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25 Cards in this Set
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Aesthetic
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having a sense of the beautiful, sensation or emotion
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aloof
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at a distance in feeling or emotion or interest, indifferent
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archaic
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marked by characteristics in an earlier period, old or out of use
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assuage
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to make milder or less severe, to mitigate
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belie
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to show to be false, to contradict
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contentious
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tending to argument or strife, quarrelsome
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daunt
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to overcome with fear, to intimidate, to lessen in courage
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debilitate
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to make weak
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discord
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disagreement, strife, war, difference of opinion, tension
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dissemination
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distributing widely, a scatter
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dogmatic
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pertaining to a certain doctrine, strongly opinionated
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duplicity
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deceitfulness in speech or conduct, acting two different ways on one subject, hypocrite
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egocentric
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regarding onself as the center of all things, self centered
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euphemism
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substituting a word for something more severe or offensive
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gluttonous
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being greedy or taking too much (food or drink)
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mundane
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common, ordinary, banal
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ominous
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portending evil or harm, threatening
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petulance
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state or quality of being rude or irritating
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pompous
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being ostentatious, outwardly showy, bombastic
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precocious
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early in development, prematurely developed
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slothful
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sluggishly, lazy
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trivia
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matters that are unimportant, insignificant
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verbose
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characterized by the use of too many words
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virulent
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highly infective, malignant, poisonous
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volatile
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quickly vaporized, quickly changeable, explosive`
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