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20 Cards in this Set
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Deleterious
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Having a harmful effect; injurious
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Demure
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Modest and reserved
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Derived
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Copied or adapted from a source
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Despotic
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Exercising absolute power; tyrannical
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Dictatorial
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Domineering; oppressively overbearing
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Diffidence
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Timidity and shyness
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Dilatory
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Habitually late
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Dilettante
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One with an amateurish or superficial understanding of a field of knowledge
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Diligent
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Marked by painstaking effort; hard-working
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Discourse
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Verbal expression or exchange; conversation
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Discredit
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To cause to be doubted
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Disdain
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Contempt, scorn; To regard or treat with contempt; to look down on
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Disingenuous
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Not straightforward; crafty
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Disparage
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To speak of in a slighting way or negatively; to belittle
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Disparity
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Inequality in age, rank, or degree; difference
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Distend
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To swell out or expand from internal pressure, as when overly full
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Docile
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Submissive to instruction; willing to be taught
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Dogged
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Stubbornly persevering
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Dogmatic
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Stubbornly attached to insufficiently proven beliefs
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Dubious
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Doubtful; Of unlikely authenticity
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