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55 Cards in this Set
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Candid
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Indicating or suggesting sincere honesty and absence of deception
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Dormant
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marked by suspension of activity
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evocative
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tending to serve or come forth
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deft
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having the ability to do something with great skill and easily
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exhalation
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the releasing of air from the lungs
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grimace
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a facial expression that indicates pain or digust
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legacy
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something recieved from an ancestor
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Malaise
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an indefinite feeling of debility or lack of health indicating a more serious sickness
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infatuated
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struck senseless with exaggerated love or admiration
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profusely
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excessively
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demean
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to degrade
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genuflect
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to touch the knee tho the floor
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obsequious
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disgustingly sweet
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complacence
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calm or secure satisfaction with one's self or situation...self satisfied with no hopes for the future
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Bland
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not irritating, stimulating, or invigorating...soothing
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portentous
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showing ones self as being something special
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brusque
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blunt or in a manner of speech often to the point of being harshor nasty
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quarry
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one that is hunted...open excavation
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loquacious
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pointlessly or annoyingly talkative
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pander
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to cater to the desires of someone
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arbitrary
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selected at random or with out reason
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contrive
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to think up...to put together
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delineate
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to describe in sharp vivid detail
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amibiguity
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anything that is not clear or capable of being understood in atleast 2 different ways
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saunter
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walk in a leasurley manner
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dilatory
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tending to cause delay
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polychromatic
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having various colors
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wistful
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full of unfulfilled longing or desire
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vacillate
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to waver in mind, will, or feeling...to hesitate in choice of opinions
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paroxysm
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a sudden out burst of laugher, rage or sneezing... a fit or spasm
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hirsute
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hairy...covered with coarse, stiff hair
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affinity
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an attraction to someone or something
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egress
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an exit
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emanate
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to come forth from its source
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obstreperously
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noisily, boisterously, or uncontrollably
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tenous
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having little strength or support
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sublime
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lofty, grand, or exalted in thought or manner or expression
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sconce
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candles with holders that have sides that are taller than the candles
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limpid
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absolutely quiet and untroubled
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myraid
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a great many
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ostensible
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suspected as the reason though it can not be proven or demonstrated
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rescind
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to make void... to repeal
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alleged
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asserted as being true or to exist...not yet found guilty
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impasse
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a difficulty having no recognizable escape or solution
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amenity
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something that gives material comfort or convienience
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eidetic
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marked by extraordinarily accurate and vivid recall
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intuitive
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having to do with perceiving or knowing things without conscious reasoning
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imminence
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the quality or state of being ready to take place
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irrepressible
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impossible to hold back or control
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revel
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to take intense satisfaction
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impetuous
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marked by force of movement or action
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gossamer
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something light, delicate or tenuous
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accost
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to approach and speak to in a challenging or aggressive way
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swathead
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wrapped up or bound up in long strips of cloth
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grub
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to dig in the ground
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