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68 Cards in this Set
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BOLD
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Audacious
Courageous Dauntless Impertinence |
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CHANGING QUICKLY
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Capricious
Mercurial Volatile |
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HESITATE
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Dither
Vacillate Oscillate Waver Teeter |
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ACT QUICKLY
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Abrubt
Impetuous Apace Precipitate Headlong Deft |
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INNOCENT/INEXPERIENCED
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Credulous
Naive Gullible Novitiate Ingenuous Tyro |
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DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND
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Abstruse
Bemusing Esoteric Opaque Recondite Ambiguous Cryptic Inscrutable Paradoxical Turbid Arcane Enigmatic Obscure Perplexing Ambivalent Futility |
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EASY TO UNDERSTAND
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Articulate
Evident Pellucid Cogent Limpid Eloquent Lucid |
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SMART/LEARNED
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Astute
Perspicacious Canny Erudite Acuity Deft Ingenuity |
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CRITICIZE/CRITICISM
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Aspersion, belittle, berate, calumny, castigate, decry, defame/defamation, denounce, deride/derisive, diatribe, disparage, excoriate, gainsay, harangue, impugn, inveigh, lambaste, obloquy, objurgate, opprobrium, pillory, rebuke, remonstrate, reprehend, reprove, revile, tirade, vituperate, impeachable
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CAROUSAL (drunken behavior)
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Bacchanalian
Depraved Dissipated Iniquity Libertine Libidinous Licentious Reprobate Ribald Salacious Sordid Turpitude |
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TRUTH
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Candor/Candid
Fealty Frankness Indisputable Indubitable Legitimate Probity Sincere Veracious Verity |
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FALSEHOOD
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Apocryphal, canard, chicanery, dissemble, duplicity, equivocate, erroneous, ersatz, fallacious, feigned, guile, mendacious, mendacity, perfidy, prevaricate, specious, spurious, calumnious
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BITING (as in wit or temperament)
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Acerbic
Acidulous Acrimonious Asperity Caustic Mordant Mordacious Trenchant |
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PRAISE
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Acclaim
Accolade Aggrandize Encomium Eulogize Extol Fawn Laud/Laudatory Venerate |
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HARMFUL
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Adverse
Baleful Baneful Deleterious Inimical Injurious Insidious Minatory Perfidious Pernicious |
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TIMID/TIMIDITY
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Craven
Diffident Pusillanimous Recreant Timorous Trepidation |
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BORING
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Banal
Fatuous Hackneyed Insipid Mundane Pedestrian Platitude Prosaic Quotidian Trite Trivial |
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WEAKEN
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Adulterate
Enervate Exacerbate Inhibit Obviate Stultify Undermine Vitiate |
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ASSIST
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Abet
Advocate Ancillary Bolster Corroborate Countenance Espouse Mainstay Munificent Proponent Stalwart Sustenance |
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HOSTILE
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Antithetic
Churlish Curmudgeon Irascible Malevolent Misanthropic Truculent Vindictive Petulant Tetchy Vituperative |
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STUBBORN
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Implacable
Inexorable Intractable Intransigent Obdurate Obstinate Recalcitrant Refractory Renitent Untoward Vexing |
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BEGINNING/YOUNG
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Burgeoning
Callow Engender Inchoate Incipient Nascent Puerility |
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GENEROUS/KIND
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Altruistic
Beneficent Clement Largess Magnanimous Munificent Philanthropic Unstinting |
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GREEDY
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Avaricious
Covetous Mercenary Miserly Penurious Rapacious Venal |
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TERSE (brief)
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Compendious
Curt Laconic Pithy Succinct Taciturn Perfunctory |
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OVERBLOWN/WORDY
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Bombastic
Circumlocution Garrulous Grandiloquent Loquacious Periphrastic Prolix Rhetoric Turgid Verbose Intemperate Surfeited |
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DICTATORIAL
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Authoritarian
Despotic Dogmatic Hegemonic Hegemony Imperious Peremptory Tyrannical |
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HATRED
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Abhorrence
Anathema Antagonism Antipathy Detestation Enmity Loathing Malice Odium Rancor |
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BEGINNER/AMATEUR
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Dilettante
Fledgling Neophyte Novitiate Proselyte Tyro Puerility |
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LAZY/SLUGGISH
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Indolent
Inert Lackadaisical Languid Lassitude Lethargic Phlegmatic Quiescent Slothful Torpid Otiosity |
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PACIFY/SATISFY
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Ameliorate
Appease Assuage Defer Mitigate Mollify Placate Propitiate Satiate Torpid |
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FORGIVE
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Absolve
Acquit Exculpate Exonerate Expiate Palliate Redress Vindicate |
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POOR
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Destitute
Esurient Impecunious Indigent |
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FAVORING/NOT IMPARTIAL
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Ardent/Ardor
Doctrinaire Fervid Partisan Propitious Tendentious Zealot Sanguine Tenable |
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DENYING TO SELF (tolerant)
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Abnegate
Abstain Ascetic Spartan Stoic Temperate |
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WALKING ABOUT
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Ambulatory
Itinerant Meander Peripatetic |
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INSINCERE
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Disingenuous
Dissemble Fulsome Ostensible Unctuous |
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PREVENT/OBSTRUCT
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Discomfit
Encumber Fetter Forfend Hinder Impede Inhibit Occlude Preclude |
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ECCENTRIC/DISSIMILAR
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Aberrant
Anachronism Anomalous Eclectic Esoteric Discrete Iconoclast |
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FUNNY
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Chortle
Droll Facetious Flippant Gibe Jocular Levity Ludicrous Raillery Riposte Simper |
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SORROW
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Disconsolate
Doleful Dolor Elegiac Forlorn Lament Lugubrious Melancholy Morose Plaintive Threnody |
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DISGUSTING/OFFENSIVE
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Defile
Fetid Invidious Noisome Odious Putrid Rebarbative |
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WITHDRAWAL/RETREAT
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Abeyance
Abjure Abnegation Abortive Abrogate Decamp Demur Recant Recidivism Remission Renege Rescind Retrograde Consign Eschew |
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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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COPY
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Counterpart
Emulate Facsimile Factitious Paradigm Precursor Quintessence Simulated Vicarious |
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EQUAL
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Equitable
Equity Tantamount |
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UNUSUAL
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Aberration
Anomaly Iconoclast Idiosyncrasy Curio |
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WANDERING
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Discursive
Expatiate Forage Itinerant Peregrination Peripatetic Sojourn |
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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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HEALTHY
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Beneficial
Salubrious Salutary |
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ABBREVIATED COMMUNICATION
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Abridge
Compendium Cursory Curtail Syllabus Synopsis Terse |
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WISDOM
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Adage
Aphorism Apothegm Axiom Bromide Dictum Epigram Platitude Sententious Truism |
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FAMILY
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Conjugal
Consanguine Distaff Endogamous Filial Fratricide Progenitor Scion |
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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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INVESTIGATE
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Appraise
Ascertain Assay Descry Peruse |
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TIME/ORDER/DURATION
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Anachronism
Antecede Antedate Anterior Archaic Diurnal Eon Ephemeral Epoch Fortnight Millennium Penultimate Synchronous Temporal |
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BAD MOOD
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Bilious
Dudgeon Irascible Pettish Petulant Pique Querulous Umbrage Waspish |
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EMBARRASS
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Abash
Chagrin Compunction Contrition Diffidence Expiate Foible Gaucherie Rue Abase Opprobrium |
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HARDHEARTED (threatening or cynical)
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Asperity
Baleful Dour Fell Malevolent Mordant Sardonic Scathing Truculent Vitriolic Vituperation |
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NAG
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Admonish
Cavil Belabor Enjoin Exhort Harangue Hector Martinet Remonstrate Reproof |
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PREDICT
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Augur
Auspice Fey Harbinger Portentous Precursor Presage Prescient Prognosticate Adumbrated |
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LUCK
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Adventitious
Amulet Auspicious Fortuitous Kismet Optimum Portentous Propitiate Propitious Providential Serendipity Talisman Sanguine |
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NASTY
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Fetid
Noisome Noxious |
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HARSH-SOUNDING
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Cacophony
Din Dissonant Raucous Strident |
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PLEASANT-SOUNDING
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Euphonious
Harmonious Melodious Sonorous |
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Vociferous
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Loud, insistent, boisterous, clamorous, vehement
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Lucid
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Easy to understand, coherent, articulate
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Nonplussed
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Surprised, confused, flummoxed
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