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32 Cards in this Set
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Dun
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(verb) To demand a debt
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Efficacious
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(adj) Effective, efficient
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Equanamity
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(noun) calmness, tranquility
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Imperious
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(adj) Overbearing, arrogant
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Invective
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(noun) denunciation
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Motley
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(adj) showing variety
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Munificient
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(adj) extremely generous, lavish
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Recondite
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(adj) exceeding ordinary knowledge
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Reprobate
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(noun) depraved person
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Abstemiuos
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(adj) moderate, sparing, temperate
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Discursive
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(adj) wandering, passive, nomadic
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Foist
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(verb) pass off, palm off, impose by fraud
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Inculcate
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(verb) to impress or teach persistently
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Pernicious
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(adj) Extremely harmful, deadly
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Salient
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(adj) leaping, prominent, projecting
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Specious
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(adj) deceptive, apparantely good
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Contiguous
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(adj) side by side, touching, adjacent
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Implicit
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(adj) implied, inferred, unspoken
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Prosaic
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(adj) dull, matter of fact, straightforward
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Sanctimonious
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(adj) hypoctritical
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Aver
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(verb) to affirm or declare
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Collate
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(verb) to sort out, rearrange
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Foment
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(verb) to promote trouble
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Impassive
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(adj) showing no emotion
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Inauspicious
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(adj) unfavorabel, unlucky, untimely
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Prolific
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(adj) productive, abundant
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Extraneous
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(adj) foreign, incidental
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Obdurate
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(adj) stubborn, unyielding
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Precocious
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(adj) forward, gifted, advanced
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Sententious
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(adj) self-righteous
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Surfeit
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(noun) excess or overindulgence
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Tortuous
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(adj) winding, twisted, crooked
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