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52 Cards in this Set
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credulity
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gullibility, tendnecy to be too ready to believe something is real
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affable
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friendly good natured or easy to talk to
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irascible
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easily made angry, arising from anger, irritable
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petulance
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irritability, an irritable petulant feeling
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petulant
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childish, bad tempered,
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disdainful
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showing disrepect, lack of respect , feeling content
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nonchalance
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trait of remaining calm and seeming not to care
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fervor
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intense and passionate feeling, zeal,
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disparage
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regard or represent as being of little worth, depreciate
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eclectic
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deriving ideas, style, taste from a broad and diverse range of sources
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perfunctory
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superfical, carried out with a min. of effort or reflection
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solicitous
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characterized by or showing interest or concern, eager
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bombastic
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lofty in style, inflated,
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soporific
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tending to induce drowsiness or sleep, drug or other agent of this kind,
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meribound
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of a person at the point of death, thing in a terminal decline, lacking vigor or vitality
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irresolute
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indecisive, hesitant, undecided, undetermined
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connive
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secretly allow something immoral or illegal to occur, conspire to do something bad
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destitute
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needy, poor, without having basic necsesisities
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proverbial
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referred to in a proverb, well known
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curio
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rare, unusual , intriguing object
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zealot
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person who is fanatical and uncompromising in pursuit of religious political or other ideals, bigot
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glutton
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excesively greedy eater, fond for adventure
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denouement
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final part of play, movie, narrative which plot are drawn together and matters are resulved climax of chain of events
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foundering
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fill with water and sink, fail or break down, set back
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adversity
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misfortune, disaster, dfifculties, misfortune
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plebiscite
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direct vote of all members of an electorate
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felicitous
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well chosen or suited to the circumstances, pleasing and fortunate
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grandiloquent
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bombastic, pompous, extravagant in language, style or manner, intending to impress
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recidivist
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convicted criminal who reoffends, repeatedly
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truculent
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eager or quick to argue or fight
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mononastic
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a monk or other follower of monaastic rule, relating to munks or nuns
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vernacular
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language or dialect spoken by oridnary people in a country, mother tongue, native
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ephemeral
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lasting for very short time, ,transient
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felicitous
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well chosen, pleasing and fortunate
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deprecated
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express disapproval
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prose
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written or spoken language in its ordinary form
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terse
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sparing in use of words, abrupt, short
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discursive
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digressing from subject to subject, covering wide felid of subjects, rambling
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florid
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elaborate, having a red or flusehd complexion, complicated
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pithy
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concise and forcefully expressive,
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loath
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unwilling, reluctant,
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vaunted
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boast or praise something, excessively
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candor
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quality f being open and honest in expression
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disquiet
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feeling anxiety or worry, anxious
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satiric
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sarcastic,critical
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elegiac
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doleful,having a mournful quality
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didactic
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intended to teach, manner of a teacher, instructive
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avarice
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extreme greed or wealth of material gain,
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craven
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cowardly, lacking courage
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laggard
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slower than expected
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reticent
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not revealing ones htoughts or feelings readily, silent
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sanguine
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cheerfully optimistic, blood red color
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