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25 Cards in this Set
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Venerate |
Deify, apotheosize, idolize, exalt |
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Hackneyed |
banal, trite, platitudinous, insipid |
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Rancor |
acrimony, antipathy, animosity, enmity |
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Florid |
Ornate, grandiloquent, gaudy, flamboyant |
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Ephemeral |
evanescent, transient, fugacious, transitory |
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Surreptitious |
clandestine, furtive, covert, veiled |
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Deleterious |
pernicious, noxious, malignant, ruinous |
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aesthetic |
Esthetic, artistic, tasteful, gorgeous |
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sanguine |
positive, assured, rubicund, rosy |
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solicitous |
concerned, attentive, devoted, earnest |
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Vapid |
prosaic, vacuous, pedestrian, jejune, nothing stimulating |
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brusque |
curt, dismissive, terse, abrupt |
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capricious |
mercurial, impulsive, whimsical, fickle |
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credulous |
dupable, naïve, uncritical, unwary |
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diffident |
timorous, chary, insecure, unobtrusive |
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obdurate |
intransigent, recalcitrant, intractable, obstinate |
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perfidious |
insidious, unfaithful, disloyal, untrustworthy |
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repudate |
recant, renounce, abjure, reprobate |
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anachronism |
anomalous, incongruity, prolepsis, inappropriate, belonging to one time and in another
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prudent |
sagacious, judicious, circumspect, provident |
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digress |
desultory, divagate, wander, deviate |
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intrepid |
resolute, audacious, undaunted, plucky |
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pragmatic |
utilitarian, unidealistic, buiesnesslike, commonsensical. |
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archaic |
antiquated, obsolète, superannuated, ancient |
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subtle |
inconspicuous, refined, tenuous, flight |
