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99 Cards in this Set
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Precipitate
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Act Quickly
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Recondite
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Difficult to understand
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Limpid
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Easy to understand
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Calumny
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Criticize/Criticism
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Excoriate
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Criticize/Criticism
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Inveigh
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Criticize/Criticism
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Lambaste
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Criticize/Criticism
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Obloquy
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Criticize/Criticism
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Pillory
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Criticize/Criticism
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Vituperate
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Criticize/Criticism
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Libidinous
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Carousal
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Salacious
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Carousal
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Prevaricate
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Falsehood
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Perfidy
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Falsehood
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Acerbic
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Biting (In Wit)
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Asperity
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Biting (In Wit)
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Encomium
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Praise
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Inimical
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Harmful
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Minatory
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Harmful
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Recreant
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Timid/Timidity
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Fatuous
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Boring
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Banal
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Boring
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Quotidian
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Boring
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Prosaic
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Boring
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Obviate
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Weaken
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Stultify
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Weaken
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Antithetic
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Hostile
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Obdurate
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Stubborn
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Refractory
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Stubborn
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Renitent
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Stubborn
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Callow
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Beginning/Young
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Inchoate
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Beginning/Young
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Incipient
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Beginning/Young
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Rapacious
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Greedy
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Venal
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Greedy
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Compendious
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Terse
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Laconic
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Terse
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Garrulous
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Overblown/Wordy
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Periphrastic
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Overblown/Wordy
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Peremptory
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Dictatorial
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Antipathy
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Hatred
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Odium
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Hatred
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Lackadaisical
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Lazy/Sluggish
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Lassitude
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Lazy/Sluggish
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Phlegmatic
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Lazy/Sluggish
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Torpid
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Lazy/Sluggish
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Assuage
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Pacify/ Satisfy
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Expiate
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Forgive
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Esurient
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Poor
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Tendentious
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Favoring/ Not Impartial
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Abnegate
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Denying of Self
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Peripatetic
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Walking about
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Fulsome
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Insincere
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Unctuous
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Insincere
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Forfend
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Prevent/Obstruct
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Occlude
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Prevent/Obstruct
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Anachronism
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Eccentric/Dissimilar
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Facetious
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Funny/Flippant
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Disconsolate
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Sorrow / Without consolation or comfort; unhappy.
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Elegiac
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Sorrow
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Lugubrious
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Sorrow
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Threnody
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Sorrow, A lament for the dead.
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Invidious
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Disgusting/Offensive
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Rebarbative
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Disgusting/Offensive
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Recidivism
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Withdrawal/Retreat
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Knell
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Death/Mourning; The sound of a bell rung in death or mourning.
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Vicarious
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Experienced in the imagination through the feelings or actions of another person.
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Paradigm
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Copy; A set of forms all of which contain a particular element.
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Expatiate
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Speak or write at length or in detail.
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Peregrination
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To travel especially on foot.
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Peripatetic
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Related to Walking
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Aperture
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A hole or opening in something
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Interstice
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a space that intervenes between things; especially : one between closely spaced things
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Salubrious
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favorable to or promoting health or well-being
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Apothegm
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Proverb
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Bromide
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A common statement
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Sententious
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given to or abounding in aphoristic expression
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Consanguine
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Same Blood.
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Distaff
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Female branch of the family.
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Carom
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A rebounding item ... not on a straight course.
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Bilious
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of or indicative of a peevish ill-natured disposition
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dudgeon
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a fit or state of indignation
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Querulous
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Habitually complaining
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Umbrage
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Shade; a feeling of pique or resentment at some often fancied slight or insult
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Chagrin
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distress of mind caused by humiliation, disappointment, or failure
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Gaucherie
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A tactless or awkward act.
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Compunction
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Anxiety arising from guilt.
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Diffident
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Hesitant because of lack of confidence.
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Expiate
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to extinguish Guilt
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Asperity
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Roughness
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Fell
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Cruel or sinister.
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Truculent
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feeling or displaying ferocity
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Vituperation
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sustained and bitter railing and condemnation
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Cavil
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to raise trivial and frivolous objection
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Martinet
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A Strict Disciplinarian
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Fey
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Able to see the future
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adventitious
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coming from another source and not inherent or innate
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kismet
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Fate
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Strident
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characterized by harsh, insistent, and discordant sound
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