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23 Cards in this Set
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To look back; survey of past time
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retrospect
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seemingly indifferent to joy,pleasure, or pain
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stoic
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a self-seeking flatterer
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sychophant
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cure-all
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panacea
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a person who puts forward a proposition of proposal
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proponent
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to show excessive admiration or devotion to
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adulation
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coming, arrival
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advent
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person devoted to welfare of others
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altruist
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lack of interest in or concern
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apathy
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person who confers a benefit;kindly helper
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benefactor
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kindly disposition, gracious
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benign
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criticize or reprimand severely
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castigate
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occurring or existing simultaneously or side by side
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concurrent
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to attack the good name or reputation of
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defame
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person who takes up an art
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dilettante
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lack of concord or harmony between persons or things
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discord
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to wipe out; to do away with
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efface
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pleasant in sound; agreeable to the ear
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euphonious
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to clear, as of an accusation
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exonerate
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glorify, exalt, celebrate
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extol
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unskillful, awkward; tactless
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maladroit
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to speak harmful truths about
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malign
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not straight or directs
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oblique
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