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20 Cards in this Set
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Profound
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Having deep insights
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Alleviate
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To make easier, lessen
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Prodigious
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Extraordinary in size
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Expediated
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To Hasten
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Celerity
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Swiftness; speed
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Usurp
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To seize and hold by force or w/o legal right
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Paltry
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ridiculously or insultingly small
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condoned
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to disregard or overlook
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trivial
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of very little importance
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bizarre
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maked unusual in appearance, style, or general character
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Menial
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Lowly and sometimes degrading
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Venerable
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commanding respect because of great age/ impressive dignity
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Extraneous
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not pertinent; irrelevant
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Ambiguous
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open to having several possible meanings
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Succinct
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expressed in few words; concise, terse
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archaic
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Marked by the characteristics of earlier periods; antiquated
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emulate
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trying to equal or imitate
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facetious
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not meant to be taken seriously or literally
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rabid
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furious; raging, vioently intense
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salubrious
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favorable or promoting health; healthful
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