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120 Cards in this Set
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To feel or live through someone else
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Vicarious
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To explain someone's action, establish a reason
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Rationalize
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To be social, enjoy the company of others
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Gregarious
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Obedient to others wants, to serve others
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Obsequious
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Having self pity, usually after consuming alcohol
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Maudlin
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Practicing serious self discipline for personal or spiritual reasons
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Ascetic
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Someone who arranges sexual encounters
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Pander
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Mischievous, difficult to control
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Wanton
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To put an end to, to make amends, to end a conflict
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Expiate
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Inconvenient time for something
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Importune
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To give or attribute
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Impute
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To give off sparks
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Scintillate
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To exude from
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Ostracize
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To disapprove of, to belittle
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Deprecate
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To stay in the countryside
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Rusticate
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To assist the progress of
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Facilitate
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to try to equal or excel; imitate with effort to equal or surpass
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Emulate
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To give everlasting life or fame
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Immortalize
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to give one's regular patronage; trade with.2. to behave in an offensively condescending manner toward
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Patronize
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a flirty girl with lighthearted intentions
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Coquette
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Person who overemphasizes minor rules or details
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Pedant
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Self seeker who attempts to win favor by flattery
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Sycophant
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Talkative
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Loquacious
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Feeling of utter weariness and discontent; boredom
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Ennui
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Lacking life; Dull; Empty
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Vapid
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commonplace, not original
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Banal
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lacking confidence or shy
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diffident
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bubbly, lively
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effervescent
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bloodthirsty, cheerfully optimistic
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sanguine
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lacking meaning or significance to the point of being silly
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inane
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Inconsistent at best, random
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Desultory
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condescending or bitter, mocking or sneering
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Sardonic
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uproariously noisy or loud
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vociferous
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lacking in courage, cowardly or fainthearted
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pusillanimous
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to act in a stealthy way
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surreptitious
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person or animal who is despised or avoided
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pariah
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final, an absolute command
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peremptory
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everywhere at once
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ubiquitous
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of interest to all, open minded
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catholic
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a traitor, one way peephole
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Judas
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to supply with anything to excess, so as to disgust or weary, to satisfy to full
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satiate
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inclined to silence, reserved in speech, reluctant to join in conversation
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taciturn
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pleased with yourself, esp. with one's situation merits, or advantage
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complacent
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strict observance of the formality
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punctilious
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of or pertaining to childish, foolish
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puerile
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a strong disagreement, disgust, and hatred
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antipathy
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an expert in a specific area, talented at something
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virtuoso
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manipulative, irresistible woman
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Circe
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the ultimate solution to all problem
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panacea
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something weird or abnormal
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idiosyncrasy
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shy person
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introvert
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outgoing and sociable person
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extrovert
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neither shy or outgoing
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ambivert
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done without particular care
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perfunctory
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getting pleasure from seeing or inflicting pain in other people
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sadistic
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stupid or dull
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crass
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a powerful or influential person
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magnate
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unconditional authority
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carte blanche
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like a corpse
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cadaverous
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very irritable
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irascible
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glib
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talkative in a superficial or fake manner
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plaintive
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expressing sad emotions or being mournful
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magnum opus
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a great literary or artistic work
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impasse
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a situation in which there is no way out
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docile
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something that is easily taught or managed
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nebulous
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confused, cloudy, hazy, vague
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dilettante
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person who takes an activity for their amusement
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coup de grace
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a death blow, esp. one delivered mercifully to end suffering and any finishing or decisive stroke
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abstemious
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sparing or moderate in eating and drinking; temperate in diet
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facet
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aspect; phase
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poignant
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aware of emotions or senses to the point of feeling strong emotions
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querulous
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complaining
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specious
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a possibility in a situation, but ultimately not what ends up happening
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unctuous
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unpleasantly flattering in behavior or speech (greasy or oily)
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vainglorious
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to be extremely boastful or prideful
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amazon
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large, strong, aggressive woman. also a river in south america
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atheist
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a person who doesn't believe in existence of God or gods
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agnostic
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believes isn't possible to prove god's existence
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penury
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extreme poverty, insufficiency
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iconoclastic
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one who attacks and seeks to overthrow traditional or popular ideas or religious images
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cursorily
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going rapidly over something, without noticing details, hasty
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concomitant
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existing or occurring with something else, often in a lessor way, accompanying, concurrent
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adroit
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cleverly, skillful, resourceful
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anomaly
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a deviation from the common rule
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fiasco
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a complete and ignominious failure
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truculent
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fierce, cruel, savagely brutal
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saturnine
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sluggish in temperament, gloomy
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macabre
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gruesome, horrifying, about death
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quicotic
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impulsive rashly unpredictable
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presumptuous
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unwarranted or impertinently bold, forward
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dogmatic
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having an overbearing closed minded opinion
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vitriolic
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describing a bitter, corrosive, or harsh person
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subversive
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rebellious or destructive
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acrimonious
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nasty in behavior and speech
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didactic
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inclined to teach or lecture too much
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lethargy
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state of being lazy, sluggish, drowsy, lacking energy
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benevolent
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characterized by showing kindness or being charitable to others
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indefatigable
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immune to fatigue, incapable of becoming tired
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imbroglio
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a complicating conflict, problem, situation, misunderstanding
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enervate
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to wipe out someone's strength or deprive them of their force, to weaken
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parvenu
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person who has suddenly risen above his social/economic class without the background or qualifications for his new status
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impunity
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exemption from punishment or penalty
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equanimity
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quality or characteristic of being calm and even tempered
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circumspect
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heedful of circumstances or consequences
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inadvertent
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accidental, unintentional
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lachrymose
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tending to cause tears, mournful
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flagrant
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shockingly noticeable or evident
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plebeian
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member of the common people
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egocentric
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self centered, selfish
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arcane
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known or understood by very few
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uxorious
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foolishly affectionate or submissive toward one's wife
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moribund
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near death, dying
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scurrilous
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obscenely abusive, course or vulgar
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soporific
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causes sleep
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non sequitur
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a statement that comes to an illogical ending
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magnanimous
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generous in forgiving
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iniquity
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gross injustice or wickedness
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esoteric
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beckoning to the select few
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forte
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a strong point
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parsimonious
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frugal or stingy
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