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52 Cards in this Set
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Audacious |
Bold |
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Cryptic |
Secretive |
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Banal |
Boring, every day activity, unoriginal |
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Chortle |
Muckle or laugh |
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Mitigate |
Make less severe or intense |
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Deferential |
Respect |
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Platitude |
Obvious or trite remark |
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Querulous |
Habitually complaining |
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Bucolic |
Pleasant thing about a country |
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Eschew |
Avoid or to stay away from |
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Gossamer |
Lightness and delicacy |
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Entrenched |
Fixed firmly or securely |
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Impudent |
Improperly forward and bold |
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Glut |
In abundant, excessive |
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Preclude |
Make impossible |
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Prescience |
Ability to forsee future |
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Meticulous |
Careful |
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Conspicuous |
Clearly visible |
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Superfluous |
More than needed |
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Exacerbate |
Make worse |
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Obscure |
Make unclear |
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Volubility |
Quality of talking continuously |
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Concede |
Give up, acknowledge defeat |
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Gall |
Quality of being rude and impertinent |
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Apathetic |
Marked by lack of interest |
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Culpability |
State of guilt |
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Mawkish |
Overly sentimental |
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Diffident |
Lacking self confidence |
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Lambasted |
Critize severely angrily |
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Incisive |
Ability to find or draw out finite distinction |
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Culminate |
Reach the highest point or most decisive point |
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Decorous |
Good taste in manners |
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Torpor |
Lazy, dormant |
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Aesthete |
Posses great sensitivity to the beauty of art and nature |
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Vociferous |
Vehement strong cry |
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Inexorable |
Impossible to stop |
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Dictatorial |
Absolute ruler |
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Preclude |
Keep from happening or arising |
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Didactic |
Instructive |
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Frivolous |
Flippant, not having value or purpose |
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Aesthetic |
Concerned with appreciation of beauty |
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Germane |
Relevant and appropriate |
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Perfidy |
the state of being deceitful and untrustworthy. |
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Rustic |
Characteristics of rural life |
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Engender |
Produce, cause, give rise to |
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Dogmatic |
Highly opinionated |
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Reticent |
Not revealing one's thought |
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Predilection |
Strong liking |
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Gainsay |
Deny or contradict |
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Recondite |
Obscure, arcane |
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Fortuitous |
Happening by chance, unexpected |