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65 Cards in this Set
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Abbreviated Communication |
Abridge Compendium Cursory Curtail Syllabus Synopsis Terse |
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Act Quickly |
Abrupt Apace Headlong Impetuous Precipitate |
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Assist |
Abet Mainstay Advocate Munificent Ancillary Proponent Colster Stalwart Corroborate Sustenance Countenance Espouse |
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Bad Mood |
Bilious Waspish Dudgeon Irascible Pettish Petulant Pique Querulous Umbrage |
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Beginner/Amateur |
Dilettante Fledgling Neophyte Novitiate Proselyte Tryo |
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Beginning/Young |
Burgeoning Callow Engender Inchoate Incipient Nascent |
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Biting (as in wit or temperament) |
Acerbic Acidulous Acrimonious Asperity Caustic Mordacious Mordant Trenchant |
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Bold |
Audacious Courageous Dauntless Intrepid |
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Boring |
Banal Trite Fatuous Quotidian Hackneyed Insipid Mundane Pedestrian Platitude Prosaic |
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Carousal |
Bacchanalian Ribald Debauchery Reprobate Depraved Salacious Dissipated Sordid Iniquity Turpitude Libertine Libidinous Licentious |
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Changing Quickly |
Capricious Mercurial Volatile |
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Copy |
Counterpart Vicarious Emulate Facsimile Factitious Paradigm Precursor Quintessence Stimulate |
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Criticize/Criticism |
Aspersion Deride/Derisive Belittle Diatribe Berate Disparage Calumny Excoriate Castigate Gainsay Decry Harangue Defame/Defamation Impugn Denounce Inveigh |
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Criticize/Criticism |
Lambaste Pillory Objurgate Tirade Obloquy Vituperate Opprobrium Remonstrate Reprehend Reprove Revile |
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Death/Mourning |
Bereave Lament Cadaver Macabre Defunct Moribund Demise Obsequies Dolorous Sepulchral Elegy Wraith Knell |
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Denying to Self |
Abengate Abstain Ascetic Spartan Stoic Temperate |
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Dictatorial |
Authoritarian Despotic Dogmatic Hegemonic/Hegemony Imperious Peremptory Tyrannical |
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Difficult to Understand |
Abstruse Obscure Ambigiuous Opaque Arcane Paradoxical Bemusing Perplexing Cryptic Recondite Enigmatic Turbid Esoteric Inscrutable |
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Disgusting/Offensive |
Defile Fetid Invidious Noisome Odious Putrid Rebarbative Malodorous |
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Easy to Understand |
Articulate Cogent Eloquent Evident Limpid Ludic Pellucid |
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Eccentric/Dissimilar |
Aberrant Anachronism Anomalous Discrete Eclectic Esoteric Iconoclast |
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Embarrass |
Abash Chargrin Compunction Contrition Diffidence Expiate Foible Gaucherie Rue |
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Equal |
Equitable Tantamount |
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Falsehood |
Apocryphal Fallacious Canard Feigned Chicanery Guile Dissemble Mendacious/Mendacity Duplicity Perfidy Equivocate Prevaricate Erroneous Specious Ersatz Spurious |
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Family |
Conjugal Consanguine Distaff Endogamous Filial Fratricide Progenitor Scion |
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Favoring/Not Impartial |
Ardent/Ardor Doctrinaire Fervid Partisan Tendentious Zealot |
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Forgive/Make Amends |
Absolve Acquit Ameliorate Exculpate Exonerate Expiate Palliate Vindicate |
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Funny |
Chortle Raillery Droll Riposte Facetious Flippant Give Jocular Levity Ludicrous |
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Gaps/Openings |
Abatement Rent Aperture Respite Fissure Rift Hiatus Interregnum Interstice Lull Orifice |
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Generous/Kind |
Altruistic Beneficent Clement Largess Magnanimous Munificent Philanthropic Unstinting |
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Greedy |
Avaricious Covetous Mercenary Miserly Penurious Rapacious Venal |
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Hard-Hearted |
Asperity Truculent Baleful Vitriolic Dour Vituperation Fell Malevolent Mordant Sardonic Scathing |
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Harmful |
Baleful Baneful Deleterious Inimical Injurious Insidious Minatory Perfidious Pernicious |
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Harsh-Sounding |
Cacophony Din Dissonant Raucous Strident |
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Hatred |
Abhorrence Anathema Antagonism Antipathy Detestation Enmity Loathing Malice Odium Rancor |
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Healthy |
Beneficial Salubrious Saultary |
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Hesitate |
Dither Oscillate Teeter Vacillate Waver |
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Hostile |
Antithetic Churlish Curmudgeon Irascible Malevolent Misanthropic Truculent Vindictive |
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Innocent/Inexperienced |
Credulous Gullible Ingenous Naive Novitiate Tyro |
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Insincere |
Disingenuous Dissemble Fulsome Ostensible Unctuous |
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Investigate |
Appraise Ascertain Assay Descry Persude |
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Lazy/Slugglish |
Indolent Quiescent Inert Slothful Lackadaisical Torpid Languid Lassitude Lethargic Phlegmatic |
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Luck |
Adventitious Providential Amulet Serendipity Auspicious Talisman Fortuitous Kismet Portentous Propitiate Propitious |
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Nag |
Admonish Martinet Belabor Remonstrate Cavil Reproof Enjoin Exhort Harangue Hector |
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Nasty |
Fetid Noisome Noxious |
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Not a Straight Line |
Askance Oblique Awry Serrated Careen Sidle Carom Sinuous Circuitous Undulating Circumvent Vortex Gyrate Labyrinth Meander |
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Overblown/Wordy |
Bombastic Turgid Circumlocution Verbose Garrulous Grandiloquent Loquacious Periphrastic Prolix Rhetoric |
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Pacify/Satisfy |
Ameliorate Satiate Appease Slake Assuage Soothe Defer Mitiagte Mollify Placate Propitiate |
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Pleasant-Sounding |
Euphonious Harmonious Melodious Sonorous |
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Poor |
Destitute Impecunious Indigent |
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Praise |
Acclaim Accolade Aggrandize Encomium Eulogize Extol Fawn Laud/Laudatory Venerate/Veneration |
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Predict |
Augur Auspice Fey Harbinger Portentous Presage Prescient Prognosticate |
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Prevent/Obstruct |
Discomfit Encumber Fetter Forfend Hinder Impede Inhibit Occlude Thwart |
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Smart/Learned |
Astute Canny Erudite Perspicacious |
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Sorrow |
Disconsolate Morose Doleful Plaintive Dolor Threnody Elegiac Forlorn Lament Lugubrious Melancholy |
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Stubborn |
Implacable Renitent Inexorable Untoward Intractable Vexing Intransigent Obdurate Obstinate Recalcitrant Refractory |
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Terse |
Compendious Curt Laconic Pithy Succinct Taciturn |
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Time/Order/Duration |
Anachronism Epoch Antecede Fortnight Antedate Millennium Anterior Penultimate Archaic Synchronous Diurnal Teamporal Eon Ephemeral |
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Timid/Timidly |
Craven Diffident Pusillanimous Recreant Timorous Trepidation |
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Truth |
Candor/Candid Sincere Fealty Veracious Frankness Verity Indisputable Indubitable Legitimate Probity |
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Unusual |
Aberration Anomaly Iconoclast Idiosyncrasy |
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Wandering |
Ambulatory Peripatetic Discursive Sojourn Expatiate Forage Itinerant Meander Peregrination |
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Weaken |
Adulterate Enervate Exacerbate Inhibit Obviate Stultify Undermine Vitiate |
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Wisdom |
Adage Sententious Aphorism Truism Apothegm Axiom Bromide Dictum Epigram Platitude Sententious Truism |
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Withdrawal/Retreat |
Abeyance Recant Abjure Recidivism Abnegation Remission Abortive Renege Abrogate Rescind Decamp Retrograde Demur |
