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49 Cards in this Set
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Egalitarian
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Favoring social equality
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Covet
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To wish for enviously
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Reprehensible
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Worthy of blame
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Peripatetic
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Walking or traveling about
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Peruse
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To read through
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Perturb
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To disturb greatly
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Desultory
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Aimless
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Deference
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Respectful submission
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Vestige
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Trace
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Proficient
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Skillful
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Querulous
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Habitually complaining
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Premise
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An assumption
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Indignant
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Angered at something unjust
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Pragmatic
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Concerned with practical matters
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Stagnant
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Not growing
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Dogmatic
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Stubbornly adhering to insufficiently proved beliefs
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Dubious
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Open to doubt
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Concord
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Agreement
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Stratum
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A layer
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Tautological
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Repetition of same sense in different words
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Tangible
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Having substance
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Colloquial
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Conversational
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Garrulous
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Too talkative
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Remunerate
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To pay
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Paltry
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Meager
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Vacillate
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Hesitate
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Disseminate
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To cause to become widely known
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Inscrutable
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Mysterious
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Morose
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Sullen
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Contortion
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A twisted shape
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Flippant
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Lacking proper seriousness
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Stature
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Rank
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Prevail
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To succeed
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Verbatim
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Using exactly the same words
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Cosmopolitan
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Worldly
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Skeptical
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Doubting
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Propagate
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To cause to become widely known
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Proximity
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Nearness
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Resilient
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Quick to recover
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Attenuate
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To make or become thin
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Dearth
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Lack
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Apparition
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Ghost
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Incontrovertible
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Unquestionable
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Prognostication
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Prediction
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Decorous
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Exhibiting appropriate behavior
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Clandestine
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Done in secret
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Err
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To make a mistake
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Presumptuous
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Arrogant
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Fortitude
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Bravery
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