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75 Cards in this Set
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Abstarct
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Theoretical: not concrete
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Levity
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Lightness
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Opaque
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Dark:not transparent
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Adversary
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opponet
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Instigate
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urge;start
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Reprehensible
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Deserving blame
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Redundant
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Superflous;excessively wordy
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Ambigous
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Unclear or doubtful in meaning
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Fallacious
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Misleading
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Ameliorate
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to improve
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Anarchist
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a person who rebels against the established order
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Converge
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Come together
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Antithesis
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a contrast; the direct opposite of or to
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Apathy
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a lack of caring; a feeling of indifference
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Diminution
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lessening; reduction in size
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Articulate
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to speal clearly and distinctly
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Ascendary
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a controlling influence
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Astute
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wise
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Atrophy
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a wasting away of something
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Augment
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to increase
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Austerity
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sterness; severity; lack of luxuries
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Banal
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Hackneyed; commonplace
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Benevolent
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Generous
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Benign
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kindly; favorable
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Bequeath
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to leave to someone by a will; to hand down
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Blasphemy
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cursing; irreverence
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Brevity
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shortness
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Cajole
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to force negatively
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Sagacious
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keen; shrewd
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Predilection
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preference
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Enervate
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to weaken
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Immutable
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unchangeable
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Innocuous
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harmless
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Magnanimous
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generous
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Emulate
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to imitate; to rival
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Deprecate
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to express disapproval of
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Conciliatory
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reconciling; soothing
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Mitigate
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to appease
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Despondent
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depressed
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Fastidious
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difficult to please
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Eclectic
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selective in choosing from a variety of sources
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Ingenuous
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Naive; young
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Trepidation
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fear
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Superfluous
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Excessive; unnecessary
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Vilify
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to slander
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Peripheral
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marginal; outer
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Effervescent
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bubbly and excited
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Altruistic
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unselfishly generous
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Condone
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to overlook
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Stoic
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a person who is indifferent to pleasure or pain
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Viable
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capable of maintaing life
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Reticence
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reserve; uncommunicativeness
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Scrupulous
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extremely thorough
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Implicit
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stated but not understood
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Indolent
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lazy
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Zealot
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fanatic
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Surreptitious
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secret
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Perfunctory
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superficial; not thorough
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Mundane
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Worldly as opposed to spiritual
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Oblivion
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state of forgetfulness
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Sycophant
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servile flatterer
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Enigma
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puzzle
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Incontrovertible
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indisputable
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Sanction
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to approve; to ratify
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Piety
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religious devotion
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Opulence
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wealth
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Virtuoso
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a highly skilled artist
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Conviction
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a strongly held belief
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Cursory
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casual;hastily done
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Delineate
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tp portray
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Exacerbate
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to worsen
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Depravity
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corruption
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Laconic
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brief and to the point
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Ephemeral
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short-lived
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Affirmation
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positive assertion
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