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25 Cards in this Set
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artifice |
cleverness or skill |
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avarice |
extreme greed |
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credulity |
willingness to behave or trust to readily |
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descretion |
power to act according to ones own judgement; quality of being discreet |
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duplicity |
deccitfulness |
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equivocal |
ambigious |
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extrapolation |
to infer an unknown from something that is known |
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imtimation |
something indicated or made known indirectly |
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moribund |
near death or extinction |
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prescience |
knowledge of things before they happen |
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sonorous |
loud, deep or resonant as a sound |
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torpid |
dull; sluggish, inactive |
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vestigial |
occurring or persisting as a rudimentary or degenerate structure |
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artless |
without deceit or cunning; sincere |
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cronyism |
favoring friends |
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disingenuous |
insincere, phony |
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equivocate |
to use ambiguous or unclear expressions, usually to avoid commitment or mislead |
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inure |
to harden or toughen by use |
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morose |
ill-humored; sullen |
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presentiment |
a feeling that something is about to happen |
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propensity |
natural inclination |
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soporific |
causing sleep |
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tortuous |
abounding in irregular bends or turns |
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viable |
capable of living or succeeding |
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supercillious |
showing careless contempt; arrogant |
