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53 Cards in this Set
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candid
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completely honest, straightforward
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conjecture
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inference, guesswork
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didactic
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instructive, lecturing
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effusive
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showing excessive emotion; overflowing
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euphemism
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soft substituted for harsh
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extrapolate
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to infer
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incoherent
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lacking connection
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insinuate
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to communicate stealthily
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loquacious
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very talkative
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lucid
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easily understood; clear
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rhetoric
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using language effectively and persuasively
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acumen
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quickness, acuracy
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adroit
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dexterous
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ascertain
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to find out through experimentation
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astute
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shrewd; clever
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circumspect
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careful, prudent, discreet
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disseminate
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to scatter widely
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erudition
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extensive learning
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pedantic
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excessively concerned with book learning
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perspicacious
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shrewd, clear sighted
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pragmatic
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practical
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precocious
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showing unusually early maturity
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prolific
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very productive
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prospectus
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formal proposal
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rudimentary
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basic, elementary
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abstruse
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difficult to understand
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callous
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hardened
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convoluted
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intricate, complex
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disaffected
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having lost faith or loyalty
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enigma
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a puzzle, mystery, riddle
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inscrutable
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difficult to fathom or understand
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reticent
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inclined to keep silent, reserved
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staid
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unemotional, serious
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arcane
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known or understood by few
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assimilate
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to become the same
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autonomy
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independence
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cosmopolitan
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worldly, widely sophisticated
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derivative
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comes from something else
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esoteric
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understood by a small group
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gaffe
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a clumsy social error
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idiosyncrasy
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characteristic unique to a person
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insular
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isolated
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orthodox
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adhering to the traditional/established
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potentate
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monarch
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castigate
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to scold, rebuke, or harshly criticize
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censure
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to issue official blame
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denounce
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to condemn openly
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reclusive
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preferring seclusion
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relinquish
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to give up, abandon
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renounce
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to give up
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vituperative
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harshly abusive
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circumscribe
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to restrict, draw a circle around
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contiguous
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touching, sharing an edge
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