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100 Cards in this Set
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accost
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to confront boldly
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adroit
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skillful
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avid
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enthusiastic
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cajole
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convince slyly
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enhance
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to make better
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fabricate
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to BS, to make up a lie
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felon
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CRIMINALs AAAAHH!
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fertive
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sly
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gesticulate
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to make exaggerated hand gestures
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hapless
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unlucky, neville longbottom
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intrepid
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brave, courageous
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irate
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furious, vexed, enflamed
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laconic
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expressing much in few words
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nuance
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a subtle difference
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plethora
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a lot of
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pretext
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an excuse
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reticent
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uncommunicative
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rudimentary
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elementary
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throng
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a lot of people
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vigilant
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watchful
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bristle
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to become rigid with anger or irritation
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caustic
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sharp, cynical, sarcastic,
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cessation
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complete stop
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condolence
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sympathy
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dupe
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gullible idiot
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euphemism
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implied meaning
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inadvertant
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unintentional
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incipient
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just starting
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incongruous
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having inconsistent elements, not harmonius
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infamous
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notorious
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jostle
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push/shove rudely
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lackluster
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dull, lacking luster
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loathe
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HHAAAATTTRRREEEDDD
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mundane
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earthly, common-place
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ominous
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OOGY BOOGY
Menacing |
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reprimand
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punish verbally
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repudiate
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to reject
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stipulate
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make a specific demand
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tremulous
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shaking, trembling
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wrest
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to yank!!! miiiinnne! :0
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alacrity
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eagerness
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aspirant
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someone who aspires to be something someday somewherreeeeeee (over the rainbooow!)
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belligerent
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war-like; violent
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belittle
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to make seem smaller
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brash
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rude, impertinent, hasty
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castigate
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punish
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disdain
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copntempt
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dregs
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most worthless part of something,
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feint
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fake move
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frenzy
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craziness
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abound
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to exist in great quantities
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annals
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historical records
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automaton
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humanoid robot
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badger
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to nag, pester
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compound
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to add to
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drudgery
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hard, boring labor
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eminent
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soon to come
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implore
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to beg for help
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indiscriminate
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not selective
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interminable
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unending
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intimidate
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to scare
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laceration
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a jagged cut
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octogenarian
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someone in their 80s
not in fact doc oct :( |
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promulgate
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proclaim
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pugnacious
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belligerent, quarrelsome
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scoff
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scorn
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scurrilous
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grossly or obscenely abusive
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solace
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comfort in misery
derivated from console |
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sordid
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filthy,vile, ignoble,
socially unacceptable. tainted? |
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tangible
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testable, fo sho!
perceptable oppisite of spectral evidence |
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acrimonious
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marked by resentment
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admonish
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to correct
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concur
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to agree on something
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construe
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to infer
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culprit
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the guilty man!!!
burn the witch! |
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distraught
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anguished
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duress
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under pressure
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egregious
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bad. really bad!! soooooooo bad! crunch (yummy) ;)
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clandestine
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secretive (duhduhduhduhduhduh- mission impossible theme)
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elicit
NOT EXPLICIT |
to draw out, to bring out.
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duplicity
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deception
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ethics
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morals
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flagrant
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OBVIOUS/ Blatant/ NO shiznit sherlock!
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impunity
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exception from rule/law
freedom from punishment |
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inane
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lacking lack.
silly! lacking significance |
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inexorable
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Unstoppable
inevidable kinda> |
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paucity
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scarcity
rampant with lack(ness) nessie! moo! oh wait rawr! |
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pernicious
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harmful
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rampant
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its going round the mountain! and everywhere else!
bad connotation |
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tolerate
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to put up with
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matron
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old laady! neenur neenur neenur!
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paradox
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self-contradictory, oximoronic
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percieve (percy!)weasley
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to become aware of
to discern |
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prognositicate
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to fortell.
looook into the ffuuuutuure through the inner eye!!! |
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realm
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world of waaaaarrrcraft!!
Somebody's zooone |
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replete
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lacking lack fo real!
totally full, stuffed! |
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steeped
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to wet thoroughly
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technology
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if you dont know now you never will. :P
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tinge
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a slight amount
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voracious
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ravenous, insatiable, unquenchable.
Not even cactus juice does the trick! |
