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25 Cards in this Set
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Abstracted
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difficult to understand, apart from concrete realities
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Adulation
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to show excessive admiration or devotion to, to flatter
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Adversity
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misfortune, obstacle, calamity, distress
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Burgeon
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to grow or develop quickly, to flourish
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Chimera
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a horrible creature of imagination
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Culpable
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Blameworthy, deserving blame or censure
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Decadent
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Characterized by corruption or immorality
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Entreaty
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Earnest request or petition
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Fatuous
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foolish, silly, unreal, illusory
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Humane
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characterized by tenderness, compassion or sympathy
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Indulgent
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showing indulgence, being lenient or permissive
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Ineptness
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not skilled enough, unsuitable, not enough aptitude
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Ingrate
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an ungrateful person
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Inundate
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to flood, cover, to overwhelm
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Miser
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a person who lives in a circumstance where they have to save money, stingy, unhappy person
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Neefarious
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extremely wicked or villainous
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Prattle
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to talk in a foolish or simple minded way, chatter
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Predilection
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tendency to think favorably of something in particular, bias
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Procrastinate
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to put off work till another day, to prolong, postpone
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Stoic
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one who shows no emotion, submit without hesitation
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Suffrage
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right to vote
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Summon
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to call or notify to appear at a place, to call for the presence of
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Transparent
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Having the property to see through or admit light through, clear
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Turbulence
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violent disorder or commotion
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Viable
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Capable of living, having the ability to grow, expand or develop
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