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37 Cards in this Set
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cup
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desire
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cupidity
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eu
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good
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euphoria
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phor
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carry
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euphoria
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proto
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first
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protocol
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ous
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full of
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odious
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vid
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look
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visage
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fic
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make
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pontificate
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ate
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cause
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pontificate
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mend
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flaw
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mendacious
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uxor
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wife
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uxorious
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epi
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on
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epiphany
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apo
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away
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apophasis
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phan
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say
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apaphasis
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re
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back
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rebuke
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ob
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against
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objurgate
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jur
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swear
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objurgate
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sopor
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sleep
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soporific
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inter
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between
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internecine
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nec
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kill
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internecine
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dicho
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two parts
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dichotomy
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tomy
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cut
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dichotomy
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phan
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appearance
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epiphany
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cupidity
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greed
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The scaly, European dragon is known for his bootless cupidity
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euphoria
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feeling of well-being
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A warm euphoria crept over her as she slipped into the water
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protocol
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rules of ceremony
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Protocol called for Alice to flatter the Caterpillar
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odious
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disgusting
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Her too-tractable fiance now seemed simple and odious to Esther
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visage
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face
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The murdered king's hollow visage stared pallidly at the moonlit battlement
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pontificate
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speak dogmatically
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Nixon pontificated to Kennedy on his duties as a citizen
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mendacious
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untruthful
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The egregiously mendacious tale lacked a semblance of verisimilitude
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uxorious
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wife-doting
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The uxorious husband was blind to his wife's limitations
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apaphasis
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mention by denial
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"I won't even mention..." he began, in a clumsy apophasis
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rebuke
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sharp reprimand
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Lady Macbeth rebuked her husband for his hesitant apprehension
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objurgation
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rebuke
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The objurgations of Cinderella's stepsisters hurt her feelings
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soporific
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sleep-inducing
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The big meal had a soporific effect on the Cyclops
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internecine
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mutually destructive
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The internecine conflicts of Eastern Europe are ancient
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dichotomy
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two-part division
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Modern life transcends many traditional dichotomies
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epiphany
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revelation
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It was no epiphany; Lincoln found Grant though process of elimination
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