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79 Cards in this Set
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abbreviated Communication
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abridge, compendium, cursory, syllabus, synopsis, terse
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syllabus
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Act Quickly
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apace, abrupt, headlong, impetuous, precipitate
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abrupt
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Assist
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abet, advocate, ancillary, bolster, corroborate, countenance, espouse, mainstay, munificent, proponent, stalwart, sustenance
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countenance
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Bad Mood
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bilious, dudgeon, irascible, pettish, petulant, pique, querulous, umbrage, waspish
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petulant
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Beginner
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dilettante, fledgling, neophyte, novitiate, poselyte, tyro
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ameteur
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Beginning
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burgeoning, callow, engender, inchoate, incipient, nascent
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young
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Biting
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acerbic, acidulous, acrimonious, asperity, caustic, mordacious, mordant, trenchant
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temperament
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Bold
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audacious, courageous, dauntless
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courageous
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Boring
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banal,fatuous,hackneyed,insipid,mundane,pedestrian,platitude,prosaic,quotidian, trite
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banal
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Carousal
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bacchanalian, debauchery, deprave,iniquity,libertine,libidinous,licentious,reprobate,ribald,slacious,sordid,turpitude
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sordid
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Changing Quickly
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capricious, mercurial, volatile
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volatile
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Copy
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counterpart,emulate,facsimilefactitious,paradigm,precursor,quintessence,simulated,vicarious
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facsimile
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Criticize
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aspersion,belittle,berate, calumny,castigate,decry,defamation,denounce,deride,diatribe,disparage,escoriate,gainsay
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inveigh, obloquy, opprobrium, remonstrate, vituperate
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Death/Mourning
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bereave,cadaver,defunct,demise,dolorous,elegy,knell,lament,macabre,moribundkobesequies,sepulchral,wrath
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knell
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Denying of Self
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abnegate, abstain, ascetic, spartan, stoic, temperate
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abstain
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Dictatorial
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authoritarian, depsotic, dogmatic, hegemonic, imperious, peremptory, tyrannical
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tyrannical
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Difficult to Understand
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abstruse, ambiguous, arcane, bemusing, cryptic, enigmatic, esoteric, inscrutable, obscure, opaque, paradoxical, perplexing, recondite
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turbid
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Disgusting/Offensive
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defile, fetid, invidious, noisome, odious, putrid, rebarbative
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fetid
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Easy to understand
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articulate, cogent, eloquent, evident, limpid, lucid, pellucid
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cogent
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Eccentric/Dissimilar
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aberrant, anachronism, anomalouw, iconoclast, discrete, eclectic, esoteric
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eclectic
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Embarrass
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abash, chagrin, compunction, contrition, diffidence, expiate, foible, gaucherie, rue
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chagrin
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Equal
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equitable, equity, tantamount
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same
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Falsehood
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apocryphal, canard, chicanery, dissemble, duplicity, equivocate, erroneous, ersatz, fallacious
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feigned, guile, mendacious, perfidy, prevaricate, specious, spurious
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Family
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conjugal, consanguine, distaff, endogamous, filial, fratricide, progenitor, scion
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scion
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Favoring
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ardor, doctrinaire, fervid, partisan, tendentious, zealot
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not impartial
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Forgive
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absolve, acquit, exculpate, exonerate, expiate, palliate, redress, vindicate
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absolve
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Funny
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chortle, droll, facetious, flippant, gibe, jocular, levity, ludicrous, raillery, riposte, simper
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chortle
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Gaps
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abatement, aperture, fissure, hiatus, interregnum, interstice, lull, orifice, rent, respite, rift
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Openings
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Generous
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altruistic, beneficient, clement, largess, magnanimous, munificent, philanthropic, unstinting
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beneficent
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Greedy
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avaricious, covetous, mercenary, miserly, penurious, rapacious, venal
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covetous
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Hardhearted
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asperity, baleful, dour, fell, malevolent, mordant, sardonic, sdathing, truculent, vitriolic, vituperation
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sardonic
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Harmful
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baleful,baneful,deleterious, inmical, injurious, insidious, minatory, perfidious, pernicious
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baneful
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Harsh-Sounding
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cacophony, din, dissonant, raucous, strident
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cacophony
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Hatred
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abhorrence,anathema,antagonism,antipathy,detestation,enmity,loathing,malice,odium,rancor
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abhorrence
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Healthy
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beneficial, salubrious, salutary
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Hesitate
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dither, oscillate,teeter,vacillate,waver
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dither
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Hostile
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antithetic,churlish,curmudgeon,irascible,malevolent,misanthropic, truculent,vindictive
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curmudgeon
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Innocent
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credulous, gullible, ingenious, naive, novitiate, tyro
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tyro
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Insincere
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disingenuous, dissemble, fulsome, ostensible, unctuous
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ostensible
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Investigate
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appraise, ascertain, assay, descry, peruse
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peruse
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Lazy
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indolent,inert,lackadaisical, languid,lassitude,lethargic, phlegmatic,quiescent, slothful, torpid
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sluggish
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Luck
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aventitious,amulet,auspicious,fortuitous,kismet,optimum,portentous,propitiate, propitious, providential
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talisman
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Nag
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admonish,cavil,belabor,enjoin,exhort,harangue,hector,martinet,remonstrate,reproof
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admonish
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Nasty
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fetid, noisome, noxious
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Not a Straight Line
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askance,awry,careen,carom,circuitous,circumvent,gyrate,labyrinth, meander,oblique, serrated, sidle, sinious, undulating, vortex
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Overblown
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bombastic,circumlocution,garrulous,grandiloquent,loquacious,prolix,rhetoric,turgid,verbose
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wordy
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Pacify
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ameliorate, appease,assuage,defer.mitigate,mollify,placate,propitiate,satiate,slake,sooth
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Satisfy
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Pleasant-Sounding
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euphonious,harmonious,melodious,sonprous
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Poor
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destitute, esurient,impecunious, indigent
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Praise
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acclaim,accolade,aggrandize,encomium,eulogize,extol,fawn, laud/laudatory, venerate/veneration
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Predict
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augur,auspice,fey,harbinger, portentous,presage,prescient,prognosticate
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Prevent
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discomfort,encumber,fetter, forfend,hinder,impede, inhibit,occlude
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obstruct
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Smart
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astute, canny, erudite, perspicacious
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learned
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Sorrow
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disconsolate, doleful, dolor, elegiac, forlorn, lament, lugubrious, melancholy, morose, plaintive, threnody
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Stubborn
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implacable,inexorable,intractable,intransigent,obdurate,obstinate,recalcitrant,refractory,renitent,untoward,vexing
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Terse
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compendious, curt, laconic, pithy, succinct, tacitum
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Time
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anachronism,antecede, antedate,anterior,archaic, diurnal,eon,ephermal,epoch,fortnight,millenium,penultimate
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synchronous, temporal, timidity
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Truth
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candor, candid, fealty, frankness, indisputable,indubitable, legitimate, probity, sincere
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veracious, verity
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unusual
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aberration, anomaly, iconoclast, idiosyncrasy
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Walking About
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ambulatory, itinerant, peripatetic
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Wandering
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discursive, expatiate, forage, itinerant, peregrination, per5ipatetic, sojourn
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Weaken
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adulterate, enervate, exacerbate, inhibit, obviate, stultify, undermine, vitiate
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Wisdom
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adage, aphorism, apothegm, axiom, bromide, dictum, epigram, platitude, sententious, truism
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Withdrawal
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abeyance,abjure,abnegation,abortive,abrogate,decamp,demur,recant,recidivism,remission,renege,rescind,retrograde
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retreat
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Predict
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augur, auspice, fey, harbinger, portentous, presage, prescient, prognosticate
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Prevent
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discomfort, encumber, fetter, forfend, hinder, impde, inhibit, occlude
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Obstruct
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Smart
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astute, canny, erudite, perspicacious
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Learned
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Sorrow
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disconsolate,doleful,dolor,elagiac, forlorn, lament, lugubrious, melancholy, morose, plaintive, threnody
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Stubborn
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implacable, intransigent, obdurate, obstinate, recalcitrant, refractory, renitent, untoward, vexing
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Terse
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compendious, curt, laconic, pithy, succinct, taciturn
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Time/Order/Duration
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anachronism, antecede, antedate, anterior, archaic, diurnal, eon, ephemeral, epoch, fortnight, millenium, penultimate, synchronous, temporal
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Timid/Timidity
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craven, diffident, pusillanimous, recreant, timorous, trepidation
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Truth
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candor, fealty, frankness, indisputable, indubitable, legitimate, probity, sincere, veracious, verity
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Unusual
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aberration, anomaly, iconoclast, idiosyncrasy
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Walking About
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ambulatory, itinerant, peripatetic
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Wandering
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discrusive, expatiate, forage, itinerant, peregrination, peripatetic, sojourn
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Weaken
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adulterate, enervate, exacerbate, inhibit, obviate, stultify, undermine, vitiate
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Wisdom
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adage,aphorism, apothegm, axiom, bromide, dictum, epigram, platitude, sententious, truism
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Withdrawal
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abeyance,abjure,abnegation, abortive,abrogate,decamp, demur,recant,recidivism,remission,renege,rescind,retrograde
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