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87 Cards in this Set
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Soothing Mild Dull
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Bland
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Despicable; hateful; low
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Contemptible
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Lasting a long time; constant; habitual
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Chronic
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Impossible to understand; obscure
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Incomprehensible
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Harmful; mean; spiteful
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Malicious
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Not sharp-edge or pointed; blunt; dull; slow to understand
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Obtuse
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Hardworking; painstaking
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Diligent
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Disrespectful; rude and impolite; unrelated to a given topic
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Impertinent
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Expecting things to turn out badly; gloomy
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Pessimistic
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Perfectly; in theory
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Ideally
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A person who is outgoing and interested in others
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Extroverts
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Compatibility; freindliness; agreeableness; pleasantness
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Congeniality
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Full of playful good humor; genial and jolly
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Jovial
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To feel hatred or disgust toward something; to loathe; to reject vehemently
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Abhor
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A powerful business person or industrialist; magnate
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Tycoon
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Tastelessly cheap and showy; flashy
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Gaudy
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Characterizing one's deepest nature; very close association
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Intimate
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A person who believes that people act only selfish motives; a scornful person
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Cynic
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A person easily tricked or deceived;
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Dupe
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An allotment; a proportional share; a maximum number
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Quota
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A noisy quarrel or brawl;
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Wrangle
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Tool; instrament;
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Implement
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An Opponent; and enemy
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Adversary
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A bold or brilliant act
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Exploits
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To escape from or avoid; to escaoe the understanding of
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Elude
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To admit; to recognize the rights or authority of;
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Acknowledge
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Real, True; concerned wuth realities ans not the thinking of the person;
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Objective
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An act that serves an axample for later acts
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Precedent
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Something done or given to show respect or honor; an act of allience
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Homage
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To overcome; to rise above; to be above or on tip of
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Surmount
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To force a person by law to leave a building the person has leased or rented; to force out, eject
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Evict
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Unable to agree or get along; conflicting; mismatched
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Incompatible
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Later; coming after; following in time
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Subsequent
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Able to meet financial obligations; able to dissolve another substance;
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Solvent
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To shut out or exclude from a group; to banish
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Ostracize
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Given up to a habit or compulsion
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Addicted
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To take away or deprive of a right or property by deceit
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Defraud
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Loose or slack; relaxed; careless
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Lax
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Hard to overcome or deal with; causing fear
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Formidable
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Fundamental or basic; favoring basic or drastic change
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Radical
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Tempting; tormenting or teasing by keeping something in sight but out of reach
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Jaunts
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Lack of emotion or feeling; indefference; lack of interest, concern, or spirit
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Apathy
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Sharply affecting the sense of taste or smell; sharp
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Pungent
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A short pleasant trip; excrusion
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Induction
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Very wise,perceptive; having wisdom gained from experience
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Sage
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A meal; food eaten at a meal
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Repast
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Extremley hungry; predatory; greedy
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Ravenous
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An act of enrolling or bribing someone into a group, or of formally placing on office
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Cascade
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A small, steep waterfall; something that falls in a manner similar to that of a waterfall
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Inverse
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Inverted; reversed; opposite
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Tantalizing
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In agreement; harmonious; corresponding
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Congruent
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Not harmful; gentle; good-nature
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Benign
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Glowing with intense heat; very bright;
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Oppressive
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Tyrannical; hard to take; mentally or physically distressing
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Incessant
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Able to float; able to bounce back after a reverse or setback
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Buoyant
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Not letting light throug; not transparent
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Opaque
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Giving vigor to; enlivening; filling with energy
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Invigorating
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Filled with life; livley; seeming alive
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Animated
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Dark; gloomy; misty; hard to understand
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Murky
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Unceasing; never stopping
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Incandescent
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An action person or thing that impedes;
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Hindrance
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Violently agitated; disorderly; stormy
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Turbulent
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Glommy and sad; solemn and serious
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Somber
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Last or final; basic; maximum
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Ultimate
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To bring together; to bring into harmony
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Reconcile
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Acted upon rather thatn acting
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Passive
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To make something unavoidable
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Necessitated
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To be a sign of; to indicate
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Denote
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A substance used for grinding; an irritant
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abrasive
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Not capable of being made smaller or simpler
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Irreducible
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A figure of speech that compares two unliike things using like or as
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Simile
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Power, Strength, force
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Potency
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An indirect reference; a passing mention
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Aluusion
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Genuine; reliable
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Authenticity
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A rythmic flow or pattern
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Cadence
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A misleading or false idea; mistaken reasoning
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Fallacies
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A figure of speech that contains an implied comparison
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Metaphors
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Not literally true; using figure of speech
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Figurative
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Marked by special effort; dedicated
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Intensive
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An old saying; a proverb
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Adage
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Frank, Sraightforward; simple
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Ingenuous
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A three-legged stand for a camera; anyhitng that stands on three legs
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Tripod
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A raised platform for public speaking
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Rostrum
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Skillful public speaking
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Oratory
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The stock of goods or merchindice on hand; an acounting of goods
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Inventory
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A copy; a reproduction
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Replica
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A speech a character makes to himself or herself onstage that reveals his or her thoguhts to the audience
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Intonation
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