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25 Cards in this Set
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Labyrinth
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Coil, Complexity, complication, convolution, entanglement, intricacy, morass, mesh, web, problem, puzzle, skein, network
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Machiavellian
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cunning, acute, artful, cagey, canny, insidious, subtle
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mellifluous
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fluent, articulate, declamatory, persuasive, loquacious, voluble, vocal
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nomad
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wanderer, itenerant, migrant, rambler, rover, vagabond
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ostentatious
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flashy, boastful, class, conspicuous, dashing, garish, gaudy, grandiose, pretentious, spectacular
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paradox
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contradiction, absurdity, ambiguity, anomaly, enigma, error, inconsistency
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pathos
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sadness, desolation, emotion, feeling, passion, plaintiveness, poignance, sentipent. quality thaty arouses feelings of pity, sympathy, tenderness, or sorrow
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pensive
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meditative, absorbed, attentive, cogitative, contemplative, dreamy, melancholy, ruminative
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philistine
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barbarian, savage, barbarous, boorish, brutal, uncouth, vulgar
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poignant
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affecting, agitating, agonizing, bitter, disturbing, emotional, sentimental, upsetting, impressive
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prate
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babble, blubber, jabber, mumble, murmur, rave
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propinquity
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contact, touching, approximation, closeness, collision, connection, contiguity, contigence, impingement, juxtaposition, nearness, proximity
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redress
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compensation, amendment, assistance, atonement, balancing, concillation, recompense, remission, restitution, reparation.
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reticent
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secretive, bashful, close, uncommunicative
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satiated
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nonchalant, apathetic, bored, disenchanted, mondaine, oddhand, unmoved, weary
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staccato
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short and detached, disjointed,
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succinct
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brief, blunt, breviquent, brusque, compact, compendiary, compendious, concise, condensed, laconic, pithy, short, summary, terse
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sycophant
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groveler, ass-kisser, lickspittle, yes man
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tenacious
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strong, adamant, bound, determend, pertinacious, persistant, stalwart
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tyro
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apprentice, learner, probationer
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vainglorious
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boastful, bragging, arrogant, egotistical, pretentious
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verbosity
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effusion, outpouring, diffusion, effluence
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virtuoso
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expert, adept, authority, maestrom, prodigy, genius
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vivacity
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action, activity, agility, alertness, commotion, movement
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wanton
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immoral, abandoned, dissapated, dissolute, libidinous, profligate
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