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67 Cards in this Set
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ABATE
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to lessen in intensity or degree
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ABERRANT
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deviating from the norm
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ABJURE
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to renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid
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ABROGATE
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to abolish or annul by authority; put down
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ABSCISSION
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act of cutting off or removing
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ABSCOND
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to depart clandestinely; to steal off and hide
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ABSTAIN
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to refrain from an activity
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ACCOLADE
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an expression of praise; an award
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ACCRETION
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growth, increase by successive addition, building up
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ACERBIC
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having a sour or bitter taste or character
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ACUMEN
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quick, keen, or accurate knowledge or insight
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ADMONISH
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to reprove; to express warning or disapproval
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ADROIT
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adept, dexterous
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ADULATION
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excessive praise; intense adoration
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ADULTERATE
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to reduce purity by combining with inferior ingredients
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ADUMBRATE
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to foreshadow vaguely, intimate, suggest, or outline sketchily
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ADVOCATE
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to argue for or support a cause
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AESTHETIC
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dealing with, appreciative of, or responsive to art or the beautiful
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AGGRANDIZE
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to increase in intensity, power, or prestige; to make appear greater
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ALACRITY
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eager and enthusiastic willingness
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ALCHEMY
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a magical or wonderful transformation
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ALLOY
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to commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior
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AMALGAMATE
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to combine several elements into a whole
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AMBIGUITY
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uncertainty in meaning
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AMBIVALENCE
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the quality of having opposing ideas or feelings
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AMELIORATE
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to make better or more tolerable
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AMENABLE
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agreeable; responsive to suggestion
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ANACHRONISM
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something or someone out of place in terms of historical or chronological context
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ANATHEMA
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a solemn or ecclesiastical (religious) curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing
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ANODYNE
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soothing
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ANOMALY
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deviation from the normal order, form, or rule; abnormality
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ANTAGONIZE
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to irritate or cause hostility
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ANTIPATHY
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aversion, dislike
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ANTITHETICAL
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diametrically opposed, as in antithesis
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APATHY
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lack of interest or feeling
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APOCRYPHAL
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of dubious authenticity or origin; spurious
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APOGEE
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farthest of highest point; culmination; zenith
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APOSTATE
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one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions, a betrayer of a cause
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APOTHEOSIS
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deification, glorification to godliness, the perfect example
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APPOSITE
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appropriate, pertinent, relevent, apropos
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APPRISE
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give notice to, inform
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APPROBATION
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an expression of approval or praise
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APPROPRIATE
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to take for one's own use, confiscate
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ARABESQUE
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complex, ornate design
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ARCANE
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mysterious, abstruse, esoteric, knowable on to initiates
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ARCHAIC
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outdated; associated with an earlier, perhaps more primitive time
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ARDUOUS
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strenuous, taxing, requiring significant effort
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ARRANT
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impudent; in every way, being completely such, bare-faced, utter
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ARREST
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to suspend; to engage
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ARTICULATE
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to enunciate or pronounce clearly; to express oneself clearly
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ARTLESS
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completely without guile; natural, without artificality
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ASCETIC
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one who practices rigid self-denial, especially as an act of religious devotion
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ASPERITY
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severity, rigor; roughness, harshness; acrimony, irritability
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ASPERSION
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an act of defamation or maligning
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ASSIDUOUS
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diligent, hard-working
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ASSUAGE
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to ease or lessen; to appease or pacify
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ASTRINGENT
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having a tightening effect on living tissue; harsh; severe
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ATTENUATE
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to rarefy, weaken or make thinner, lessen
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AUDACIOUS
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daring and fearless; recklessly bold
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AUGURY
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omen, portent, the reading of omens
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AUGUST
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majestic, venerable
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AUSPICE
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protection or support, patronage
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AUSPICIOUS
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favorable, propitious, successful, prosperous
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AUSTERE
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without adornment; bare; severely simple; ascetic
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AVARICE
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greed, especially for wealth
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AVER
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to state as a fact; to confirm or support
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AXIOM
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a universally recognized principle; a generally accepted or common saying
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