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166 Cards in this Set
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Acumen
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Keenness of insight
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Alacrity
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Cheerful willingness
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Adrogynous
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A being who is both masculine and feminine
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Askance
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To look sideways
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Assiduous
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Diligent
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Avatar
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A reincarnation
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Averse
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Opposed to doing something
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Banal
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Unoriginal
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Beguile
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To delude with guile
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Capricious
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Impulsive
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Cavalier
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Arrogantly Indifferent
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Choler
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Anger
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Compunction
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A strong feeling of uneasiness caused by guilt
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Cursory
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Hasty
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Dalliance
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Something that is fun
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Dauntless
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Fearless
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Defenestrate
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To throw out a window
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Denigrate
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To belittle
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Diffident
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Timid
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Disingenuous
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Crafty
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Dissemble
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To present dishonestly
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Dudgeon
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Emotional state in which you storm out
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Ebullient
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Overflowing with exuberance
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Eclectic
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A section of the best from different sources
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Enervate
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To weaken
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Eleemosynary
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Charitable
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Enigma
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An obscure riddle
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Ennui
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Boredom
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Ephemeral
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Transitory
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Feral
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In a wild state
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Fetid
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Foul smelling
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Flaccid
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Flabby
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Flibbertigibbet
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A frivolous person
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Frenetic
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Frantic
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Fulminate
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To deliver a denunciatory address
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Gregarious
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Happy making new acquaintances
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Hardscrabble
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Eking out a living
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Hector
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To bully
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Heinous
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Abominably villanous
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Homily
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A tedious lecture
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Inchoate
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Not fully formed
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Indigenous
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Aboriginal
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Irascible
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Bad tempered
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Jingoism
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Support of a warlike foreign policy
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Juggernaut
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An unstoppable force
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Kvetch
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To complain
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Lachrymose
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Tearful
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Laconic
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Terse
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Largesse
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Liberality
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Lethargy
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Sluggish Indifference
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Libertine
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One who lives recklessly
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Litigious
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Inclined to take legal action
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Lubricity
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Dishonesty
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Lugubrious
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Mournful
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Malinger
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To make false excuses to avoid work
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Malleable
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Capable of being shaped
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Mitigate
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To moderate in intensity
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Moot
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Debatable
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Motley
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Having components of great variety
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Myriad
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A great multitude
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Nadir
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The lowest point
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Nemesis
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One representing retributive justice
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Nonpareil
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Having no equal
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Opulent
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Affluent
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Oscillate
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To swing back and forth rhythmically
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Ostensible
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Presumed
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Overweening
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Presumptuously Arrogant
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Oxymoron
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Combination of incongruous terms
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Palindrome
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Phrase that reads same backwards as forwards
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Palliative
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Something which alleviates pain
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Palpable
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Tangible
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Paltry
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Petty
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Panacea
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Cure for all sickness and trouble
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Panache
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Heroic flair
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Paramour
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Lover
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Pariah
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Outcast
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Paucity
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Scarcity
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Peccadillo
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A small sin
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Pernicious
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Destructive
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Peruse
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To examine
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Platitude
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A common phrase uttered solemnly
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Plebeian
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Common people
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Plethora
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A superabundance
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Portentous
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Momentously significant
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Preening
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Showing off
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Presage
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An advance warning
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Profligate
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Recklessly extravagant
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Prolific
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Fertile
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Propensity
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A tendency
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Protean
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Capable of taking many forms
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Puerile
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Childish
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Pusillanimous
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Cowardly
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Pyrrhic Victory
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A costly victory
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Quail
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To cower
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Querulous
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Whiningly complaining
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Queue
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A line
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Quixotic
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Impractically visionary
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Raffish
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A rowdy person
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Recalcitrant
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Resistant to authority
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Redress
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To remedy
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Restive
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Impatient
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Ribald
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Indulging in lewd humor
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Roil
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To agitate the waters
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Rue
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To sorely regret
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Sacrosanct
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Regarded as sacred
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Salient
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Conspicuous
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Sallow
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Of a sickly yellowish hue
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Salutary
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Leading to improvement
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Sanguine
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Bloody, confident
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Sanguinary
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Bloodthirsty
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Sardonic
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Sarcastic
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Satiate
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To satisfy an appetite
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Scapegoat
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One who takes the blame
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Scion
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Descendent
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Scurrilous
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Foul mouthed
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Seminal
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Having the power of origination
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Serendipity
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A happy accident
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Servile
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Slavishly Obedient
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Sinecure
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A cushy job
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Skulk
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To lurk in a corner
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Sleight
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Cleverness
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Sojourn
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A pleasurable visit
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Somnolent
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Drowsy
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Spate
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A sudden rush
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Specious
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Seemingly legitimate but phony
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Spurious
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Counterfeit
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Staunch
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Reliable
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Stentorian
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Having a bellowing voice
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Strident
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Harsh
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Superannuated
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Aged
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Supercilious
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Haughty
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Sycophant
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A toady
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Symbiotic
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Beneficial to each
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Supercilious
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Haughty
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Tacit
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Done without words
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Sycophant
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A toady
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Symbiotic
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Beneficial to each
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Tacit
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Done without words
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Tautology
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Ignorant redundancy
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Tawdry
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Cheap and gawdy
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Taciturn
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Withdrawn
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Tenterhooks
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To be on tenterhooks, distraught
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Tenuous
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Having thin form
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Thug
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A brutal criminal
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Tautology
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Ignorant redundancy
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Tawdry
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Cheap and gawdy
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Taciturn
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Withdrawn
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Tenterhooks
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To be on tenterhooks, distraught
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Tenuous
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Having thin form
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Thug
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A brutal criminal
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Thwart
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To stop
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Timorous
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Full of apprehensiveness
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Tintinnabulation
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Ringing of bells
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Titillation
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Playful sexy teasing
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Toady
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A flatterer
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Torpor
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Lethargy
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Trenchant
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Keen
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Trepidation
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A state of dread
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Triage
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Sorting of wounded according to severity
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Truckle
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Take a subservient position
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Truculent
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Savage
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Turgid
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Swollen
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Turpitude
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Depravity
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Ubiquitous
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Omnipresent
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Umbrage
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Taking offense
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Unconscionable
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Unscrupulous
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