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35 Cards in this Set
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per
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through
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perplex
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co
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together
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copious
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trans
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across
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traverse
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biblio
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book
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bibliophile
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phile
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love
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bibliophile
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demo
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people
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demography
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graph
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write
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demography
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sangui
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blood
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sanguine
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cred
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believe
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incredulous
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plex
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weave
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perplex
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obs
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against
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ostentatious
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tens
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stretch
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ostentatious
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micro
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small
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microcosm
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cosmo
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universe
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microcosm
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anim
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mind
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animus
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neo
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new
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neophyte
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phyte
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plant
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neophyte
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mens
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measure
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commensurate
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in
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in or not
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incredulous
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plus
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more
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nonplussed
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perplex
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confuse
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Socrates was executed for perplexing the youth of Athens
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copious
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abundant
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Bottom's superfluous words were more copious than his ideas
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traverse
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cross
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Slowly, Hillary and his team traversed the face of the mountain
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bibliophile
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a book lover
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The quaint old store was a Mecca for bibliophiles
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demography
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study of populations
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They examined the demographics of the school community
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sanguine
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cheerful
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His sanguine disposition encouraged the other survivors
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ostentatious
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showy
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The ostentatious home offended their subtle, refined tastes
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microcosm
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small universe
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She gazed at the squirming microcosm in the drop of pond water
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defenestrate
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toss out the window
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Defenestration was the preferred treatment for cheaters
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animus
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intent or hatred
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Katherine the Great sensed a disturbing animus in the English noble
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nonplussed
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perplexed
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The nonplussed anthropoid gazed vacantly at the skull in his hands
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interdiction
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prohibition
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Despite the interdiction, crowds protested before the Bastille
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commensurate
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of like measure
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The salary was not commensurate with the responsibility
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neophyte
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beginner
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She could not just relinquish the project to callow corporate neophytes
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incredulous
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not believing
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The incredible devastation left even Oppenheimer incredulous
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