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93 Cards in this Set
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Pernicious
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Extremely harmful; Potentially causing death
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Virulent
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Extremely harmful or poisonous; bitterly hostile or antagonistic
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Perfidy
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interntional breech of faith; treachery
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Avarice
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Greed; Esp for wealth
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Castigation
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Severe criticism or punishment
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Caustic
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burning or stinging; causing corrosion
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Chary
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wary; cautious sparing
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Cogent
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Convincing; appealing foricbly to the mind or reason
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Contrite
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Regretful; penitent; seeking forgivness
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Putrefy
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To rot' to decay and give off foul odor
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Odious
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Evoking intense aversion or dislike
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Inveigle
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To obtain by deception or flattery
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Intransigent
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Refusing to compromise
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Inert
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Unmoving; lethargic; sluggish
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Impecunious
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lacking funds; w/o money
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Heretical
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Violating accepted dogma or convention
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Harrangue
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To deliver a pompous speach or tirade
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Esoteric
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Intended for or understood by a small, specific group
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Dogmatic
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Stubbornly opinionated
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Demur
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to question or oppose
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Dearth
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Smallness or quantity or number; scarcity; a lack
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Fulminate
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to loudly attack or denounce
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Aberrant
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deviating from the norm
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Austere
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w/o adornment; bare; severly simple
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Ascetic
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one who practices rigid self-denial, esp. as an act of religous devotion
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Ephemeral
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brief; fleeting
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Oviate
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to anticipate and make unnecessary
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Onerous
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troubling; burdensom
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Perfunctory
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Cursory; done w/o care or interest
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Prevaricate
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to deliberately avoid the truth; to mislead
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Relegate
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to focibly assign, esp. to a lower place or position
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Penurious
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Penny-pinching; excessivly thrifty; ungenerous
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Inured
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Accustomed to accepting something undesirable
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Stymie
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to block; thwart
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Effrontery
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Extreme boldness; presumptuousness
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Reticent
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Quiet; reserved; reluctant to espress thoughts and feelings
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Contentious
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arumentative; quarrelsome; causing controversy or disagreement
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Irascible
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Easily angered; prone to tempramental outbursts
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Enervate
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to weaken; to reduce in vitality
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Equivocate
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to use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent
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Bombast
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self-important or pompous writing or speech
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Diatribe
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a harsh denunciation
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Flout
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to demonstrate contempt for, as in a rule or convention
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Garrulous
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Pointlessly talkative; talking to much
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Glib
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marked by ease or infromatlity; non-chalant; lacking in depth; superficial
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Hubris
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Arrogant presumption or pride
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Idolatrous
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Given to intense or excessive devotion to something
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Impetuous
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Hastily or rashly engergetic; implusive and vehement
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Implacable
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Not capable of being appeased or significantly changed
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Laconic
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Using few words; terse
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Mendacity
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Dishonesty
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Mercurial
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Characterized by rapid and unpredictable change in mood
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Odburate
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Unyeilding; hardhearted; intractable
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Obfuscate
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To deliberatly obscure; to make confusing
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Obstinate
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stubborn; hardheaded; uncompromising
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Opprobrium
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Disgrace; contempt
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Phlegmatic
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Calm; sluggish; unemotional
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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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Soporific
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Causing drowsiness; tending to induce sleep
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Anachronism
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Something or someone out of place in terns of historical or chronological context
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Derision
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Scorn; ridicule; contemptuous treatment
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Desiccate
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to dry out or dehydrate; to make dry or dull
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Dilettante
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one with an amateurish or superficial interest in the arts or a branch of knowledge
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Inimical
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Damaging; harmful; injurious
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Intractable
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Not easily managed or directed; stubborn; obistinate
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Profligate
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Excessivly wasteful; recklessly extravagant
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Quixotic
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foolishly impractical; marked by lofty romancti ideals
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Recondite
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hidden; concealed; difficult to understand; obscure
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Renege
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To fail to honor a commitment; to go back on a promise
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Spendthrift
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One who spends money wastefully
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Tacit
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Implied; not explicitly stated
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Untenable
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Indefensible; not viable; uninhabitable
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Vacillate
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To waver indecisively b/w one course of action or opinion and another; to waver
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Vexation
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Annoyance; Irritation
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Vituperate
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To use harsh condemnatory language; to abuse or censure severly or abusivly; to berate
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Dissemble
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To mislead; to disguise or conceal
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Grandiloquence
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Pompous speech or expression
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Hackneyed
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Rendered trite or common place by frequent usage
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Hegemony
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The consistent dominance of one state or ideaology over others
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Iconoclast
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One who attacks or undermines traditional conventions or institutions
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Impassive
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Revealing no emotion
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Inchoate
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In an intial stage; not fully formed
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Infelicitous
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Unfortunate; inappropriate
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Occlude
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To obstruct or block
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Penury
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Poverty; desititution
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Querulous
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Prone to complaining or grumbling
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Reclacitrant
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Obstinately defiant of authority; diffifult to manage
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Tenuous
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Having little substance or strength; flimsy; weak
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Surfeit
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Excess; overindulgence
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Spurious
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Lacking authenticity or validity; false; counterfeit
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Specious
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Seeming true, but actually being fallacious; misleadingly attractive
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Repudiate
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to refuse to have anything to do with; to disown.
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