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32 Cards in this Set
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Blithe
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merry, joyus
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convivial
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fond of eating and drikning with friends, sociable
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ecstatic
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in ecstasy, enraptured
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ascetic
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person who shuns pleasures and lives simply
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compunction
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regret, remorse, misgiving, qualm, scruple
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maudlin
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weakly sentimental and tearful
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pensive
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thoughtful in a sad way, melancholy
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poignant
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painfully touching, piercing
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haggard
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careworn, gaunt
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curry favor
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seek to gain favor by flattery
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fulsome
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offensive because of insincerity, repulsive, disgusting
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obsequious
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showing excessive willingness to serve, subservient, fawning
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truckle
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submit into subservient manner to a superior, fawn, make a doormat of oneself
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apiary
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place were bees are kept
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aviary
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place were birds are kept
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badger
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tease, annoy,nag
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lionize
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treat as highly important
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fester
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form pus, rankle, rot, putrefy
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morbid
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gruesome
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salubrious
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healthful
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encomium
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speech or writing or high praise, tribute, panegyric
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kudos
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fame or praise due to achievment
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calumnious
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falsely and maliciously accusing, defamatory, slanderous
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libel
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false and defamatory printed statement
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slander
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false and defamatory spoken statement, calumny
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stigma
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mark of disgrace
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droll
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odd and laughter provoking
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facetious
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in the habit of joking, said in jest without serious intent
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ludicrous
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exciting laughter, ridiculous, farcical, absurd
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sardonic
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bitterly sarcastic, mocking, sneering
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satire
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language or writing that exposes follies or abuses by holding them up to ridicule
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travesty
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imitation that makes a serious thing seem ridiculous mockery
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