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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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abrupt; apace; headlong; impetuous; precipitate
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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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Definition: 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; proselyte; tyro
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Beginning/Young
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burgeoning; callow; engender; inchoate; incipient; nascent
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Biting (as in wit or 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
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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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Definition: Criticize/Criticism
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aspersion; belittle; berate; calumny; castigate; decry; defamation; denounce; deride/derisive; 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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Definition: 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 (hegemony); imperious; peremptory; tyrannical
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Difficult to Understand
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abstruse; ambiguous; arcane; bemusing; cryptic; 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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Definition: Eccentric/Dissimilar
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aberrant; anachronism; anomalous; discrete; eclectic; esoteric; iconoclast
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Embarrass
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abash; chagrin; compunction; contrition; diffidence; expiate; foible; gaucherie; 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; ersatz; 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; gibe; 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; 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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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; ingenuous; naive; novitiate; 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; encomium; eulogize; extol; fawn; laud/laudatory; venerate/veneration
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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; lugubrious; 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
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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; millennium; penultimate; synchronous; temporal
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Timid/Timidity
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craven; diffident; pulsillanimous; 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; anomaly; 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; stultify; 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; rescind; retrograde
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