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60 Cards in this Set
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Adulation
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worship; great praise;
excessive praise or flattery |
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Arable
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can be cultivated ("arable land")
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Compendious
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containing a lot in a small space/few words
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Conciliatory
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bringing together; ending a dispute
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Dearth
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shortage
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Debacles
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Disasters
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Facile
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Over-simplified
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Floridity
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1. floweriness in language, 2. redness
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Haranguing
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attacking verbally
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Heterogeneity
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variety; non-uniformity
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EXTRANEOUS
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not pertinent; irrelevant
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Histrionic
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melodramatic; expressing exaggerated emotion
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Imperious
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in a commanding manner
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Inscrutable
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not easy to comprehend
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Insular
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narrow-minded
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Intemperate
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not moderate; excessive
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Magnanimous
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generous minded; big-hearted
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Opacity
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lack of transparency; being opaque
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Palliative
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something that makes better but doesn't cure
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Profundity
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depth (of ideas/thought)
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Redolent
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smelling of (literal or metaphoric)
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Robust
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strong and sturdy
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Solicitous
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expressing care and concern
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Sycophant(s)
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A servile self-seeker who attempts to win favor by flattering influential people./flatterers
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Viscous
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thick and sticky
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Ambiguous
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vague
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Animosity
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hostility; hatred
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Concord
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agreement
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Conflagration
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big fire
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Consummate
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supremely good
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Cursory
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superficial
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Dalliance
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non-serious involvement; toying or playing with something
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Deleterious
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harmful
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Disparaging
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critical
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Equitable
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fair and equal
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Eulogy
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praise
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Fastidious
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very fussy; excessively concerned (esp. about cleanliness)
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Holistic
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whole; entire (Holistic viewpoint = seeing things as a whole)
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Idiosyncratic
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quirky; eccentric; unique to an individual
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Ineffable
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can’t be expressed in words
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Infelicity
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unsuitability; inappropriateness
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Intermittent
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on and off; not continuous
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Judicious
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fair; wise
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Mercenary
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seeking money above all else
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Petulant
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sulky; 1. Unreasonably irritable or ill-tempered; peevish.
2. Contemptuous in speech or behavior. (fractious) |
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Pragmatism
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practicality
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Propensity
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An innate inclination; a tendency
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Prosaic
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ordinary
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Remiss
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neglectful
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Rhetoric
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persuasive language; the ability to use language effectively.
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Sedulous
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thorough; eager
1.diligent in application or attention; persevering; assiduous. 2.persistently or carefully maintained: sedulous flattery. |
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Temporize
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put off; procrastinate
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Treacly
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too sweet; over sentimental
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Vacillated
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wavered; hesitated
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terse
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short, to the point
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chagrin
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embarrassment
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decrepit
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worn-out
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baleful
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noxious, harmful; malicious
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incongruous
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inappropriate/incompatible
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irate
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very angry
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