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20 Cards in this Set
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Animosity
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(n.) strong dislike; bitter hostility
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Apathy
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(n.) a lack of feeling, emotion, or interest
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Apprehensive
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(adj.) fearful or anxious, especially about the future
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Commend
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(v.) to praise, express approval; to present as worthy of attention; to commit to the care of
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Compatible
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(adj.) able to get along well together; capable of use with some other model or system
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Codolence
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(n.) an expression of sympathy
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consecrate
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(v.) to make sacred, hallow; to set apart for a special purpose
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Decrepit
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(adj.) old and feeable; worn-out, ruined
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Deride
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(v.) to ridicule , laugh at with contempt
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Ingenuous
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(adj.) innocent, simple;frank, sincere
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Multifarious
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(adj.) having great variety; numerous and diverse
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Obsolete
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(adj.) out-of-date, no longer in use
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Omnivorous
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(adj.) eating every kind of food; eagerly taking in everything, having a wide variety of tastes
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Parsimonious
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(adj.) stingy, miserly,; meager, poor, small
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Queandary
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(n.) a state of perplexity or doubt
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Recalcitrant
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(adj.) stubbornly disobedient, resisting authority
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Reprisal
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(n.) an injury done in return for injury
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Revel
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(v.) to take freat pleasure in; (n.) a wild celebration
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Stulfify
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(v.) to make ineffective or useless, cripple; to have a dulling effect on
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Suave
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(adj.) smoothly agreeable or polite; pleasing to the senses
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