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60 Cards in this Set
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baleful
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harmful
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minatory
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menacing or threatening nature
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pernicious
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tending to cause harm or death
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pusillanimous
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cowardly
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recreant
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unfaithful or disloyal, craven
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timorous
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timid
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trepidation
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state of alarm, dread
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inexorable
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not capable of persuasion
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intransigent
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refusing to change position, uncompromising
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obdurate
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hardened in wrongdoing, stubbornly impenitent
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pertinacious
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stubbornly persistent
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perverse
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directed away from what is right and good
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recalcitrant
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stubborn resistance
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refractory
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obstinately resistant to authority or control
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renitent
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not pliant
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untoward
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not favorable, unruly
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callow
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immature
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engender
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give rise to
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incipient
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beginning
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nascent
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emerging, coming into existence
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bombastic
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grandiloquent
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circumlocution
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wordy, roundabout language
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garrulous
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excessive trivial talk
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grandiloquent
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pompous speech
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loquacious
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very talkative
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periphrastic
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roundabout language
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prolix
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tediously prolonged, wordy
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turgid
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grandiloquent, ornate complex language
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antithetic
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opposition, direct contrast, antithesis
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churlish
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boorish
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curmudgeon
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ill tempered person, full of resentment and stubborn
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truculent
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disposed to fighting, pugnacious;
scathing |
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insipid
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not tasty, dull
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hackneyed
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over familiar through overuse
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pedestrian
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ordinary
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prosaic
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consisting of prose, ordinary speach or writing
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quotidian
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everyday, commonplace
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terse
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brief, to the point
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compendious
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succinct
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curt
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rudely brief or abrupt
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laconic
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concise
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pithy
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precisely meaningful, forceful and brief
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credulous
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gullible
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taciturn
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habitually untalkative
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novitiate
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novice
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tyro
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beginner to learn
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abet
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help
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ancillary
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of secondary importance;
auxillary, helping |
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countenance
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face;
support, approval |
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mainstay
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a chief support
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munificent
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generous
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sustenance
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act of sustained, supporting life, support
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avaricious
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greedy
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covetous
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jealous
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mercenary
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greedy, paid soldier
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miserly
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one who lives meagerly to hoard money;
greedy |
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penurious
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stingy
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venal
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capable of betraying honor for price, corruptable
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propitiate
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appease
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slake
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to satisfy
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