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22 Cards in this Set
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Curtail
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shorten reduce lessen
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travesty
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ridiculous imatation
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scruple
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doubt or uneasiness as to what is right or proper
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havoc
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great destructuion of confusion
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mentor
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wise trusted teacher or conselor
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haggard
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looking worn and tired
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utopian
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characteristic of an ideal society; visionary
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mercurial
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changeable; unpredictaable ;lively
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diffidnet
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lakcing self-confidence timid unassertive
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hypocrisy
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pretending to be what one is not, espiecally to have feelings beliefs or virtues that oen does not have
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abridge
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to reduce the length of a writtne text condense
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truncate
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to shorten by or as if by cutting off
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parody
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a literary or artistic work that imitates the charahcteristic style of an author or a work for comic effort of ridiclue
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compunction
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a strong uneasiness caused by a sense of guilt
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calamity
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an event that brings terrible loss lasting distress or severe affliction a disaster
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pedagogue
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a schoolteahcer an educator one who instructs in a pedantic or dogamtic manner
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gaunt
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thin and bony angular emaciated and haggard drawn
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idealistic
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relating to or having the nature of an idealist or idealism
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volatile
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tending to violence explosive
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self-effacing
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not drawing attention to onesefl modest
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duplicities
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deliberate deceptiveness in behavior or speech an instance of deliberate deceptevness double dealing twofold
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sanctimony
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feigned piety or righteousness; hypocriticla devoutness or high mindedness
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