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70 Cards in this Set
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empathize
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to experience vicariously
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patronizing
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condescending
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enigma
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puzzle
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ploy
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strategic maneuver
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charlatan
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coniving fraud
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hellacious
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agonizing
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grovel
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behave obsequiously
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archetype
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original model
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lout
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boorish person, rude person
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al dente
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firm
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prattle
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talk meaninglessly
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legerdemain
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artful trickery
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Vicissitudes
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ups and downs
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Aver
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to declare or assert in a positive manner
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Supplication
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an earnest, humble request
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Immutable
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unchangeable
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Predilection
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preference
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Transcendent
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beyond ordinary limits
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Discernment
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Good judgement & understanding
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Presage
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to make a prediction
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Rectitude
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moral value, rightness of principle
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Magnanimous
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high-minded or noble
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Felicity
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state of feeling happy
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Propitious
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favorable
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Despondence
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depression of spirits from loss of courage
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Palliate
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to relieve without curing, to alleviate
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Pecuniary
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referring to money
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o Nationalism
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(n) patriotism, loyalty to one’s nation
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o Unilateralist
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(n) someone who acts alone or on behalf of one side/party/nation
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o Preempt
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(v) to claim, forestall by acting first
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o Stateless
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(adj) lacking a nationality
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o Civitas
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(n) a body of people constituting a politically organized community
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o Mandate
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(n) authorization to act
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o Enfranchise
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(v) to grant or admit to citizenship, to set free
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o Appeasement
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(n) yielding to often unreasonable demands, pacification
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o Despotic
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(adj) tyrannical, oppressive
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o Casus belli
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(n) an event that triggers or justifies a declaration of war
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o Sanctions
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(n) punitive measures designed to put pressure on another country
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o Consensus
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(n) collective opinion or judgment
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o Accord
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(n) diplomatic agreement without the binding force of a treaty
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o Onus
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(n) difficult obligation or task
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o Vexillogy
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(n) study of flags
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supercilious
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arrogant, haughty
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- Complacency
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= self-satisfaction, unconcern-
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- Peremptory
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= imperious, commanding, admitting no contradiction
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- Hauteur
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= arrogance
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- Affectations
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show, pretense, display
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- Subterfuges
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deception
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- Punctilious
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careful, precise
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- Harrowed
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tormented, frightened
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- Meretricious
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tawdry, gaudy
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- Ineffable
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= indescribable, unspeakable, can’t be expressed
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- Libertine
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person unrestrained by morality
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- Fortuitously
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fortunately, luckily
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- Pasquinade
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satire, lampoon
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- Pandered
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catering to or exploiting the desires of others, especially in love
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upercilious
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arrogant, haughty
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- Complacency
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= self-satisfaction, unconcern-
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- Peremptory
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= imperious, commanding, admitting no contradiction
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- Hauteur
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= arrogance
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- Affectations
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show, pretense, display
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- Subterfuges
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deception
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- Punctilious
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careful, precise
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- Harrowed
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tormented, frightened
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- Meretricious
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tawdry, gaudy
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- Ineffable
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= indescribable, unspeakable, can’t be expressed
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- Libertine
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person unrestrained by morality
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- Fortuitously
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fortunately, luckily
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- Pasquinade
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satire, lampoon
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- Pandered
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catering to or exploiting the desires of others, especially in love
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