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36 Cards in this Set
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Abbreviate
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To shorten/ abridge
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Abstinence
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The act of refraining from pleasurable activities
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Adulation
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High praise
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Adversity
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Misfortune, unfavorable turn of events
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Aesthetic
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Pertaining to beauty/arts
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Amicable
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Good-natured
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Anecdote
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Short funny account of an event
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Anonymous
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Nameless
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Antagonist
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Foe
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Paucity
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Smallest of a number
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Probity
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Honesty
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Humdrum
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Dull
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Ignominy
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Monotony
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Extroverted
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Outgoing person
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Magnanimous
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Forgiving
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Effusive
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Overflowing
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Supercilious
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Haughtily disdainful
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Benevolence
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Good willed
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Paragon
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Ideal
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Manificence
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Very generous
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Abstruse
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Unfathomable
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Esoteric
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Confidential
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Lucid
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Clear
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Prosaic
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Dull
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Disparaged
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To be little
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Insoluble
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Difficult/hard to explain
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Endemic
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Prevelent to a specific location
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Ephermal
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Short-lived
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Candid
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Straight forward
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Conjecture
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Inference
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Didatic
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Instructive
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Euphemism
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Mid-term
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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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Rhetoric
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The act of using language effectively
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