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62 Cards in this Set
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Perspicacious
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Having penetrating insight or good discernment
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Modish
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Stylish, contemporary
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Contumacious
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stubborn and disobedient; resisting authority (esp. disobedient to an order made by a court)
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Sardonic
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Scornfully or ironically mocking, cynically derisive
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Insipid
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Dull, stale, lacking taste or interest
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Rend
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Tear violently, esp. to tear one's clothing or hair out of grief; pull apart, split, or tear away
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Distend
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Swell, expand, stretch, bloat
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Circumspect
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Cautious, prudent; careful to consider the circumstances and consequences
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Peripatetic
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wandering from place to place, especially on foot
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Dither
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Act indecisively (verb); a state of fear or trembling excitement
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Fractious
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easily irritated or annoyed
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Meretricious
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tastelessly showy
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Accretion
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an increase by natural growth or addition
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Apposite
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appropriate; fitting
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Arrogate
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Claim or take presumptuously or without the right to do so
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Aspersions
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Damaging remarks, defamation, slander
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Augury
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an omen or prophecy
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Circumspect
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Cautious, prudent; careful to consider the circumstances and consequences
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Cloying
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Disgustingly or distastefully sweet
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Contumacious
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stubborn and disobedient; resisting authority (esp. disobedient to an order made by a court)
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Curmudgeon
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Bad-tempered, difficult person; grouch
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Declivity
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Downward slope
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Desultory
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marked by lack of definite plan or regularity or purpose
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Disparate
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Distinct, different
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Distaff
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Female, esp. relating to the maternal side of the family; women or women's work; a staff that holds wool or flax for spinning
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Diurnal
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Occurring every day; happening in the daytime (rather than at night)
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Droll
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Funny in an odd way
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Effrontery
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audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to
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Epicure
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a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink)
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Euphony
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any agreeable (pleasing and harmonious) sounds
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Exigent
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Requiring immediate attention, action, or aid; excessively demanding
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Florid
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elaborately or excessively ornamented
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Grouse
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complain
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Hoary
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Very old, gray or white as from old age
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Impetuous
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Passionately impulsive, marked by sudden, hasty emotion; forceful, violent
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Impute
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attribute or credit to
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Incarnadine
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Blood red or flesh-colored
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Indigence
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Extreme poverty
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Insular
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Pertaining to an island; detached, standing alone; narrow-minded, provincial
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Interregnum
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A time in between two reigns or regimes during which there is no ruler; a period during which government does not function; any period of freedom from authority or break or interruption in a series
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Inure
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Toughen up; accustom or habituate to pain, hardship, etc.
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Licentious
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Sexually unrestrained; immoral; ignoring the rules
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Dyspeptic
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Grumpy, pessimistic, irritable; suffering from dyspepsia (indigestion)
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Maudlin
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Excessively sentimental, showing sadness or some other emotion in a foolish or silly way
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Politic
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Shrewd, pragmatic; tactful or diplomatic
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Prattle
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Talk in an idle, simple-minded, meaningless, or foolish way; chatter, babble
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Propitiate
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to conciliate; to appease
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Puerile
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displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity
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Pusillanimous
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lacking in courage and manly strength and resolution
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Refulgent
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Shining, radiant
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Reprobate
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a person without moral scruples
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Sinecure
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an office that involves minimal duties
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Usury
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the act of lending money at an exorbitant rate of interest
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Mired
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Stuck, entangled (in something, like a swamp or muddy area), soiled
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Monastic
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Relating to or resembling a monastery (where monks or nuns live), esp. by being quiet, secluded, contemplative, strict, and/or lacking luxuries
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Multifarious
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having many aspects
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Opprobrium
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a state of extreme dishonor
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Pejorative
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Disparaging, derogatory, belittling (adj); a name or word that is disparaging (noun)
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Recapitulate
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Summarize, repeat in a concise way
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Rejoinder
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Response or reply, esp. a witty comeback
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Repose
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The act or state of resting; peacefulness, tranquility; lying dead in a grave
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Tendentious
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Marked by a strong point of view, biased
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