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45 Cards in this Set
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painstaking
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expending or showing diligent care and great effort
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palatable
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agreeable; pleasing to the taste
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pallid
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pale; wan
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panacea
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cure-all; remedy for all diseases
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pandemonium
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wild tumult
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parable
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short tale illustrating a moral principle
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paragon
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model of perfection
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partisan
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one-sided; prejudiced; committed to a party
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pastoral
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rural; simple and peaceful; idyllic; relating to shepherds
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pedantic
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showing off learning; bookish
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peerless
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having to equal; imcomparable
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perdition
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damnation; complete ruin
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peremptory
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demanding and leaving no choice
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perfidious
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treacherous; disloyal
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perfunctory
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superficial; not thorough; lakcing interest, care, or enthusiasm
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perjury
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false testimony while under oath
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permutation
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transformation; rearragnement of elements
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perpetrate
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commit an offense
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perpetual
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everlasting
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perturbation
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mental agitation
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peruse
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read with care
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pervasive
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pervading; spread throughout every part
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perverse
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stubbornly wrongheaded;
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petulant
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touchy; peevish
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phlegmatic
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not easily excited to action or emtional displays; calm; sluggish
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pique
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provoke or arouse; annoy; irritation; resentment
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placate
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pacify; conciliate
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placid
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calm; peaceful
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pragmatic
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practical point of view
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premise
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a proposition supporting a conclusion
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prudent
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wise or judicious in practical affairs, discreet
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recluse
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someone who lives in isolation, seclusion
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repudiate
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to reject, cut off, disown w/ disapproval
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reticent
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silent reserved, reluctant, restrained, diffident?
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reverent
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deeply respectful, reverence
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sagacious
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shrewd
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stoic
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showing no emotion, passion unmoved by joy or grief
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stratagem
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a plan, scheme, trick for suprising, deceiving enemy
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subversive
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to cause the downfall, destruction of (to overthrow, undermine principles)
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taciturn
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inclined to silence, reluctant to join conversation (diffident, reticent)
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transcendent
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superior, supreme, going beyond ordinary limits, exceeding
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trepidation
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tremulous fear, alarm, agitation, perturbation, trembling
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urbane
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sophisticated characteristics, elegance
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vacillate
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to waver in opinion, sway, indecisive
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voracious
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craving, consuming large quantities of food, exceedingly ear or avid
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