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65 Cards in this Set
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Abbreviated Communication
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Abridge
Compendium Cursory Curtail Syllabus Synopsis Terse |
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Act Quickly
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Apace
Abrupt Headlong Impetuous Precipitate |
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Assist
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Abet
Advocate Ancillary Bolster Corroborate Countenance Espouse Mainstay Munificent Proponent Salwart Sustenance |
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Bad Mood
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Bilious
Dudgeon Irascible Pettish Petulant Pique Querulous Umbrage Waspish |
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Beginner/Amateur
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Dilettante
Fledgling Neophyte Novitiate Proelyte Tyro |
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Beginning/Young
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Burgeoning
Callow Engender Inchoate Incipient Nascent |
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Biting (Wit/Temperament)
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Acerbic
Acidulous Acrimonious Asperity Caustic Mordacious Mordant Trenchant |
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Bold
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Audacious
Courageous Dauntless |
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Boring
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Banal
Fatuous Hackneyed Insipid Mundane Pedestrian Platitude Prosaic Quotidian Trite |
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Carousal (Drunken Party, Immoral, Evil...)
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Bacchanalian
Debauchery Depraved Dissipated Iniquity Libertine Libidinous Licentious Reprobate Ribald Salacious Sordid Turpitude |
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Changing Quickly
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Capricious
Mercurial Volatile |
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Copy
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Counterpart
Emulate Facsimile Factitious Paradigm Precursor Quintessence Simulated Vicarious |
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Criticize/Criticism
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Aspersion--Belittle--Berate--Calumny
Castigate--Decry--Defamation--Denounce Deride--Diatribe--Disparage--Excoriate Gainsay--Harangue--Impugn--Inveigh--Lambaste Objurgate--Obloquy--Opprobrium--Pillory Rebuke--Remonstrate--Reprehend Reprove--Revile--Tirade--Vituperate |
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Death/Mourning
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Bereave
Cadaver Defunct Demise Dolorous Elegy Knell Lament Macabre Moribund Obsequies Sepulchral Wraith |
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Denying of Self
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Abnegate
Abstain Ascetic Spartan Stoic Temperate |
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Dictatorial
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Authoritarian
Despotic Dogmatic Hegemonic Imperious Peremptory Tyrannical |
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Difficult to Understand
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Abstruse
Ambiguous Arcane Bemusing Crytpic Enigmatic Esoteric Inscrutable Obscure Opaque Paradoxical Perplexing Recondite Turbid |
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Disgusting/Offensive
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Defile
Fetid Invidious Noisome Odious Putrid Rebarbative |
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Easy to Understand
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Articulate
Cogent Eloquent Evident Limpid Lucid Pellucid |
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Eccentric/Dissimilar
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Aberrant
Anachronism Anamalous Iconoclast Discrete Eclectic Esoteric |
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Embarrass
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Abash
Chagrin Compunction Contrition Diffidence Expiate Foible Gauncherie Rue |
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Equal
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Equitable
Equity Tantamount |
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Falsehood
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Apocryphal
Canard Chicanery Dissemble Duplicity Equivocate Erroneous Erstaz Fallacious Feigned Guile Mendacious/Mendacity Perfidy Prevaricate Specious Spurious |
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Family
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Conjugal
Consanguine Distaff Endogamous Filial Fratricide Progenitor Scion |
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Favoring/Not Impartial
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Ardor/Ardent
Doctrinaire Fervid Partisan Tendentious Zealot |
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Forgive
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Absolve
Acquit Exculpate Exonerate Expiate Palliate Redress Vindicate |
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Funny
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Chortle
Droll Facetious Flippant Give Jocular Levity Ludicrous Raillery Riposte Simper |
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Gaps/Openings
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Abatement
Aperture Fissure Hiatus Interregnum Interstice Lull Orifice Rent Respite Rift |
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Generous/Kind
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Altruistic
Beneficient Clement Largess Magnanimous Munificient Philanthropic Unstinting |
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Greedy
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Avarcious
Covetous Mercenary Miserly Penurious Rapacious Venal |
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Hardhearted
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Asperity
Baleful Dour Fell Malevolent Mordant Sardonic Scathing Truculent Vitriolic Vituperation |
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Harmful
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Baleful
Baneful Deleterious Inimical Injurious Insidious Minatory Perfidious Pernicious |
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Harsh-Sounding
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Cacophony
Din Dissonant Raucous Strident |
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Hatred
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Abhorrence
Anathema Antagonism Antipathy Detestation Enmity Loathing Malice Odium Rancor |
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Healthy
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Beneficial
Salubrious Salutary |
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Hesitate
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Dither
Oscillate Teeter Vacillate Waver |
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Hostile
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Antithetic
Churlish Curmudgeon Irascible Malevolent Misanthropic Truculent Vindictive |
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Innocent--Inexperienced
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Credulous
Gullible Ingeneous Naive Tyro |
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Insincere
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Disingenuous
Dissemble Fulsome Ostensible Unctuous |
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Investigate
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Appraise
Ascertain Assay Descry Peruse |
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Lazy/Sluggish
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Indolent
Inert Lackadaisical Languid Lassitude Lethargic Phlegmatic Quiescent Slothful Torpid |
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Luck
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Adventitious
Amulet Auspicious Fortuitous Kismet Optimum Portentous Propitiate Propitious Providential Talisman |
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Nag
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Admonish
Cavil Belabor Enjoin Exhort Harangue Hector Martinet Remonstrate Reproof |
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Nasty
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Fetid
Noisome Noxious |
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Not a Straight Line
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Askance
Awry Careen Carom Circuitous Circumvent Gyrate Labyrinth Meander Oblique Serrated Sidle Sinuous Undulating Vortex |
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Overblown/Wordy
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Bombastic
Circumlocution Garrulous Grandiloquent Loquacious Periphrastic Prolix Rhetoric Turgid Verbose |
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Pacify/Satisfy
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Ameliorate
Appease Assuage Defer Mitigate Mollify Placate Propitiate Satiate Slake Sooth |
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Pleasant-Sounding
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Euphonious
Harmonious Melodious Sonorous |
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Poor
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Destitute
Esurient Impecunious Indigent |
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Praise
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Acclaim
Accolade Aggrandize Enconium Eulogize Extol Fawn Laud Venerate |
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Predict
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Augur
Auspice Fey Harbinger Portentous Presage Prescient Prognosticate |
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Prevent/Obstruct
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Discomfort
Encumber Fetter Forfend Hinder Impede Inhibit Occlude |
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Smart/Learned
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Astute
Canny Erudite Perspicacious |
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Sorrow
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Disconsolate
Doleful Dolor Elegiac Forlorn Lament Lububrious Melancholy Morose Plaintive Threnody |
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Stubborn
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Implacable
Inexorable Intractable Intransigent Obdurate Obstinate Recalcitrant Refractory Renitent Untoward Vexing |
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Terse (Short-Brief-Abrupt...)
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Compendious
Curt Laconic Pithy Succinct Taciturn |
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Time/Order/Duration
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Anachronism
Antecede Antedate Anterior Archaic Diurnal Eon Ephemeral Epoch Fortnight Millenium Penultimate Synchronous Temporal |
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Timid/Timidity
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Craven
Diffident Pusillanimous Recreant Timorous Trepidation |
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Truth
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Candor/Candid
Fealty Frankness Indisputable Indubitable Legitimate Probity Sincere Veracious Verity |
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Unusual
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Aberration
Anomally Iconoclast Idiosyncrasy |
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Walking About
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Ambulatory
Itinerant Peripatetic |
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Wandering
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Discursive
Expatiate Forage Itinerant Peregrination Peripatetic Sojourn |
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Weaken
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Adulterate
Enervate Exacerbate Inhibit Obviate Stulify Undermine Vitiate |
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Wisdom
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Adage
Aphorism Apothegm Axiom Bromide Dictum Epigram Platitude Sententious Truism |
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Withdrawal/Retreat
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Abeyance
Abjure Abnegation Abortive Abrogate Decamp Demur Recant Recidivism Remission Renege Rascind Retrograde |