Reset/Sync Up to iCloud

Is there anyway to reset/load the iCloud Contact list form a good known source?
i.e. One way synch, from an iOS device to iCloud (The way we used to be able to do it with MobileMe)?
My current iCloud Contact list is messed up and I want to reset/reload it with a good know list from one of my iOS devices, but I can't find a way to do it, or at least it is not obviouse to me.
Any help is greatly appreciated

I did. 
I can't talk for rezab, but my original problem was that after syncing gmail, exchange, Address Book, and my iphone I had many (like hundreds) of duplicate entires, so to wrangle it wanted to start over with a "good" list of contacts.  Problem was that iCloud had my messed up set.
After wiping all of the Contacts from iCloud.com (and this takes some serious patience if you have thousands of contacts), I was able to get my clean start.
And for anyone else that would benefit from hearing my detailed steps:
1) I had my "good" list of contact on my mac address book. 
   (my guess is you could use gmail contacts or others equally easily, but I had mine in Address Book.)
2) on my iPhone disable "Contacts" from syncing against iCloud (Settings > iCloud > Contacts-Off)
3) choose "delete from my iphone" to give yourself a clean slate on your iPhone
4) after confirming all the contacts were gone, I connected my phone to my mac and manually synced the contacts from my local Address Book:
- iTunes > iPhone > Info > Sync Address Book Contacts (checked) > All Contacts
- then clicked "apply" then "sync" buttons.
5) Meanwhile, I went to https://www.icloud.com/ clicked into the Contacts section and started deleting.
6) The web app loads the contacts fairly slowly if you have a lot and you can only delete the ones that are selected so it may take some time and patience.  Finally, I got rid of all the contacts on iCloud
7) back on my iPhone, I confirmed the "good" list of contacts is loaded, then you simply turn back on iCloud sync for Contacts: (Settings > iCloud > Contacts-On)
8) After about a minute or 2 the contacts on iCloud.com was correctly showing my good list - DONE!
Sorry for the excessive details, but it's the Web...it will be useful to someone.

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