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155 Cards in this Set
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Desultory
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Erratic
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Impetuous
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Impulsive
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Desultory
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Erratic
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Impetuous
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Impulsive
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Exigent
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Urgent
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Dilatory
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Intended to Delay
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Burnish
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Polish
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Rostrum
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Stage for speaking
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Retinue
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Entourage, group of attendants
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Restive
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Edgy, restless
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Reprehend
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To criticize
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Reprove
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To criticize
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Respire
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To breath
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Refractory
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Obstinately resistant
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Recalcitrant
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Resistant to control
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Punctilious
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Careful to observe rules of ceremony
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Propitious
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Favorable, advantageous
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Provident
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Frugal, Prudent
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Providential
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Lucky, Prudent
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Prolix
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Tediously wordy
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Pneumatic
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Relating to air
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Precept
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Law
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Perpend
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To reflect or ponder
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Penumbra
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Partial shadow
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Peculation
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Theft of money or goods
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Parity
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Equality
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Patent
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Obvious (adj) or Unconcealed
(as well as being the document) |
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Panopoly
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Impressive array
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Orotund
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Pompous
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Opprobrious
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Disgraceful, contemptuous
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Obstreperous
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Troublesome, unruly
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Obsequy
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Funeral ceremony
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Opportune
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Appropriate
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Obloquy
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Abusive languange
Ill repute |
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Obdurate
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Stubborn
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Obsequious
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brownnoising
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Objurgate
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To scold or criticize
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Noisome
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Stinking, putrid
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Numismatics
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Coin Collecting
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Nadir
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Lowest point
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Niggling
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Petty
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Niggardly
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Stingy
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Munificent
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Generous
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Mordacious
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Hurtful, caustic, biting
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Minatory
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Threatening
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Mendicant
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Beggar
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Manifold
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Diverse, variegated
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Maladroit
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Clumsy, tactless
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Limpid
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Clear and simple style
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Lissome
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Easily flexed, limber, agile
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Lithe
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Moving with ease, graceful
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Loquacious
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Talkative
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Luxuriance
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Excessive lavishness, abundance
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Lassitude
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Lethargy, sluggishness
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Laxity
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Carelessness
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Legerdemain
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Trickery, chicanery
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Languid
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Slow
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Abase
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To humble or disgrace
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Abjure
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To reject formally
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Abnegate
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To deny or renounce
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Abscond
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To depart secretly
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Abrogate
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To invalidate or destroy
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Abstruse
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Difficult to understand
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Accede
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To agree to
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Acidulous
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Bitter or sour to taste
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Adumbrate
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To sketch or outline in a shadowy way
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Adventitious
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Accidental
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Adverse
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Unlukcy, unfavorable
Do not confuse with Averse |
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Aerie
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Nest high in the air
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Anodyne
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Something to brings relief to pain
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Antepenultimate
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Third from last
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Aphelion
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Point in a planet's orbit where it is furthest from the sun.
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Apothegm
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A short, instructive saying
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Arrogate
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To demand or claim arrogantly
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Assay
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To analyze or estimate
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Asservate
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To assert
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Enervate
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To weaken or make less
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Benighted
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Unenlightened
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Benison
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Blessing
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Betoken
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To give evidence of, to signify
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Bilious
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Bad-natured
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Billet
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Lodging and board for troop
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Blandish
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To coax with flattery
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Brigand
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An outlaw or bandit
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Bromide
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A dull commonplace idea or personh
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Callow
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Lacking sophistication, immature
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Careen
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To lean to one side
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Carom
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To strike or rebound
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Cavil
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To quibble
To raise trivial objections |
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Chagrin
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Shame, embarrassment
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Complaisant
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1) Friendly
2) Willing to accept status quo |
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Circumlocution
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Roundabout, lenghthy way of speaking
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Cognomen
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Name, any name
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Colloquy
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Conference, dialogue
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Commensurate
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Proportionate
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Compunctious
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Feeling guilty, having misgivings or remourse
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Consanguineous
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Related by blood
Kin Of the same origin |
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Consign
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To commit or entrust
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Contravene
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To contradict
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Coquette
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A woman who flirts
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Contumacious
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Rebellious
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Cosset
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To pamper
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Countermand
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To annul, cancel or make a contrary order
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Credulous
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Gullible, trusting
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Cygnet
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Young swan
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Deride
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To mock
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Diffidence
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Shyness, lack of confidence
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Distaff
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The female half of a family
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Dyspeptic
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Gloomy and irritable
Suffering from indigestion |
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Effrontery
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Impudent boldness
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Effluvia
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Outpouring of gasses or liquids
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Effulgent
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Brilliantly shinning
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Expatiate
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To wander, to discuss at length
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Expurgate
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To censor
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Gibe
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To heckle
(a taunt, a heckle) noun or verb |
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Hideboud
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Stiff, ver rigid, inflexible
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Hector
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A bully or braggart
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Impecunious
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Poor
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Pedant
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Someone who shows off learning
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Propitiate
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To Appease
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Attenuate
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To reduce in force or weaken
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Circumspect
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Cautious
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Abate
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To reduce in amount, degree, severity
Abatement: reduction of damage |
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Quiescent
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Motionless
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Specious
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Deliberately attractive
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Perfunctory
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Done in a routine way, indifferant
Obligatory but no more |
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Phlegmatic
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Calm, unemotional in temperment
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Insouciance
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Nonchalance
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Panegyric
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A speach in praise of something
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Ponderous
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Slow and clumsy
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Sere
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Dry
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Clement
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Mild or merciful
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Lachrymose
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Tearful
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Malediction
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Curse
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Sedulous
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Showing dedication, dilligence
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Convivial
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Friendly, social, gets along well with others
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Saturnine
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slow and gloomy
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Propitiate
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To win favor and appease
The opposite of provoke |
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Improvidence
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Lacking foresight
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Obviate
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To forfend
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Cozen
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To trick or deceive
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Cadge or Wheedle
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Cozen
To obtain something you have no claim to, perhaps deceptively |
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Depredation
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The act of preying or plundering
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Ingenuous
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Credulous
Guillible and naive |
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Deprecration
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To belittle, put down or mock
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Ragose
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Having many wrinkles or ridges
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Insensible
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1) Without one's faculties
2) Unaware, indifferent 3) Callous 4) Too small to be perceived |
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Callow
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Immature
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Craven
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Cowardly
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Ingenuous
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Hopelessly straightforward
Innocent, Gullible Credulous |
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hortatory
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Tending to exhort, to urge or press someone
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Emulate vs Imititate
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Emulate means to pattern your behaviour or demeanor after someone
Imititate is just to copy |
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Descry
versus Decry |
Descry: To make open or plain by saying, to declare
Decry: To condemn |
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Discomfit
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To make someone feel uneasy or embarrassed
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Flaut
versus Flaunt |
Flaut: to show obvious disregard
Flaunt: to brazenly or pretentiously show-off |