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50 Cards in this Set
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wiles
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tricks, trickery, tricky behavior, to trick
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diverge
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differ, deviate, deflect
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cogent
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realistic, relevant
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scheme
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plan
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dissipate
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scatter, indulge
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fractious
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unruly
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apostate
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infidel
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renounce
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to reject
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effete
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dull
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fetter
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shackle
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inveigle
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entice, lure
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circuitous
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roundabout
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renegade
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traitor
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uphold
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retain
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lissome
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flexible
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missive
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message, sent
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suffuse
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to overspread
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devious
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indirect
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fiat
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decree
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avow
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to declare
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conniving
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conspire,
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potentate
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powerful person
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saturate
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overflow, destroy
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diaphanous
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semitransparent
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partison
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weapon, supporter, soldier
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breach
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breaking or the result thereof
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dissemble
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feign
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wayward
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turning or swayed from what's right
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impasse
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dead end
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deprecate
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disapprove
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grandiloquent
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expressed as pompous
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estrangement
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diversion
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constrain
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confine or force
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ingenuous
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free from reserve, innocent
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trajectory
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curve
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posture
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position, attitude
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chastened
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correct, restrain
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cataclysm
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a violent upheaval
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embroil
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to bring conflict
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dissident
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disagreeing
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remorse
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regret
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accrue
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grow or gain
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recalcitrant
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unruly
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canard
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a baseless story
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reconcile
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convince (to resign)
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inane
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silly
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poseur
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POSER
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extricate
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liberate
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pithy
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meaningful
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caucus
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group, discussion
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