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50 Cards in this Set
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Canine
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pertaining to dogs
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Delineate
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sketch
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Ejaculate
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exclaim
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Fecund
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highly productive; prolific
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Gibe
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mock; scoff
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Hauteur
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scoreful pride
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Impious
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irreverent
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Languid
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sluggish; listless
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Maudlin
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excessively sentimental
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Nomadic
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wandering
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Occult
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mysterious
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Paraphrase
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rephrase
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Recondite
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difficult to understand
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Sanguinary
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bloody, gory
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Temporize
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avoid committing oneself
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Utopian
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visionary; ideal
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Versatile
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able to do many things
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Wistful
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longing
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Acme
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highest point
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Benison
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blessing
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Cant
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slang
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Deluge
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flood
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Elicit
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draw forth
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Feign
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pretend
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Gird
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invest with power; fasten; surround
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Hedonist
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lover of pleasure
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Implacable
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not easily pacified
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Largess
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generous gift
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Meander
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wander aimlessly
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Nominal
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in name only
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Odium
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hatred; disgrace
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Pariah
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outcast
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Recreant
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cowardly
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Sanguine
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cheerful; hopeful; red
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Tenacious
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unyielding
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Vestige
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trace
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Wont
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custom
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Acolyte
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novice; young assistant
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Bibliophile
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lover of books
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Cantankerous
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ill-natured; peevish
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Demagogue
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a leader who stirs up emotions of the people
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Emaciated
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haggard
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Felicitous
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appropriately expressed
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Glib
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fluent
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Heinous
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atrocious
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Imponderable
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incapable of being weighed
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Lascivious
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indecent; lustful
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Mendacity
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lying
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Nonchalance
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indifference
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Officious
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meddlesome
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