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50 Cards in this Set
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Abstruse
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Difficult to understand
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Abysmal
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Extremely hopeless or wretched; bottomless
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Acerbic
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Bitter, sour, severe
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Acumen
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Keenness of judgement; mental sharpness
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Amerliorate
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To make better or more tolerable
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Anathema
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Something or someone loathed or detested
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Ancillary
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Subordinate; providing assistance
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Anomaly
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An aberration, deviation, or irregularity
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Avuncular
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Kind, helpful, generous; like a nice uncle
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Bellicose
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Warlike or belligerent
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Capacitor
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A devise that stores energy
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Capricious
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Unpredictable, likely to change at any moment
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Chagrin
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Humiliation, embarrassed disappointment
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Circumvent
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To go around
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Curmudgeon
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A greedy, irascible, crotchety old person
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Deleterious
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Harmful
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Discomfit
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To frustrate, to confuse
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Divisive
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Creating conflict and disagreement
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Draconian
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Severe, harsh, or cruel
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Ephemeral
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Lasting a very short time
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Expeditious
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Prompt, speedy
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Fecund
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Fertile or productive
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Florid
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Very fancy, usually refers to intangible objects
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Fortuitous
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Accidental, occurring by chance
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Grandiloquent
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Using a lot of big, fancy words to sound impressive
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Hegemony
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Leadership,especially of one nation over another
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Hubris
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Excessive pride
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Idiosyncratic
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Quirky, peculiar, eccentric
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Ignominy
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Shame, disrepute, disgrace
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Inane
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Silly, senseless
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Insouciant
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Nonchalant, lighthearted, carefree
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Lament
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To mourn
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Lexicon
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A glossary or dictionary
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Lugubrious
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Exaggeratedly mournful
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Mellifluous
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Flowing sweetly, usually referring to sound or voices
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Misanthrope
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One who hates people
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Nebulous
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Vague, hazy, indistinct
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Obfuscate
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To darken or confuse
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Panache
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Flair, verve; dashing, eleganceg
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Perfunctory
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Unenthusiastic, careless
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Philistine
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A smugly ignorant person with no appreciation for intellectual or artistic matters
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Philistine
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A smugly ignorant person with no appreciation for intellectual or artistic matters
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Poignant
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Painfully emotionally, extremely moving, sharp or astute
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Polemic
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A powerful argument often made to attack or refute controversial issue
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Predilection
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A natural preference for something
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Profligate
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Extravagantly wasteful; wildly immortal
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Prosaic
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Dull, unimaginative
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Pulchritude
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Physical beauty
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Quixotic
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Idealistic to a foolish or impractical degree, like Don Quixote
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Recapitulate
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To review or summarize
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