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15 Cards in this Set
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Jettison
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to discard, to throw overboard
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Loquacious
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tending to talk too much or too freely
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Lax
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not strict or severe; careless or negligent
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Largess
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generous giving
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Mundane
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ordinary; commonplace
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Nonchalant
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calm, casual, seeming unexcited
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Novice
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apprentice; beginner
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Obsequious
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showing servile complaisance or deference, fawning
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Ostracize
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to exclude by general consent from society
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Ostentatious
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showy, displaying wealth
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Paradigm
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an example serving as a model; pattern, a set of forms all of which contain a particular element
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Parched
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dried up; shriveled
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Perfidious
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faithless, disloyal, trustworthy
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Pragmatic
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practical
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Precipitous
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extremely or impassably steep, precarious
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