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20 Cards in this Set
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Acrid
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sharp bitter taste or smell
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Debunk
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to expose the falseness of something
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Erudite
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showing great academic knowledge, learned, cultured
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Incisive
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direct, forceful, keen
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Mitigate
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to alleviate, lesson the force of something
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Pathos
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the power of arousing pity or sorrow
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Prosaic
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lacking imagination, dull
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Recalcitrant
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willfully disobedient, stubborn
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Scrupulous
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careful to do what is right or moral
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Upbraid
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to scold
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Egalitarian
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believing in equality
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Irrefutable
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incapable of being disproved
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Prolific
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highly productive
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Sardonic
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disdainfully mocking
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Trite
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overused
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Exacting
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demanding attention
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Prattle
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talk idly or childishly
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Quell
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put stop to something
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Surfeit
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excessive number
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Variegated
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having patches of different colors
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