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33 Cards in this Set
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fleshy
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carnal
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rebellious
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contumacious
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logical
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dialectic
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offensively excessive
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fulsome
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attribute accusingly
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impute
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satiated
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jaded
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praise
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laud
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unscrupulous faker
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mountebank
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favoritism to relatives in filling jobs
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nepotism
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outer edge
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periphery
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piglike
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porcine
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feed for livestock
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provender
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tending to make things worse; directed backward
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retrograde
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apelike
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simian
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beg humbly
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supplicate
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showing false concern; oily
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unctuous
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toughen by heating and then cooling
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anneal
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pictorial use of light and shade
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chiaroscuro
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with increasing loudness; peak of intensity
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crescendo
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flat-bottomed boat
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dory
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execute by strangling
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garrote
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win favor for
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ingratiate
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group of political plotters
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junto
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inpose; wage; conscription
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levy
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lowest point
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nadir
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rejection of all established beliefs
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nihilism
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spread through
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permeate
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high dignitary
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prelate
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not needed
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redundant
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cheerful; ruddy
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sanguine
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easily irritated
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splentic
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needless repetion of ideas
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tautology
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absolute
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unmitigated
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