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65 Cards in this Set
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BOLD
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audacious, courageous, dauntless
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CHANGING QUICKLY
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capricious, mercurial, volatile
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HESITATE
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dither, oscillate, teeter, vacillate, waver
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ACT QUICKLY
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apace, abrupt, headlong, impetuous, precipitate
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INNOCENT/INEXPERIENCED
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credulous, gullible, naive, ingenuous, novitiate, tyro
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DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND
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abstruse, ambiguous, arcane, bemusing, cryptic, enigmatic, esoteric, inscrutable, obscure, opaque, paradoxical, recondite, turbid
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EASY TO UNDERSTAND
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articulate, cogent, eloquent, evident, limpid, lucid, pellucid
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SMART/LEARNED
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astute, canny, erudite, perspicacious
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CRITICIZE/CRITICISM
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aspersion, belittle, berate, calumny, castigate, decry, defamation, denounce, deride, derisive, diatribe, disparage, excoriate, gainsay, harangue, impugn, inveigh, lambaste, obloquy, objurgate, opprobrium, pillory, remonstrate, rebuke, reprehend, reprove, revile, tirade, vituperate
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IMMORAL/UNJUST
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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
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BITING (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, venetate
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HARMFUL
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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
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WEAKEN
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adulturate, enervate, exacerbate, inhibit, obviate, stulify, undermine, vitiate
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ASSIST
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abet, advocate, ancillary, bolster, corroborate, countenance, espouse, mainstay, munificent, proponent, stalwart
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HOSTILE
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antithetic, churlish, curmudgeon, irascible, malevolent, misanthropic, truculent, vindictive
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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, incohate, incipient, nascent
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GENEROUS/KIND
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altruistic, beneficent, clement, largess, maganimous, munificent, philanthropic, unstinting
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GREEDY
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avaricious, covetous, mercenary, miserly, penurious, venal, rapacious
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TERSE
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compendious, curt, laconic, pithy, succinct, taciturn
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OVERBLOWN/WORDY
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bombastic, circumlocution, garrulous, grandiloquent, loquacious, periphrastic, prolix, rhetoric, turgid, verbose
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DICTATORIAL
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dogmatic, authoritarian, despotic, hegemonic, hegemony, imperious, peremptory, tyrannical
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HATRED
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abhorrence, antagonism, anathema, antipathy, detestation, enmity, loathing, malice, odium, rancor
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BEGINNER/MATUER
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dilettante, fledgling, neophyte, novitiate, proselyte, tyro
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LAZY/SLUGGISH
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indolent, inert, lackadaisical, languid, lassitude, lethargic, phlegmatic, quiescent, slothful
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PACINISATISN
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ameliorate, appease, assuage, defer, mitigate, mollify, placate, propitiate, satiate, slake
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FORGIVE
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absolve, acquit, exculpate, exonerate, exipate, palliate, redress, vindicate
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POOR
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destitute, esurient, indigent, impecunious
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FAVORING/NOT IMPARTIAL
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ardor/ardent, doctrinaire, fervid, partisan, tendentious, zealot
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DENYING OF SELF
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abnegate, abstain, ascetic, Spartan, stoic, temperate
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WALKING ABOUT
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ambulatory, itinerant, 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
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ECCENTRIC/DISSIMILAR
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aberrant, anomalous, anachronism, 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
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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
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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
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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, petulant, pettish, pique, querulous, umbrage, waspish
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EMBARRASS
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abash, chagrin, compunction, contrition, diffidence, expiate, foible, gaucherie, rue
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HARDHEARTED
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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, presage, prescient, prognosticate
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LUCK
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adventitious, amulet, auspicious, fortuitous, kismet, nemesis, optimum, portentous, propitiate, propitious, providential, talisman
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NASTY
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fetid, noisome, noxious
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HARSH-SOUNDING
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assonance, cacophony, din, dissonant, raucous, strident
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PLEASANT-SOUNDING
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euphonious, harmonious, melodious, sonorous
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