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25 Cards in this Set
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Acrid
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Having an irritatingly strong unpleasant taste or smell; pungent
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Animosity
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Strong hostility
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Buoyancy
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Resilience of spirit
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Consternation
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Feeling of anxiety or dismay, especially at something unexpected: amazement/ confusion
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Diffidence
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Timidity or shyness
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Dissipate
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To break up; to squander
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Dogmatic
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A strong set of principles based on faith or morals
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Duplicity
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Deceitfulness or duplicitous |
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Encroach
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To intrude on; to invade
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Extirpate
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To root out; to completely destroy
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Fastidious
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Overly difficult to please
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Fulminate
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To condemn severely
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Ghastly
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Causing greatly horror or fear; macabre
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Indefatigable
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Persistent and unwavering
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Indolent
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Slow to develop or heal; lazy
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Opprobrium
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Harsh criticism/censure
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Penurious
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Stingy; cheap
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Perfidious
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Treacherous; disloyal/unfaithful
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Sardonic
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Disdainfully humorous or mocking
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Splendid
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Shining; brilliant; glorious
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Supercilious
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Haughtily contemptuous arrogant
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Trepidation
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Hesitation caused by fear
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Tumult
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A loud confusion of noise especially caused by a group of people
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Uncanny
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Strange; mysterious; bizarre
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Vitality
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The state of being strong and active; vigor/drive
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