerent
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Combative; quarrelsome; waging war
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Bemused
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Confused; bewildered
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Benefactor
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One who provides help, especially in the form of gift or donation
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Benevolent
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Generous; kind; doing good deeds
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Benign
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Gentle; not harmful; kind; mild
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Bequest
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Something left to someone in a will
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Bereaved
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Deprived of left desolate, especially through death
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Beset
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To harass; to surround
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Blasphemy
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Irreverence; an insult to something held sacred; profanity
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Blatant
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unpleasantly or offensively noisy; glaring
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Blight
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A disease in plants; anything that injures or destroys.
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Blithe
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Carefree; Cheerful
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Bourgeois
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Middle class, usually in a pejorative sense; boringly conventional
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Bovine
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Cow related; cow like
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Brevity
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Brieftness
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Broach
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To open up a subject for discussion, often a delicate subject
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Bucolic
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Charmingly rural; rustic; countrylike
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Bureaucracy
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A system of government administration consisting of numerous bureaus or offices, especially one run according to inflexible and inefficient rules, any large administrative system characterized by inefficiency, lots of rules, and red tape
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Burgeon
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To expand; to flourish
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Burlesque
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A ludicrous, mocking, or exaggerated imitation
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