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33 Cards in this Set
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Too Critical
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Captious
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Clear From Blame
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Exonerate
Exculpate Absolve |
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Short Time
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Ephemeral Fleeting
Compendious Pithy |
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Corrupt
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Unscrupulous Venal Base
Nefarious Depraved Reprobate Dissolute Miasma Ignoble Licentious |
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Dormant
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Torpid Latent
Quiescent |
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Decorated
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Ornate Rococo Baroque
Sanguine Aureate |
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Lavish
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Sumptuous Opulent Posh
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GREED
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Covetous Avarice Cupidity
Rapacity |
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Pompous
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Bombastic Fustian Arrogant
Vain Haughty Sententious Conceited Supercilious Magisterial |
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Sorrowful
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Despondent Forlorn Melancholy
Woeful Disconsolate Doleful Crestfallen Dismal |
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Predict
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Prognosticate Forecast Foretell
Foresee Envision Envisage Presage Divine Auger |
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Express Sorrow
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Lament Keen Dirge
elegy Threnody Monody Requiem |
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TRICKERY
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Subterfuge Guile Stratagem
Artifice Wiliness Ruse Perfidy |
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DISLIKE
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Loath Execrate Abhor
Enmity Antipathy Odium Abominate Animus Dungeon |
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CRITICISM
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Trenchant Vitriol (cruel) Lambaste
Excoriate Inveigh Pillory Scathing |
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PUNISH
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Reprimand Rebuke Upbraid Chastise
Berate Reprove Reproach Chide Admonish Lambaste |
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IRRITATION
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Waspish Tetchy Fractious
Peevish Choleric Splenetic Irascible Crotchety Curmudgeon Ornery Bilious Cantankerous Nettle |
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PROTEST/Against
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DISSIDENCE (against policy)
Dissent (hold view against Remonstration fulminate Demur inveigh |
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QUESTION
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Impugn (call into)
Apocryphal (of questionable authority) |
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SARCASM
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Derision Scorn
Ridicule Sneering Lampoon |
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Superficial
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Ostensible (appear to be true)
Glib (fluent in superficial manner) Factitious |
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Sedulity
Opprobrium |
dedication/diligence
Public disapproval |
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Bemoan
Arrant Epithet |
Express pity for
Complete, Utter word or phrase of abuse |
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Untoward
Ersatz Mordacious |
Unexpected
Artificial Biting sarcasm or invective |
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Low Energy
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Flagging Torpid Attenuate
Languid Lethargic Lassitude Listless Indolence |
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Generous
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Benediction Munificent
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Command
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Edict Precept Dictum
Adjure Decree Interdict |
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Imperious
Arrogate Mendacious |
Assume power without justification
Claim without justification Dishonest |
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Inculpate
Sententious Venal |
Charge with fault
Moralize in pompous or superficial way Susceptible to bribery |
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Indecisive
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Ambivalent Vacillating Dithering
Wavering Equivocating |
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Covetous
Mercurial Solicitous |
Greedy
Unpredictable changes in mood/ volatile Showing interest or concern |
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Bold
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Valorous Temerarious Feisty
NEGATIVE Brash Insolent Impudent Brazen Presumptuous Impertinent |
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Superficially True
RIGHT WORD |
Ostensible Specious
Seeming Illusory Dilettante Spurious |
