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58 Cards in this Set
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aesthetic
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concerning the appreciation of beauty
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aggrandize
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to increase in power, influence, and reputation
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antipathy
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extreme dislike
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ardor
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intense and passionate feeling
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attenuate
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to reduce in force or degree; to weaken
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audacious
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fearless and daring
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austere
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stern or severe in appearance; undecorated
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banal
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predictable, cliched, boring
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bombastic
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pompous in speech and manner
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chicanery
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deception by means of craft or guile
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credulous
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too trusting; gullible
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desiccate
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to dry out thoroughly
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desultory
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jumping from one thing to another; disconnected
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diffident
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lacking self-confidence
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dilatory
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intended to delay
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disabuse
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to set right; to free from error
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dessemble
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to present a false appearance; to disguise one's real intentions or character
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elegy
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a sorrowful poem or speech
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enervate
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to reduce in strength
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engender
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to produce, cause, or bring about
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enigma
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a puzzle; mystery
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equivocate
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to use expressions of double meaning in order to mislead
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erudite
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learned, scholarly, bookish
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estimable
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admirable
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exculpate
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to clear from blame; prove innocent
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exigent
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urgent; requiring immediate action
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fervid
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intensely emotional; feverish
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florid
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excessively decorated or embellished
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foment
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to arouse or incite
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garrulous
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tending to talk a lot
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guile
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deceit or trickery
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iconoclast
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one who opposes established beliefs, customs, and institutions
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impetuous
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quick to act wihtout thinking
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inchoate
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not fully formed; disorganized
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inimical
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hostile; unfriendly
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inteansigent
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uncompromising; refusing to be reconciled
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laconic
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using few words
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loquacious
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talkative
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malinger
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to evade responsbility by pretending to be ill
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obdurate
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hardened in feeling; resistant to persuasion
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obsequious
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overly submissive and easger to please
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obviate
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to prevent; to make unnecessary
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opprobrium
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public disgrace
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pedant
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someone who shows off learning
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perfidious
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wililng to betray one's trust
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perfunctory
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done in a routine wat; indifferent
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prevaricate
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to lie or deviate from the truth
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prodigal
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lavish, wasteful
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propitiate
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to conciliate; to appease
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prudence
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wisdom, caution, or restraint
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quiescent
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motionless
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reticent
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silent, reserved
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rhetoric
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effective writing or speaking
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specious
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deceptively attractive; seemingly plausible but fallacious
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stolid
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unemotional; lacking sensitivity
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sublime
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lofty or grand
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torpor
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extreme mental and physical sluggishness
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vex
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to annoy
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