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75 Cards in this Set
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accord
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agreement
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acute
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sharp
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allegory
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everything stands for something
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allusion
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referance to somehting literary
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amenable
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agreeable, ready
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anathema
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curse
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barbarity
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acting like a barbarian; cruelty
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beneficent
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doing good
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cajole
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persuade by means of flattery
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caveat
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a warning or caution
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conjecture
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surmise
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deference
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courteous yeilding
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deplorable
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tragic, aweful
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desolate
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lifeless
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drivel
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meaningless talk, nonsense
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earnest
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determined or sincere
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edifice
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building that is impossing in size
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emanicipate
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to free from authority, liberate
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emulate
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to immitate
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enumerate
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to count off or name one by one, to list
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evanescent
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vanishing
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exult
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to leap for joy
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heterodox
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contraryor different to acknowleged standard (his teachings were heterodox as he taught us from the top of the table)
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hackneyed
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overuse, cliche, made commonplace
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impertinent
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irrelevant
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incessant
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continuous
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incisive
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sharp (intelligent)
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inclement
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severe in temper, or action, harsh
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indubitable
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most certain
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infamy
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well known for criminal act
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inscrutable
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difficult to understand
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invariably
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constantly, w/o fail
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lassitude
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tired, weary
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lurid
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terrible, gruesome
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marrow
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core
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meloncholy
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depressed
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misdemeanor
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lesser type crime
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nebulous
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cloudy, not definte "Thoreau's ideas are nebulous"
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nutriment
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anything that aids to development, ailment
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orthodox
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the norm
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pathos
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qualityof work to evoke passion or pitiful response
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perverse
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directed away from what is good and right
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physiognomy
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physical features
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plebeian
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crude vulgar, common person "plebeian joke"
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precocious
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mature for young age, exhibiting early aptitutde
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proclivity
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natural propensity
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prodigious
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marvelous, extrodinary in size
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propagate
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to multiply in number, to breed, to publicize, spread
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providence
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will of god
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quicken
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to make faster, accelerate, to make alive
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raiment
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clothing, apparel
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rend
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to tear violently, to split
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repudiate
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to reject the validity of
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salient
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prominent or conspicious
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scathing
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bitterly sever as a remark- a scathing review of the play
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scintillating
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brillinatly clever, animated
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scruples
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principles, morales
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simulate
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to create a representation of
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stringent
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rigorously binding or extracting, strict
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sustenance
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sojething to sustain you, food just getting by
college student eats roman noodles |
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tempest
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a violent windstorm; furious agitation
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throng
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crowd, large group of poeple
usually a thorng is like a mob or excited people |
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toil
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to work (neg. connotation) the slaves toiled in the field
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transcend
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to go beyond what is immediately apparent-transcend the limits of thought
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vagrant
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vagabond
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venerable
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workthy of deferenace
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vigor
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intensity of action or effect, act of bodily restraint or force
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vitriolic
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corrosive, harsh 'vitriolic criticism
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vivacity
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livliness, animation- the woman's vivacity on wheel of fortune caused for to jump on pat and then vannah.
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wanton
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uncalled for "wanton disregard
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ameliorate
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to imporve, make better
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usury
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the act of lending money in exorbitant interest
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vestment
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garment worn as an indication of office or state -pope's vestment, wear vestment of english teacher
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aprobation
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approval
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propinquity
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things that are close(2 abstract qualitites), similarity, kinship
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