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42 Cards in this Set
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Adumbrate
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To outline in a vague way: to foreshadow
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Umbrage
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Cover or shadow
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Penumbra
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Partly light area around the shadow of an eclipse
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Umber
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A color
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Aggravate
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Make worse or more severe
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Augment
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To increase
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Exacerbate
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A crisis to sharpen or heighten
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Annihilate
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Destroy utterly
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Nihilists
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Having no bases for certain knowledge
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Obliterate
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To destroy by rendering unrecognizable
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Exterminate
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To wipe out
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Extirpate
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Root an evil out
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Eradicate
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Root and evil out
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Capitulate
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Surrender on certain terms
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Extenuate
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Make less serious, diminish
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Fulminate
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To explode, erupt, shout violently
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Instigate
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Provoke, incite
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Mitigate
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Lessen, make milder
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Assuage
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Soften or reduce
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Pacify
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To quite and calm down
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Alleviate
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To relieve it
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Allay
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Hardship is to lessen, relieve or make less onerous
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Procrastinate
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To delay, put off
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Propitiate
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Appease, conciliate
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Mollify
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To appease or pacify a power on has offended
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Expiate
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Make amends by suffering or punishment or make reparation
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Atone
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Make amends by suffering or punishment or make reparation
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Auspicious
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Promising, favorable
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Egregious
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Remarkably bad, flagrant
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Equivocal
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Vague, ambiguous, questionable
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Obscure
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Understood with great difficulty
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Vague
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Hazy, indefinite, and unclear by its very nature
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Ambiguous
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Read equally well with two or three meanings
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Enigmatic
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Puzzles or perplexes
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Cryptic
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Intentionally puzzling
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Expedient
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Suitable, advantages but not necessarily right
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Fortuitous
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Occurring by chance or accident
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Intrinsic
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Actual, essential, or inherent
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Mystical
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Participating in mysterious spiritual experience or knowledge
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Sacrilegious
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Irreverent, blasphemous
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Salubrious
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Healthful, promoting health
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Synthetic
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Artificial, manufactured
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