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23 Cards in this Set
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Banality
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Dreary commonplace and often predictable
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Facetious
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Playfully jocular; humorous
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Supperate
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To excrete pus
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Austere
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Sever or stern in disposition or appearance
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Ascetic
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Renounces material comforts and leads a life of austere self-discipline, esp. as an act of religious devotion
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Tocsin
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A bell used to sound an alarm
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Objurgations
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To scold or rebuke sharply; berate
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Recrudescence
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To break out anew or come into renewed activity, as after a period of quiescence
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Obscurantism
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A policy of withholding information from the public. A style in art and literature characterized by deliberate vagueness or obliqueness
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Sate
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To satisfy (an appetite) fully
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Epical
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(aka epic) constituting or having to do with or suggestive of a literary epic; "epic tradition"
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Sundering
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To break or wrench apart; sever
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Prate
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To talk idly and at length; chatter
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Mummer
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A masked or costumed merrymaker, esp. at a festival
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Fillip
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A snap or light blow made by pressing a fingertip against the thumb and suddenly releasing it. Something trivial or of little importance.
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Cupidities
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Excessive desire, esp. for wealth; covetousness or avarice
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Veracity
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truth
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Harangue
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A long pompous speech, esp. one delivered before a gathering
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Expatiating
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To speak or write at lenth: Expatiated on the subject until everyone was bored
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Embrocation
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The act or process of moistening and rubbing a part of the body with lotion
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Parapet
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A low protective wall or railing along the edge of a raised structure such as a roof or balcony.
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Flail
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A manual threshing device consisting of a long wooden handle or staff and a shorter, free-swinging stick attached to its end.
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Scourge
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A means of inflicting severe suffeing, vengeance, or punishment. A whip used to inflict punishment.
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