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20 Cards in this Set
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Affable
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Easy-going; friendly
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Alacrity
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Promptness in response; cheerful readiness; eagerness
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Alleviate
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To ease a pain or a burden
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Alliance
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A union of two or more groups
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Ambiguous
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Open to more than one interpretation
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Ambivalent
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Simultaneously having opposing feelings; uncertain
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Amiable
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Friendly; agreeable; good-natured
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Ample
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Describing a large amount of something
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Apathetic
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Feeling or showing little emotion
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Apparatus
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Equipment; a group of machines
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Apprehension
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Anxiety or fear about the future
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Arbiter
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A judge who decides a disputed issue
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Arbitrary
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Determined by impulse rather than reason
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Archaic
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Characteristics of an earlier period; old-fashioned
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Assiduous
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Hard-working
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Assimilation
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To absorb; to make similar
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Astute
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Shrewd; clever
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Augment
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To make grater, as in size extent or quanity, to supplement
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Auspicious
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Favorable; promising
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Austere
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Without decoration; strict
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