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49 Cards in this Set
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Altruistic
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concerned unselfishly for others' welfare
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Amenity
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the quality of being pleasant or attractive; agreeable
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Beneficent
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beneficial; characterized by performing acts of kindness or charity
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Benign
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of a kind and gentle disposition; favorable
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Boon
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blessing; something to be thankful for
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Demagogue
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leader, rabble-rouser, usually appealing to emotion or prejudice
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Depraved
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morally debased; wretched
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Diabolical
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fiendish, wicked
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Indolent
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habitually lazy, idle
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Infamy
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reputation for bad deeds
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Invidious
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likely to provoke ill-will, offensive
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Magnanimous
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generous, noble in spirit
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Malefactor
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evil-doer; culprit
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Malevolent
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ill-willed; causing evil or harm to others
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Malignant
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disposed to do evil; injurious
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Mercenary
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motivated only by greed
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Munificent
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generous
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Nefarious
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vicious; evil
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Noxious
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harmful to living things; injurious to health
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Odious
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hateful; contemptable
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Philanthropic
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humanitarian; charitable
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Profligate
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corrupt, wasteful
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Reprobate
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morally undisciplined person
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Virulent
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extremely infectious; irritating, harsh
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Exorbitant
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extravagant, greater than reasonable
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Prevaricate
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to quibble, evade the truth
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Probity
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complete and confirmed integrity; uprightness, honesty
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Rectitude
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moral uprightness; honesty
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Candor
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honesty; openness
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Furtive
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secret, stealthy
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Hyperbolic
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purposefully exaggerated language
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Feign
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to pretend, give false impression; to invent falsely
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Fawn
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to flatter excessively, seek the favor of
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Vindicate
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to clear from blame or suspicion
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Covert
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hidden, secret
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Toady
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flatter, yes-man, hanger on
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Dupe
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to deceive, trick
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Enshroud
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to cover, enclose with a dark cover
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Sycophant
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self-serving flatterer; yes-man
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Beguile
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to deceive, delude, cheat
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Abscond
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to depart secretly
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Substantiate
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to verity, confirm, provide supporting evidence
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Surreptitious
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secret, stealthy
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Spurious
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lacking authenticity, false
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illicit
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illegal, improper
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Mendacious
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dishonest
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Perfidious
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faithless, disloyal, untrustworthy
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Pretentious
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Pretending to be important, intelligent, or cultured
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Quibble
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Make trivial arguments or criticism, find faults in a petty way, esp. to evade something more important
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