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21 Cards in this Set
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adj., deliberately faithless; treacherous
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Perfidious
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adj., forbidden by law; improper; unauthorized
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Illicit
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n., an inconsistency; a contradiction; a difference
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Discrepancy
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v., to cover by overflowing; to flood; to overwhelm
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Inundated
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adj., costly; magnificent; luxurious; lavish
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Sumptuous
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adj., mysterious or obscure; hard to grasp; not easily understood
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Inscrutable
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n., a temporary suspension of an activity; a state of being put aside for future action
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Abeyance
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adj., from earliest times; primitive; fundamental; original
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Primordial
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adj., of the same kind or nature; composed of similar idea or identical parts of elements; uniform
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Homogeneous
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v., to extend all over; to spread or be diffused throughout
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Pervaded
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v., to announce; to indicate what will follow
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Harbinger
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n., a forerunner; a herald' a precursor
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Harbinger
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v., to issue from; or originate from
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Emanating
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n., a leader who stirs up people by appealing to their emotions; a rabble-rouser
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Demagogue
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v., to tell a lie; to evade the truth
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Prevaricated
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n., damage; harm; injury; anything that causes damage or injury
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Detriment
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adj., very disagreeable; highly offensive; hateful
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Obnoxious
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v., to punish; to criticize severely; to scold
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Chastised
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adj., not capable of being retracted, recalled, or withdrawn; unalterable
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Irrevocable
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v., to feel very sorry about; to regret deeply; to lament; to disapprove of
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Deplore
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v., to plead, or petition, on another's behalf' to act as a mediator in a dispute
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Intercede
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