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26 Cards in this Set
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Diffident
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Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid
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Prosaic
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Not fanciful or imaginative
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Indefatigable
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Unable to be tired out; unflagging
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Lugubrious
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Excessively mournful
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Didactic
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Inclined to teach or moralize
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Prevaricate
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To stray from or evade the truth
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Spurious
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False, not genuine
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Effrontery
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Audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to
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Cabal
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A secret scheme or plot
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STUDY BOTH WAYS
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DIRECTIONS
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Innocuous
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Harmless, not likely to offend or provoke to strong emotion
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Parsimonious
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Excessively unwilling to spend
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Rapprochement
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The state of reconciliation or of cordial relations
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Concupiscence
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A strong desire, especially sexual desire; lust
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Supplicate
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To ask for humbly or earnestly, as by praying
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Unguent
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A salve for soothing or healing
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Surreptitious
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Marked by quiet and caution and secrecy
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Inexorable
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Relentless
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Laconic
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Using or marked by the use of few words
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Dissimulate
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To disguise (one's intentions, for example) under a false appearance
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Ingenuous
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Lacking in guile, openly straightforward or frank; candid
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Disabuse
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To free from a falsehood or misconception
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Panoply
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A complete and impressive array
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Propitious
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Presenting favorable circumstances; likely to result in or show signs of success
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Beatitude
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Supreme blessedness or happiness
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Fin de siécle
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Relating to or characteristics of the end of a century (especially the end of the 19th century)
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