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50 Cards in this Set
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compendium
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concise,
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abet, ancillary, countenance, munificent
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Assist
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bilious, irascible,pique, umbrage
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bad mood, annoyed
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dilettante, neophyte, novitiate, proselyte, tyro
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beginner,amateur (novice)
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callow, engender, inchoate, incipient, nascent
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Beginning, young
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acerbic, acidulous, asperity, mordant, trenchant
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caustic, biting in wit or temperament
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fatuous, insipid, quotidian
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boring, vapid or trite,
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bacchanalian,dissipated, iniquity, reprobate, ribald, turpitude
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vulgar carousal, and merrymaking
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facsimile, factitious, paradigm, quintessence, vicarious
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copy, artificial
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aspersion, calumny, harangue, impugn, inveigh, objurgate, obloquy, opprobrium, pillory, reprove, vituperate, fulminate
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criticize, ridicule
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dolorous, obsequies, sepulchral
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Death, mourning
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imperious, peremptory
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dictatorial, overbearing
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abstruse, bemusing, esoteric, recondite, turbid
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difficult to understand, opaque
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invidious, odious, rebarbative
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disgusting, offensive
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limpid, pellucid
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easy to understand, clear
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chagrin, compunction, contrition, diffidence, expiate, gaucherie
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embarrass, remorse
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apocryphal, canard, dissemble, ersatz, perfidy, prevaricate, specious, spurious
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falsehood, deceptive
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consanguine, endogamous, distaff, progenitor, scion
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Family, related
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doctrinaire, tendentious, solicitous, predilection
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Favoring, not impartial
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simper, raillery, chortle, facetious
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funny,good-humored
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abatement, aperture, interregnum, interstice, respite
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gaps, openings
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altruistic, clement, munificent,unstinting
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generous,kind
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penurious, avaricious, miserly, rapacious
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greedy, stingy
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asperity, baleful, fell, vitriolic, vituperation, obdurate
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Hardhearted, abusive
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deleterious, inimical, minatory, perfidious, pernicious, virulent
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Harmful
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anathema, antipathy, enmity, odium/odious
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hatred
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salubrious, salutary
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healthy
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antithetic, churlish, irascible
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hostile
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fulsome, ostensible, unctuous
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insincere, excessive
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quiescent, lackadaisical, lassitude
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lazy, sluggish
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auspicious, kismet, optimum, portentous, propitiate, providential
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favorable, luck
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cavil, enjoin, hector, martinet, reproof
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nag, belabor
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carom, serrated, sidle, sinuous, undulating
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not a straight line
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circumlocution, loquacious, periphrastic, prolix, turgid
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overblown, wordy, roundabout
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slake, satiate, propitiate
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pacify, satisfy
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impecunious, esurient, indigent
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Poor
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Extol, eulogize, aggrandize, encomium
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Praise
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augur, auspice, fey, portentous, presage, prescient, prognosticate
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Predict
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forfend, occlude, demur, stymie
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prevent, obstruct
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erudite, perspicacious
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smart
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dolor, elegiac,lugubrious, threnody
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Sorrow, gloom
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inexorable, intractable, obdurate, refractory, renitent
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Stubborn,resistant
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compendious, curt, pithy, chary
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terse, brief
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antecede, antedate, anterior, diurnal, penultimate
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time, order
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diffident, pusillanimous, recreant, timorous
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Timid, craven
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Aver, fealty, veracious
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Truthful
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discursive, expatiate, peregrination, ambulatory, itinerant, peripatetic
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wandering, walking about
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enervate, exacerbate, stultify, vitiate
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weaken
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adage, aphorism, apothegm, bromide, epigram, sententious
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general truth, platitude, trite
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abeyance, decamp, recant, recidivism, remission, renege, rescind
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withdraw, annul, abrogate
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