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30 Cards in this Set
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Desiccate
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Dehydrated
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Diaphanous
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Very sheer, fine
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Didactic
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Teaching
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Digress
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Go off topic
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Dilettante
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Person who takes up an activity for amusement in a superficial way
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Diminutive
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extremely small in size; suffix that indicates smallness
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Discomfiting
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Disconcerting, frustrating
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Discreet
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Modest, Prudent, Unnoticeable
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Discrete
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Separate from each another, non-continuous
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Disingenuous
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Not genuine
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Dissipate
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to cause to separate and go in different directions; spend frivolously and unwisely
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Dissolution
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Dissolving, Breaking bonds, Death, Degradation
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Distaff
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Female, women's work, staff holding wool
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Dither
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Act Indecisively, fearful or trembling
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Dolorous
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causing, marked by, or expressing misery or grief
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Duplicitous
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Deceit, Double Dealing
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Duplicity
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deliberate deceptiveness in behavior or speech; double-dealing
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Ebullient
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Very enthusiastic, lively
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Eclectic
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Selecting the best
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Efficacy
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Ability to produce intended effect
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Egalitarian
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Belief in quality of people
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Empirical
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a philosophy of using observations to gain knowledge
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Ephemeral
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lasting a short time
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Epicure
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Person with cultivated taste
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Equitable
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fair to all parties as dictated by reason and conscience
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Erstwhile
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Former, previous
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Eschew
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Shun
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Esoteric
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Understood by a few
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Estimable
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Admirable
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Ethereal
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Delicate, heavenly, intangible
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