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52 Cards in this Set
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Dour
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severe or gloomy and unfriendly and unresponsive toward other people
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Suave
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Polite and charming
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Opulent
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Rich and lavish
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Recalcitrant
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Disobedient; stubbornly resisting authority
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Impervious
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Not allowing passage into or through something
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Parsimonious
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Saving, skimping, not generous
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Nostalgia
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Thinking good thoughts about the past
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Ingenuous
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Showing innocence and a lack of worldy experience
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Inclement
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Unpleasant or severe
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Apathy
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Not interested; don't care
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Alienate
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To cause someone to become unfriendly
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Vociferous
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Shouting noisily
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Cogent
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Forceful and convincing to the intellect and reason
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Reprehensible
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Unacceptable and deserving punishment
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Truculent
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Aggressive and fierce; not nice
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Extant
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Still in existence or stil alive
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Pungent
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With a strong smell or powerfully sharp or bitter taste
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Solace
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Comfort at a time of sadness or grief
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Ominous
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Suggesting or indicating that something bad is going to happen or be revealed
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Deft
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Moving or acting in a quick, smooth, and skillful way
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Feasible
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Capable of being accomplished or put into effect
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Panacea
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A supposed cure for all diseases or problems
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Invulnerable
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Not capable of being wounded, damaged, hurt or affected
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Discern
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To see something that is not very clear or obvious
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Verbatim
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Repeating word for word
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Apprehensive
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Worried that something bad will happen
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Quandary
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A state of uncertainty or indecision as to what to do
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Diffident
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Lacking self-confidence and rather shy
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Somber
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Having a tone that is dark, dull, or suitable for serious mood
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Comprised
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To incorporate or contain something; to be made up of something
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Temerity
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Reckless confidence that might be offensive
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Perpetuate
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To make something continue, usually for a long time
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Allude
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To refer to casually or indirectly
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Clairvoyant
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Supernaturally perceptive; on who possesses extrasensory powers, seer
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Conclusive
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Serving to settle an issue; final
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Disreputable
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Not respectable, not esteemed
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Endemic
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Native or confined to a particular region or people; characteristic of or prevalent in a field
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Exemplary
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Worthy of imitation, commendable; serving as a model
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Fathom
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To understand, get to the bottom of, to determine the depth of; a measure of depth in water
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Guile
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Treacherous cunning, deceit
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Integrity
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Honesty, high moreal standards; an unimpaired condition, completeness, soundness
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Itinerary
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A route of travel; a record of travel; a guidebook
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Misconstrue
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To interpret wrongly, mistake the meaning of
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Obnoxious
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Highly offensive, arousing strong dislike
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Placate
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To appease, soothe, pacify
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Placid
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Calm, peaceful
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Plagiarism
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Passing off or using one's own the writing of another perosn
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Potent
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Powerful; highly effective
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Pretext
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A false reason, deceptive excuse
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Protrude
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To stick out, thrust forth
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Stark
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Harsh, unrelieved, desolate; utterly
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Superficial
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On or near the surface; concerned with or understanding only what is on the surface, shallow
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