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30 Cards in this Set
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Unstable, unpredictable, explosive
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volatile
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appropriate for the situation, apt
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apropos
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to punish, hold up to scorn, ridicule
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pillory
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a scheme/plot, a group of plotters
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cabal
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meddlesome, bossy, overbearing
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officious
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to remove obscenity, purify, censor
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expurgate
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a repetition, a redundancy
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tautology
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to bless, make happy, or ascribe a virtue to, regard as saintly
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beatify
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cheerful, confident, optimistic
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sanguine
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to flay, strip off the skin, to denounce sharply
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excoriate
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crude, offensive, rude
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boorish
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easily understood, lucid, clear
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luculent
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to make something appear less serious, to alleviate, to gloss over, put a positive spin to
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palliate
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difficult to comprehend, obscure
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abstruse
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diligent, painstaking, devoted to a task
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sedulous
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cheerful promptness, willingness
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alacrity
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skeptical, unwilling to believe
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incredulous
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suspended action
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abeyance
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to portray, depict, sketch out
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delineate
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daring, bold
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audacious
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pleasing in appearance, attractive
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personable
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sleeping, sluggish, inactive, lethargic
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torpid
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an invocation of evil, a curse
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imprecation
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something out of place for its time, relic
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anachronism
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cheap, gaudy, showy, tacky
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tawdry
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emergency, urgent situation
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exigency
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coming into existence, emerging
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nascent
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asking humbly, beseeching
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suppliant
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novice, amateur
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tyro
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attacking cherished beliefs
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iconoclastic
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