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50 Cards in this Set
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meager
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low, lacking in quantity
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copious
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abundant in supply/quantity
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abject
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unpleasant
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puerile
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childish; silly
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sloth
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laziness
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curtail
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reduce in extent/quantity
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wrought
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created
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teeming
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packed; crowded
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barren
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lifeless
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remote
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distant
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precarious
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uncertain
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pulchritude
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very beautiful
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comeliness
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very beautiful
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homeliness
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rustic; common
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calamitous
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catastrophic
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toadies
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flatters
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sycophant
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flatters
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herald
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official messenger that brings news
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meandering
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indirect
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circuitous
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indirect
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parochial
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narrow; limited outlook
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poignant
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keen sense of sadness/regret
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tenuous
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very weak; slight
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nebulous
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vague
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complacency
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state free from worry
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conflation
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act of grouping things together
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calumny
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slander; false statements
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incessant
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unpleasant without pause
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fitfully
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not regularly or continuously
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fleetly
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quickly
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debonair
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confident; charming
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contrite
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feelings of remorse
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disconsolate
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unhappy (without consolidation)
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insolent
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rude/arrogant; lack of respect
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smug
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excessive pride in ones self; stuck-up
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dubious
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not to be relied on; suspect
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insuperable
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impossible to overcome
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quotidian
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occurring daily
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allegory
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story; poem
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quandary
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a puzzling predicament
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repugnance
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thorough dislike
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beatify
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to make supremely happy
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conversant
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thoroughly informed
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cygnet
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a young swan
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dilapidated
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fallen into decay/partial ruin
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salient
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standing out prominently
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superannuate
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to become deteriorated
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infamy
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total loss of reputation
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brethren
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members of an association (a brotherhood)
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lave
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to wash or bathe
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