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47 Cards in this Set
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Ingenuous
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artless; frank and candid; lacking in sophistication
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Inured
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Accustomed to accepting something undesirable
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irascible
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Easily angered; prone to tempermental out bursts
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Laud
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To praise highly
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Lucid
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Clear; easily understood
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Magnanimity
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The quality of being generously noble in mind and heart, esp. in forgiving
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Martial
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Associated with war and the armed forces
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Mundane
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Of the world; typical of or concerned with the ordinary
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Nascent
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Coming into being; in early developmental stages
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Nebulous
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Vague; cloudy; lacking clearly defined form
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Neologism
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a new word, expression, or usage; the creation or use of new words or senses
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Noxious
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Harmful; injurious
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Obtuse
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Lacking shrpness of intellect; not clear or precise in thought or expression
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Obviate
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To anticipate and make unnecessary
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Onerous
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Troubling; burdensome
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Paen
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A song or hymn of praise and thanksgiving
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Parody
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A humorous imitation intended for ridicule or comic effect, esp. in literature and art
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Perennial
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Recurrent throught the year or many years; happening repeatedly
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Perfidy
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Intentional breach of faith; treachery
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Perfunctory
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Cursory; done wihtout care or interest
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Perspicacious
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Acutely perceptive; having keen discernment
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Prattle
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To babble meantinglessly; to talk in an empty and idle manner
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Precipitate (adj)
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Acting with excessive haste or impulse
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Precipitate (verb)
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to cause or happen before anticipated or required
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predilection
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a disposition in favor of something ; preference
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Prescience
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Foreknowledge of events; knowing of events prior to their occurring
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Prevaricate
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To deliberately avoid the truty; to mislead
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Qualms
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Misgivings; reservations; causes for hesitancy
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Recant
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To retract, esp. a previously held belief
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Refute
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To disprove; to successfully argue against
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Relegate
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To forcibly assign, esp. to a lower place or poisition
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Reticent
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quiet; reserved; reluctant ot express thoughts and feelings
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Solicitous
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Concerned and attentive; eager
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Sordid
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Characterized by filth, grime, or squalor; foul
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Sporadic
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Occurring only occasionally, or in scattered instances
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Squander
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To waste by spending or using irresponsibly
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Static
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Not moving, acitvek or in motionp; at rest
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Stupefy
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To stun, baffle, or amaze
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Stymie
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To block; thrwart
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Synthesis
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The combination of parts to make a whole
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Torque
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A force that causes rotation
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Tortuous
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Winding;twisting; excessively complicated
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Truculent
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Fierce and cruel; eager to fight
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Veracity
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Truthfulness; honesty
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Virulent
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Extremely hharmful or poisonous;bitterly hostile or antagonistic
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Voracious
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having an insatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit; ravenous
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Waver
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To move to and fro; to sway; to be unsettled in opinion
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