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22 Cards in this Set
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Complicity
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(n) involvement in wrongdoing; the state of being an accomplice
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Inane
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(adj) silly, empty of meaning or value
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Agnostic
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(n) one who believes that nothing is known about God
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Indictment
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(n) the act of accusing, a formal accusation
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Equity
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(n) the state or quality of being just, fair, or impartial; fair and equal treatment
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Abject
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(adj) degraded, wretched; base, contemptible; cringing
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Diatribe
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(n) a bitter and prolonged verbal attack
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Intermittent
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(adj) stopping and beginning again, sporadic
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Derelict
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(n) someone or something that is abandoned or neglected
(adj) left abandoned |
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Effigy
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(n) a crude image of a despised person
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Indubitable
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(adj) certain, not to be doubted or denied
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Travesty
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(n) a grotesque or grossly inferior imitation; a disguise
(v) to ridicule by imitating in a broad or burlesque fashion |
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Surveillance
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(n) a watch kept over a person
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Meretricious
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(adj) superficially attractive in a showy, cheap, or vulgar way
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Neophyte
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(n) a new convert, novice, beginner
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Sylvan
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(adj) pertaining to or characteristic of forests; living or located in a forest; wooded, woody
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Moot
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(adj) open to discussion and debate
(v) to bring up for discussion (n) a hypothetical law case argued by students |
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Perspicacity
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(n) keeness in observing and understanding
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Testy
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(adj) easily irritated; characterized by impatience and exasperation
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Plenary
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(adj) complete in all aspects or essentials; absolute
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Motif
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(n) a principal idea or feature; a repeated or dominant figure in a design
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Prestigious
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(adj) having a highly favorable reputation
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