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61 Cards in this Set
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to promote trouble or rebellion, instigate, incite, stir up
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foment
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frightful, horrible, ghastly, gruesome, gory, hideous
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grisly
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mighty, powerful, arduous, onerous,, colossal
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herculean
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emotionless, stoical, unemotional, insensible, inanimale
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impassive
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unfavorable, unlucky, unpropitious, unpromising, untimely
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inauspicious
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unquestionable, incontestable, undisputable, indubitable
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incontrovertible
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puzzled, perplexed, baffled, stumped, flabbergasted
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nonplussed
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sutable or convenient, timely, appropriate, felicitous
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oppertune
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abundant, profuse, fruitful, fecund, proliferous
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prolific
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a reply to a reply, answer, reply, response, riposte, retort
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rejoinder
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firm in purpose or opinion, unyeilding, implacable, inflexable
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adament
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furor, hullabaloo, tumult, pandemonium
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brouhaha
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stronghold, citadel, bastion, rampart
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bulwark
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stimulate, whet, spoil, glut, satiate, surfeit
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cloy
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cut short, limit, abbreviate, abridge, contract
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curtail
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respect, consideration, courtsey
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deference
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conclusive, final, exhaustive, authoritative
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definitive
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conduct, behavior, bearing, carriage
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demeanor
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puzzling, perplexing, inexplicable, naffling, mysterious
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enigmatic
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spontaneous, improvised, unrehearsed
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impromptu
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sentimentalized, maudlin, mushy, nauseating
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mawkish
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to soften, make gentle, pacify, to calm, allay, assuage, placate
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mollify
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something that is heavy or burdensome, a stigma, blame, duty, stigma
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onus
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foreboading, premonition, hunch, a vauge sence of approaching misfortune
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presentiment
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prodigal, improvident, spendthrift, immoral, self-indulgening
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prolifigate
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irascible, testy, splenetic, bilious
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choleric
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pay, absolve, subside, abate
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remit
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required, obligatory, incumbant
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requisite
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of or pertaining to a talor or his work
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sartorial
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foil, baffle, oppose sucessfully, prevent, frustrate
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thwart
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scold, chide, rebuke, reprove, reprimand
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berate
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willing to follow advice, tractable, submissive, responsive, agreeable, compliant, docile
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amenable
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butchery, bloodbath, massacre
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carnage
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gullible, easily decieved, too ready to believe
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credulous
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a rule, test, standard for judgement ot evaluation, yardstick, touchstone, gauge, canon
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criterion
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exhaust, empty, drain, bankrupt, diminish
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deplete
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elaborate, enlarge, descant, wander, roam
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expatiate
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incidental, extrinsic, foregin, irrelevant
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extraneous
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the beginning, start, commencement, inauguration, outset
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inception
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weakness, aliment, affliction, malady, defect
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infirmity
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vapid, insipid, puerile, childish
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jejune
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stuborn, unyeilding, obstinate, adamant
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obdurate
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hodgepodge, melange, farrago, medly
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potpourri
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foward, gifted, advanced
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precocious
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brutal,vicious, inhumane, fiendish
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sadistic
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aphoristic, epigrammatic. moralistic, pithy
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sententious
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plead, petition, implore, entreat
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supplicate
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excess, glut, satiate, cloy
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surfeit
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circuitous, serpentine, labyrinthine, twisted, complex
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tortuous
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inflated, pompous, bombastic, overblown
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turgid
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scold, chide, rebuke, reprove, reprimand
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berate
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willing to follow advice, tractable, submissive, responsive, agreeable, compliant, docile
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amenable
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butchery, bloodbath, massacre
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carnage
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gullible, easily decieved, too ready to believe
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credulous
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a rule, test, standard for judgement ot evaluation, yardstick, touchstone, gauge, canon
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criterion
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exhaust, empty, drain, bankrupt, diminish
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deplete
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elaborate, enlarge, descant, wander, roam
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expatiate
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incidental, extrinsic, foregin, irrelevant
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extraneous
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the beginning, start, commencement, inauguration, outset
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inception
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weakness, aliment, affliction, malady, defect
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infirmity
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