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67 Cards in this Set
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Trepidation
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Anxiety
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Aberration
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Something strange
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Cajole
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To coax
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Reverent
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Respectful
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Spurn
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To reject
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Submissive
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Obedient
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Inscrutable
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Puzzling
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Enervate
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To weaken
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Indict
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To explain
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Officious
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Interfering
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Preclude
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To prevent
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Fallacious
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Mistaken
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Guile
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Trickery
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Impassive
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Showing no emotion
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Catharsis
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An emotional release
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Circumspect
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Cautious
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Deference
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Giving in
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Spurious
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Counterfeit
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Trite
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Commonplace
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Colloquial
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Informal
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Discerning
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Perceptive
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Prerogative
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A special right
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Resolution
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Determination
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Ameliorate
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To improve
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Assent
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To agree
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Capricious
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Unpredictable
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Tacit
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Understood though unspoken
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Potent
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Powerful
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Hypocrisy
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Insincerity
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Incisive
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Sharp
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Surmise
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To suppose
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Sporific
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Causing drowsiness
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Unimpeachable
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Faultless
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Prodigious
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Huge
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Recalcitrant
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Disobedient
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Resigned
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Accepting
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Abstruse
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Difficult to understand
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Anomaly
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A peculiarity
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Astute
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Perceptive
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Aversion
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Strong dislike
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Abstemious
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Self-denying
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Ambivalence
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Mixed feelings
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Archaic
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Old-fashioned
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Arduous
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Strenuous
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Ascetic
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Self-denying
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Fervor
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Intense emotion
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Lassitude
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Fatigue
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Paradigm
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A model
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Didactic
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Intended to teach
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Eclectic
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Varied
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Engender
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To produce
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Equanimity
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Calmness
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Convivial
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Sociable
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Credulous
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Easily convinced
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Deprecate
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To express disapproval of
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Nefarious
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Wicked
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Profusion
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A rich supply
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Servile
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Humbly obedient
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Iconoclast
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A rebel
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Incipient
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Beginning
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Intractable
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Hard to control
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Laudable
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Deserving praise
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Listless
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Lonely
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Diminutive
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Tiny
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Erudite
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Knowlegeable
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Extraneous
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Not essential
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Gratuitious
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Uncalled for
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