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100 Cards in this Set
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Dolorous
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Sad, Mournful
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Gregarious
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Sociable
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Diligent
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Hard-Working
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Abate
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To reduce in amount, degree, or intensity; to lessen
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Aberration
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A departure from the normal
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Accolade
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Praise or approval
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Accure
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To be added by growth
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Acme
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Highest Point
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Acolyte
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Novice: young assistant
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Abet
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To encourage or help, especially in doing something wrong
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Acrimonious
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bitter in language or manner
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Acumen
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Insight
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Adamant
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firm in purpose or opinion: unyeilding
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Admonition
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Warning
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Adulation
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excessive praise
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Aesthetic
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pertaining to the beautiful
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Pathos
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Quality evoking compassion or pity
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Alacrity
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cheerful willingness or eagerness: speed
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Alleviate
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to make more bearable: to lesson
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Altercation
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To quarrel
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Ameliorate
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to make better
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Amity
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peaceful relations; freindship
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August
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Majestic
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Apathy
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Indifference, lack of feeling or interest
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Appease
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To pacify or Soothe
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Wrath
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Anger
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Metonymy
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Substitution of a name with that of another associated with it
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Consecrate
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to set something apart as sacred
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Omnipotent
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All-powerful
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Timorous
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Fearful or Apprehensive
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Mitigate
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to moderate, soften or lessen
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Chide
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to scold
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Servile
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Humbly yielding or Submissive
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Sanguine
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Cheerful or Hopeful
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Loquacious
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Talkative
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Incessant
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Without pause
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Penury
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Poverty
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Prudence
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Caution Discretion
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Cache
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Hiding Place
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Didactic
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Teaches a specific lesson or moral
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Antipathy
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Strong Dislike
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Candid
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Frank Straight-Forward
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Clemency
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Mercy
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Guile
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Deception
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Diabolical
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Devilish
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Furtive
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Secretive
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Acquiesce
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to Comply or Yield
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Pejorative
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Disparaging or Derogatory
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Castigate
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to Punish or Rebuke
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Iniquity
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Sin
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Arbitrary
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Depending on Individual or even Random Discretion: not fixed in Law
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Arid
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Dry
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Rhetoric
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the art of Persuassion
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Articulate
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Capable of bing a good speaker
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Ascetic
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Self-Denying
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Assiduous
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Diligent
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Assuage
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To make less Buerdensome, to clam, to alleviate
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Astute
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Shrewd
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Augment
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to Increase
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Austere
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stern and severe
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Avarice
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Greed
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Obstinate
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Stubborn
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Parsimomious
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Stingy, Cheap
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Ostentatious
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Showy, Flaunting
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Propietor
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owner of a buisiness
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Mendicant
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Beggar
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Visage
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Facial Expression
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Paradox
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a Self-Contradictory statement or situation
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Ambiguous
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Vague: Having two or more Interpretations
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Usury
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the Lending of the Money at an Exorbitant rate of interest
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Arduous
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difficult
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Munificent
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Generous
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Importunante
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insistent
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Anomalous
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abnormal
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Aversion
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intense Dislike
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Capricious
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Characterized by the sudden change; fickle
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Veracious
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truthful
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Deferential
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marked by courteous respect
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Ominous
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being an omen of evil
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Tangible
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capable of being touched
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Abode
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home or dwelling place
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Querulous
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complaining
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Endeavor
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effort
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Expedite
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to speed the process of
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Percarious
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Dangerouly lacking in security or stability
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Ennui
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boredom
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Superfluous
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extra
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Inevitable
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unavoidable
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Prowess
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exceptional skill
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Paean
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song of praise
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Bucolic
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pertaining to the countryside
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Altruism
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selflessness
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Destitute
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poverty-stricken
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Ravenous
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extremely hungry
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Frugal
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thrifty
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Averse
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reluctant
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Banal
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lacking originality; trite
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Benign
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kindly
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Bibliophile
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lover of books
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Bland
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mild
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