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25 Cards in this Set
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Sedulous
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industrious, diligent, busy
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sedulous ape
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somnolent
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sleepy drowsy
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insomniac
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specious
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seemingly reasonable but incorrect; deceptive
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speculate her specious comment
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spurious
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false; counterfeit
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spurious check can spur contraversy
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taciturn
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habitually silent, uncommunicative
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tacite!
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terse
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brief, concise, pithy
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transcend
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to go beyond the limits of, overstep, surpass; exceed
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truculent
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fierce, savage, scathing
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the crazy truculent truck driver almost ran into me on purpose
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unwonted
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uncommon, infrequent, unaccustomed to
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vacillate
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to waver or be changeable
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ventalation sytem moves the air
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venial
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pardonable, excusable
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venus seem's small to us and feels like it doesn't matter
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veracity
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hoensty, habitual truthfulness; truthfulness
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verify the truth
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wanton
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senseless, malicious, reckless
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she went crazy when she ordered her won tons
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venal
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capable of being bribed
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THENALL of them were let go trhough is bribery
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zealous
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very active, eager, devoted
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with great zeal, the zealous worker worked all night
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obstreperous
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unruly noisy and boisterous
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the obscure person was not very tidy looking
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perfidious
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traitorous, tracherous, faithlessness
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some make seem perfect, but will then turn on you at any second
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perfunctory
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mechanical, indifferent carelss, apathetic half hearted
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it was almost robotic how perfuntory she was on time
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perspicuity
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clearness lucidity
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her sweat was clear
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polemic
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dispute, controversy, argumentative debate
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polycrates was really good at speeches
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prototype
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original, model, pattern
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regressive
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giong backward retreating, backsliding
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sagacity
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shrewdness or keenness of judgement; acumen
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savy
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tenuous
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thin unsubstantial flimsy slight
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sententious
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terse, concise, or given to or abouding in excessive moralizing full of old sayings maxims or proverbs
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