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50 Cards in this Set
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Abhor
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Regard with disgust and hatred.
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Abstraction
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1.The quality of dealing with ideas rather than events.
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Acme
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The point at which someone or something is best, perfect, or most successful.
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Affluence
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Abundant Wealth
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Amnesty
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An official pardon
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Assuage
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To Pacify. To lessen.
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Bilious
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Easily Irritated. Crabby
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Blase'
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Unimpressed. Indifferent about something.
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Captious
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To find fault in. To point out flaws
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Circumspect
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Warry and unwilling to take risks
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Contraband
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Illegal goods.
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Countenance
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Facial expressions. A person's face
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Deleterious
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Harmful to your health. Dangerous. Cause harm or damage.
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Despot
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Dictator. Tyrant.
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Dissident
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A person who opposes official policy. Trouble maker.
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Effrontery
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Insolent or Impertinent behavior. Brave.
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Erudite
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Having or showing great knowledge of learning
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Expatiate
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Speak or Write at leangth or in detail
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Felicitous
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Suitable. Well Chosen
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Garrulous
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Excessive talking. Loquacious. Chatty
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Gesticulate
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To use gestures. Body Language
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Hue
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shade of color or light
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Impasse
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Standstill. Deadlock.
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Ineluctable
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Unavoidable. Unresistable.
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Intransigent
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uncompromising. irreconcilable. unyielding
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Ken
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One's range of knowledge or insight
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Lucid
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Clear. Distinct. Easy to Understand
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Malinger
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Resistant against work and responsability.
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Mnemonic
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Something that Aids the progress and health of your memory
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Myriad
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Innumerable. Countless number
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Narcissistic
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Egotistical. Self-Centered.
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Odious
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Edtremely unpleasant. Repulsive
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Palpitate
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Irregular
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Paraphrase
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To repeat something in your own words
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Pedant
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A meticulous person
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Peroration
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The ending or conclusion of a speech
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Platonic
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Non-romantic relationship
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Pragmatic
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Problem. Troublesome
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Promiscuous
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Sexually let loose. Having many transient sexual relationships
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Recalcitrant
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Uncooperative with authority
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Restive
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Unable to sit still or remain silent. hard to control
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Sardonic
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sarcastic
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sensuous
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Relating to or affecting the senses rather than intellect
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Stolid
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Clam. Dependable. Showing little to no emotion or animation
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Sybarite
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A person who is self-indulgent in their fondness for sensuous luxury
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Tirade
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angry speech or rant
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Vagary
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An unexpected and inexplicable change in a situation or in someone's behavior:
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Venal
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Corrupt
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Vicarious
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second-hand. Experienced in the imagination through the feelings or actions of another person
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Vitiated
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Destroyed or Impaired
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