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15 Cards in this Set
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salutary
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promoting health, healthful, designed to effect improvement
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sanguine
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optimistic
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superfluous
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being beyond what is required or sufficient
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taciturn
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habitually not talkative
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umbrage
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resentment
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urbane
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polite, refined or elegant in manner
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vanquish
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to defeat or conquer; to be victorious over
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veracity
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adherence to the truth; truthfulness
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zenith
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the point of culmination, the peak
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abscond
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to leave quickly and secretly
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burgeon
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to sprout or flourish
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cumbersome
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burdensome, heavy and awkward to carry
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deprecate
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to express disapproval of
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ephemeral
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lasting for a brief time
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inane
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one that lacks sense or substance
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