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52 Cards in this Set
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Acer, acid, acri
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Bitter, sour, sharp
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Acerbic, acrid, acidity
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Belli
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War
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Rebellion, belligerent
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Cognoac, gnosi
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Know
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Recognize, cogonsenti
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Don
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Give
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Donate, condon
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Fall, fals
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Deceive
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Fallacy, falsify, fallacious
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Gest
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Carry, bear
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Congestion, gestation
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Homo
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Same
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Homogeneous, homonym
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Loc, loco
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Place
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Locality, allocate, locomotion
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Magn
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Great
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Magnificent, magnify, magnitude
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Migra
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Wander
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Emigrant, migrate, immigrate
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Droll
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Amusingly odd or whimsically comical
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Poignant
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Pungently pervasive
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Deride
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To laugh at contemptuously
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Denigrate
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To attack the reputation of
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Vicarious
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Performed or suffered by one person as a substitute for another or to the benefit or advantage of another
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Ephemeral
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Lasting a short time
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Sagacious
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Of keen and farsighted penetration and judgment; discerning
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Vitigate
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To make faulty or defective
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Ignominious
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Disgrace or shame; dishonorable
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Salient
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Projecting beyond surface, or line; notable, significant
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Nomen, nomin
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Name
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Nomenclature, nominate, ignominious
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Pac
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Peace
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Pacifist, pacify
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Phil
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Love
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Philosophy, philharmonic, philanthropy
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Plac, plais
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Please
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Placid, placate, placebo
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Rog, roga
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Ask
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InterROGation, deROGAtory
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Inveterate
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Firmly established, by long persistence <overlook the obvious>
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Parsimonious
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Frugal to the point of stinginess
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Appellation
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An identifying name or title
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Audacious
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Intrepidly daring; contemptuous of law, religion, or decorum
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The audacity!
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Idyllic
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Pleasing or picturesque in nature
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Hectoring
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To play "the bully"
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Voluable
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Characterized by ready or rapid speech
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Tenebrous
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Shut off from the light
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Mesmerizing
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To subject to, hypnotize
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Supercillious
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Cooly and patronizingly haughty
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Sallacious
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Arousing or appealing to sexual desire or imagination
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Sed, sess, sid
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Sit
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Sediment, session, preside
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Pedantic
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Narrowly, stodgily, and often ostentatiously learned: imaginatively
Generic, not standing out |
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Idiosyncrasy
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A peculiarity of constitution or temperament; eccentricity
Outstanding characteristic |
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Soph
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Wise
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Sophomore, philosophy
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Tort, tors
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Twist
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Torture, retort, extort
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Ven, vent
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Clme
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Convene, intervene, convent
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Vict, Vinc
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Conquer
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Victor, convict, evict, convince
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Plous
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Sacred or devotional as distinct from the profane or secular; religious
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Vacuity
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An empty space
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Dissolute
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Lacking restraint; especially marked by indulgence in things deemed vices or addictive
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Clandestine
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Marked by, held in, or conducted with secrecy.
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Stalwart
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Marked by outstanding strength and vigor of body, mind, or spirit
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Minatory
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Having a menacing quality; threatening
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Execration
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The act of cursing or denouncing; also, the curse so uttered
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Lurid
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A causing horror or revulsion: gruesome, sensational
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Proximity
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The quality or state of being close
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