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20 Cards in this Set
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Amiable |
friendly, good-natured |
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Anthropomorphic |
anything not human having human qualities |
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cognizant |
aware, knowledgeable |
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complacent |
satisfied, especially self-satisfied or smug |
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concur |
to agree |
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constraint |
repression, restriction |
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dilettante |
someone who loves the arts: usually superficially |
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disinterested |
objective, impartial, unbiased |
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elegy |
a poem written in memory of someone who died |
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emulate |
to copy, to try to equal or surpass |
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impediment |
obstruction, hindrance |
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insrutable |
not easily understood, mysterious |
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intuitive |
able to know a think without conscious use of reason |
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lantent |
existing but not completely developed |
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opaque |
hard to understand, obscure; not letting light pass through |
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precipitate |
to bring about, to cause |
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redundant |
repetitious, unnecessary duplication |
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sordid |
dirty, ignoble, mean, unpleasant |
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tacit |
unspoken but implied or understood |
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Zeitgeist |
the spirit of modern times |