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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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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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dilettant, 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 (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
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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/Criticisme
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aspersion, belittle, berate, calumny, castigate, decry, defamation, denounce, deride/derisive, diatribe, disparge, 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, 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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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, ripose, 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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Hard-hearted
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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, tropid
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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, belabor, cavil, enjoin, exhort, harangue, hector, martinet, remonstrate, reproof
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Nasty
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fetid, noisome, novious
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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, soothe
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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, intrinsigent, 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/Duraction
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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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crave, 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, 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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