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20 Cards in this Set
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to downplay, de-emphasize, soft-pedal
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accentuate
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chic, stylish, smart, fashionable
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dowdy
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orthodoxy
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heresy
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inconspicuous; recessive
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salient
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harmless, innocuous; salutary, salubrious
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pernicious
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to efface, extirpate, root out
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inculcate
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pale, ashen, pallid, sallow; austere, stark
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florid
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short and to the point, succinct
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discursive
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to refute, contradict, undermine, discredit
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corraborate
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indulgent, immoderate, intemperate
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adstemious
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an alien, outsider, stranger, foreigner
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denizen
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adroit, tactful, diplomatic, politic
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gauche
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dense, thick, obtuse, dimwitted
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perceptive
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valid, sound, solid, genuine
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specious
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intangible, insubstantial, incorporeal
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palpable
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to bring together, concentrate, muster; to conceal, hide
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disseminate
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commendable, laudable, meritorious
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censurable
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to stand firm
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quail
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independent of unconnected with; certain
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contingent
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to starve, deprive, entirely of
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satiate
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