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68 Cards in this Set
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Amalgamate
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to combine; to mix together
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Banal
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predictable; boring; cliche
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Capricious
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changing one's mind quickly and often
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caustic
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biting in wit
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dessicate
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to dry out
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desultory
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jumping from one thing to another; disconnected
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diffident
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lacking self-confidence
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dilettante
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someone with an ameteurish and superficial interested in a topic
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dissemble
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to present a false appearance; to disguise one's real intentions or character
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estimable
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admirable
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exigent
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urgent; requiring immediate action
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garrulous
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tending to talk a lot
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impetuous
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quick to act without thinking
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implacable
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unable to be calmed down
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incohate
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not fully formed
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inimical
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hostile; unfriendly
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insipid
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lacking interest or flavor
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intransigent
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uncompromising; refusing to be reconciled
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irascible
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easily made angry
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laconic
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using few words
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loquacious
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talkative
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malinger
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to evade responsibility by pretending to be ill
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obdurate
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hardened in feeling; resistant to persuasion
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obsequious
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overly submissive and eager to please
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obviate
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to prevent; to make unnecessary
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occlude
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to stop up; to prevent the passage of
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opprobrium
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public disgrace
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pedant
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someone who shows off learning
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perfidious
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willing to betray one's trust
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perfunctory
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done in a routine way; indifferent
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propitiate
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to conciliate; to appease
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quiescent
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motionless
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rarefy
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to make thinner or sparser
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reticent
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silent, reserved
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soporific
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causing sleep or lethargy
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stolid
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unemotional; lacking sensitivity
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torpor
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extreme mental and physical sluggishness
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ambrosial
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extremely pleasing to the senses, divine (as related to the gods) or delicious (n: ambrosia)
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aver
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to declare
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blandishment
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speech or action intended to coax someone into doing something
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bombast
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pompous speech
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conflagration
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a great fire
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craven
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cowardly
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depredation
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the act of preying on
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descry
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to make clear, to say
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effluent
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the quality of flowing out; something that flows out
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emollient
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softening; something that softens
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encomium
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a formal eulogy or speech of praise
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enervate
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to weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of
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extant
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in existence; still existing
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gossamer
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fine cobweb on foliage; fine gauzy fabric; very fine
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impecunious
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penniless; poor
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improvidence
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an absence of foresight; a failure to provide for future needs or events
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indelible
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permanent; unerasable; strong
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irascible
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prone to outbursts; easily angered
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lugubrious
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weighty; mournful; gloomy (especially to an excessive degree)
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noisome
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harmful; offensive; destructive
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panegyric
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a writing or speech in praise of a person or thing
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perfidious
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deliberately treacherous; dishonest
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petulant
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easily or frequently annoyed, especially over trivial matters; childishly irritable
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phlegmatic
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not easily excited; cool; sluggish
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prevaricate
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to stray away from or evade the truth
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prodigal
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rashly wasteful
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pusillanimous
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cowardly, timid, or irreselute; petty
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quiescence
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inactivity; stillness; dormancy (adj: quiescent)
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saturnine
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having a gloomy or morose temperament
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turpitude
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depravity; baseness
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tyro
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beginner; person lacking experience in a specific endeavor
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