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15 Cards in this Set
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Alacrity
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Eager willingness to do something
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Prosaic
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Dull and lacking imagination (think prose is the opposite of poetry, aka boring, like textbooks)
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Veracity
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Truthful
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Paucity
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A lack of something; only having a little
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Maintain
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To assert (second definition of the word)
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Contrite
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To feel remorse
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Laconic
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Using very few words
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Pugnacious
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Likes to aggressively argue about everything (like a pug dog yaps at anything near it)
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Disparate
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Fundamentally different
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Egregious
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Standing out in a bad way
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Profuse
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Something that pours out In abundance
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Contentious
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Likes to argue (comes from contend)
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Auspicious
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Favorable
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Ambivalent
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Having mixed feelings about something
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Sedulous
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Being diligent and careful
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