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30 Cards in this Set
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adamant
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inflexible, immovable
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affable
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friendly, courteous
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avarice
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greed for wealth
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baleful
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destructive, deadly
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benevolence
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kindness, generosity
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caustic
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sarcastically biting
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credulous
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believing on slight evidence, gullible
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deft
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skillful
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diffuse
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to spread in all directions
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dirge
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a funeral hymn
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elicit
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to bring out a response, evoke
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execrable
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extremely bad, deserving of hate
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incessant
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uninterrupted
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indignation
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anger as a result of something unjust
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infernal
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relating to hell
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misanthrope
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a hater of mankind
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munificent
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very generous
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opulence
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wealth, abundance
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officious
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insisting on providing a service not requested
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opaque
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not allowing the passage of light, difficult to understand
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pedestrian
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ordinary, unimaginative
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penitent
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showing or feeling regret for wrongdoing
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plaintive
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mournful and expressing sorrow
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precept
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a rule guiding conduct or imposing a standard
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prodigious
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great in size, enormous
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replete
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filled to capacity
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tacit
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understood, silent, unspoken
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tarry
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to delay in coming or going
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trifling
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not significant, frivolous
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venerate
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to honor, to revere
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