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24 Cards in this Set
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mirage
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an optical illusion, something unreal and unattainable
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mundane
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of the world, earthly, ordinary
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nutriment
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nourishment, food
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opprobrious
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disgraceful, infamous, causing reproach
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paraphrase
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to restate comeone else's writing in one's own words
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perfunctory
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donw without care or ineterst, or merely as a from or routine
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perverse
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deviating form waht is considered right or acceptable
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procine
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pretaining to pigs or hogs
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procrastinate
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to defer to postpone action
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prosaic
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common place, dull, matter-of-fact; literally, like prose as opposed to poetry
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quiescent
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motionless, at rest
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riblad
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coarse, vulager, often said of humor
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sardonic
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bitter, scornful, sarcastic
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shard
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a fragment or broken pice, especially of pottery
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sinecure
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an office or position that require little or not work yet offers some compensation
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suave
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urbane, polished gracious and sophisticated in manners
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surreptitiously
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clandestinely, secretly, stealthily
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termagant
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a boisterous, scolding owman, a shrew
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travesty
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a farcial imitation, an inferior imitation or likeness
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unanimous
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agreeing completely, united in opinion
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velocity
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swiftness, speed, the rate of speed
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vicissitude
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a cange or variation occurring irregularly in the course of something
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voluptuary
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a perosn dovoted to luxurious living, a sensualist, a sybarite
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wan
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sicly pale, colorless, pallid
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