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50 Cards in this Set
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to put up with; to survive a hardship
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endure
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courageous; fearless
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intrepid
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one who is indepedent and resists adherence to a group
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maverick
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stubborn; inflexible
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obdurate
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stubbornly adhereing to an opinion or a course of action
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obstinate
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to grow or increase rapidly
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proliferate
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persistence
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tenacity
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energy; power to survive
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vitality
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to absorb; to make similar
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assimilation
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general agreement
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consensus
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circumstances of a situation; environment
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context
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copied or adapted from a source
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derived
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imposed as a duty; obligatory
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incumbent
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certain to happen
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inevitable
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easily shaped or formed; easily influenced
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malleable
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to restrain or hold back
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subdue
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developed or learned; not naturally occuring
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acquired
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the ability to form or understand an idea
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conception
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a fixed or strong belief
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conviction
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stubbornly adhering to unproved beliefs
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dogmatic
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informative
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enlightening
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a feeling or understanding resulting from an experience
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impression
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the power of knowing things without thinking
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intuition
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an incorrect understanding or interpretation
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misconception
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awareness; insight
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perception
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point of view
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perspective
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having great depth or seriousness
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profound
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inborn
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inherent
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possessed from birth; inborn
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innate
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long established; deep rooted; habitual
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inveterate
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all powerful
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omnipotent
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closeness
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proximity
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difficult to capture as in something actually fleeting
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elusive
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to leave one country or region and settle in another
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emigrate
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passing away with time; passing from one place to another
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transient
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short lived or temporary
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transitory
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easy going; friendly
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affable
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responsive; agreeable
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amenable
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good will between friends
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camaraderie
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friendly; sincere
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cordial
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playfully humorous
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facetious
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hinder; interfere with
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impinge
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express grief for; mourn
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lament
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sadness; depression
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melancholy
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an economic or military measure put in place to punish another country
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sanction
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shortened; cut off
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truncated
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having to do with the appreciation of beauty
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aesthetic
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a collection of literary pieces
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anthology
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curret, modern
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contemporary
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one with an amateurish or superficial understanding of a field of knowledge
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dilettante
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