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22 Cards in this Set
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to convert, translate, metamorphose
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transmute
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to concede, deign, bestow, confer; to permit
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vouchsafe
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delusions of grandeur
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megalomania
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languor, world-weariness, listlessness
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ennui
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a "no-show" jub, suchy bov, "plum"
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sinecure
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surrogate, substitute; imagined, secondhand
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vicarious
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a rabble-rouser, firebrand
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demagogue
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an innuendo, slander, calumny, denigration
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aspersion
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to shastise, rebuke, censure, upbraid
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castigate
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furtive, clandestine, covery, concealed
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surreptitious
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grotesque, fantastic, outlandish
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bizarre
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curt, tactless, ungracious, rough
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brusque
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evil, odious, abominable, outrageous
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heinous
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to overstep, exceed, trespass; to err
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transgress
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rebellious, mutinous; a revolutionary
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insurgent
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to think up, devise, concoct, fbricate
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contrive
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to undeceive, enlighten, set straight
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disabuse
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unchangeable, unalterable, fixed, invariable
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immutable
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a feferee, arbitator, mediator; an authority
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arbiter
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to wheedle, inveigle, softsoap, sweet-talk
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cajole
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exceptional, atypical, unusual, aberrant
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anomalous
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a bond, restraint; to bind, restrain, hamper
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fetter
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