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35 Cards in this Set
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equivocate
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to use ambiguous language with deceptive intent
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perfidy
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intentional breach of faith
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prevaricate
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to deliberately avoid the truth
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solicitous
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concerned and attentive
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intransigent
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refusing to compromise
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penurious
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penny-pinching, ungenerous
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halcyon
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calm and peaceful
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mendacity
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the condition of being untruthful, dishonesty
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obdurate
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unyeilding, hardhearted
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opprobrium
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disgrace, contempt, scorn
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polemical
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controversial, argumentative
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rancorous
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characterized by bitter, long-lasting resentment
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inimical
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damaging, harmful, injurious
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probity
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adherence to highest principles, integrity
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profligate
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excessively wasteful
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trenchant
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sharp, keen, perceptive
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vituperate
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to use condemnatory language, berate
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brook
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to tolerate, endure, countenance
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abjure
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to renounce or reject solemly, to avoid
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adumbrate
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to foreshadow vaguely or intimate
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anodyne
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soothing
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calumniate
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to slander
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cavil
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to find fault without good reason
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contumacious
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insubordinate
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execrate
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denounce, feel loathing for
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expiate
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to atone or make amends for
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extirpate
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to destroy, cut out
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fatuous
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silly, inanely foolish
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ineluctable
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certain, inevitable
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parsimonious
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cheap, miserly
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propitiate
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to appease, to conciliate
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vitiate
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to corrupt, spoil
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abrogate
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to abolish by official means
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lugubrious
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exaggeratedly or affectedly mournful
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blandishment
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to coax by gentle urging
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