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70 Cards in this Set
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Abdicate
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To give up
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Acquiescent
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to carry out orders or wishes of another wihtour protest
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Bilked
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to defraud, cheat, swindle, to elude
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Blithe
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carefree and lighthearted; lacking due consern, casual
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Buptious
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crudely or loudly assertive; pushy
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Calumniate
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to make knowinglyfalse statements
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Circumspect
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cautious
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Concillatory
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overcoming distrust or hotility
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Consternation
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a state of paralyzing dismay
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Delectation
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enjoyment
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Delude
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to decieve the mind or judgment
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Denigrate
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to blacken the reputation
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Diffident
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shy, unconfident
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Dour
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marked by sternness or harshness
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Elucidate
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to explain
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Equable
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unvarying, stedy, free of extremes, undisturbed
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Excoriate
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to condemn scathingly
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Extricate
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to escape
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Fulsome
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offensively flattering or insincere
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Graft
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to unite
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Ignoble
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dishonorable
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Ignominious
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dishonorable
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Imbroglio
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an entanglement
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Impenitent
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not remorseful, impervious to moral persuasion
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Incisive
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perceptive
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Indelibl
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enduring, permanent
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Ineffable
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indescribable
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Inexorable
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not capable of being persuaded by entrety; relentless
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Jingoism
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extreme nationalism characterized by belligerent foreign policy; chauvinistic patriotism
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Lachrymose
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very sad
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Lackadaisical
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sluggish, apathetic
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Lugubrious
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sad, mounrnful
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Martinet
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strict
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Moribund
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dying, decaying
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Nepotism
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Favoritism shown or patronage granted to relatives
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Obsequious
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full of or exibiting servile compliance; fawning
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Oviate
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to make unnecessary, to foresee and prevent
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Operative
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most important
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Ostensible
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apparent
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Parsimony
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stingyness
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Percipient
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having the power of perciving
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Peremptory
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putting an end to debate; offensivly self-assured; dictatorial
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Perfidy
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untrustworthy
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Pittance
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small amount
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Ponderous
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having great weight; lacking grace; labored and dull
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Propitious
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presenting favorable circumstances; auspicious
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Provident
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Frugal; providing for the future
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Rarefy
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refine
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Remitted
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To pardon; to restore to former condition
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Remuneration
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Something, such as a payment, that remunerates
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Reprisal
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Retaliation for an injury
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Restiveness
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impatient under restriction; resisting control; refusing to move
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Revile
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Verbally abuse
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Sanguine
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Cherfully optimistic
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Sardonic
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Cynical
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Seminal
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dealing with the begining
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Solemnity
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a solemn observance or proceeding
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Strident
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loud, harsh, unpleasent noise
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Supercilious
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arrogant; haughty; overbearing
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Surreptitious
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secret
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Sybarite
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person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses
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Temerity
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reckless
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Timerous
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Timid
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Unprepossessing
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not overyly impressive; unremarkable; nondescript
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Voluble
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marked by a ready flow of speech; fluent; or turning easily on an axis; rotating
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Voluptuary
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person whose life is given over to luxury and sensual pleasures
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Yoke
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to join together
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Ubiquitous
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omnipresent
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Requite
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to avenge; to make repayment or return for
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Solemn
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serious and sober; gravely impressive; gloomy, somber; invoking religion; performed with full ceremony
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