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50 Cards in this Set
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Abject
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cast down, spiritless
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Aesthetic
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sensitive to beauty
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Alacrity
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a cheerful briskness
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Auspicious
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lucky, promising, favorable
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Blatant
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obvious, obtrusive
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Capitulate
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surrender on terms agreed upon, yield
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Cogent
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persuasive, brilliantly compelling
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Conjecture
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supposition, opinion
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Cursory
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hurried, rapid, superficial
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Decorous
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proper, becoming, suitable
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Diffident
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shy, timid
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Disdain
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despise, think him unworthy
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Docile
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obedient. manageable, unresisting
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Equanimity
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composure, calm temper, evenness of mind
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Facade
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front, false exterior
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Facetious
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inappropriately witty
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Fastidious
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particular, meticulous, hard to please
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Fatuous
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silly, complacently foolish
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Flaunt
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display, show off, boast of
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Furtive
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sly, stealthy, shifty
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Glib
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thoughtlessly talkative, suspiciously fluent
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Gregarious
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good mixer, enjoy meeting people
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Harangue
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noisy, pompous speech
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Idiosyncrasy
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oddness, eccentricity
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Illicit
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unlawful, furtive
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Importune
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insistently begged, persistently urged
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Incredulous
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skeptical, disbelieving
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Inexorable
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inflexible, unyielding
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Invective
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abuse, angry reproach
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Loquacious
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talkative, garrulous
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Ludicrous
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laughable, ridiculous
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Martinet
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strict disciplinarian
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Maudlin
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weakly sentimental
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Nebulous
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vague, hazy
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Obsequious
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servily attentive, fawning
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Ostracize
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banned from social and political favor
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Panacea
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cure-all
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Pander
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appeal to someone's vice
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Placate
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appease, pacify
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Prodigious
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huge. monstrous, mighty
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Prolific
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inventive, fertile, productive
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Propensity
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leaning bent, natural inclination
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Prudent
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wisely cautious
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Redundant
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overly wordy
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Surreptitious
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without proper authority, by sly, clandestine
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Taciturn
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reserved, habitually silent
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Truculent
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fierce, savage, cruel
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Vacillate
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hesitate, waver, change
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Vilify
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slandered, maligned
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Vituperation
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verbal abuse
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