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158 Cards in this Set
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• Absolve |
pardon
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• Abstract
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theoretical
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• Acrimony
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bitterness
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• Adverse
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hostile
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• Aesthetic
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artistic
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• Affable
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friendly
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• Affinity
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friendship
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• Affluence
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wealth
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• Altruistic
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generous
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• Ambiguous
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unclear
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• Ambivalence
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conflicting emotions
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• Amenable
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submissive
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• Ample
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abundant
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• Antagonistic
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hostile
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• Antiquated
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outdated
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• Apathy
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indifferent
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• Aristocracy
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nobility
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• Arrogance
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pride
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• Assert
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insist
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• Aversion
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dislike
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• Benevolent
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generous
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• Candor
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frankness
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• Castigate
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to punish
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• Charlatan
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quack
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• Chronicle
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record
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• Circumspect
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cautious
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• Compliance
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conformity
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• Conformity
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in agreement
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• Congenial
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friendly
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• Consolidation
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unification
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• Contentious
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quarrelsome
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• Convention
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social customs
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• Curtail
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to shorten
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• Dawdle
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to loiter
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• Debilitate
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to weaken
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• Defiance
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opposition
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• Degenerate
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deteriorates
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• Denounce
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to condemn
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• Depict
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portray
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• Deplore
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regret
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• Derision
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ridicule
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• Derivative
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unoriginal
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• Detached
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not biased
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• Didactic
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teaching
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• Digression
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to ramble
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• Discernible
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distinguish
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• Disclaim
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disown
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• Discord
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conflict
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• Disinterested
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distached
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• Dismiss
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reject
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• Disparage
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belittle
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• Disparate
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unrelatable
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• Dispatch
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speediness
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• Dispel
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to scatter
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• Disperse
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scatter
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• Dissent
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disagree
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• Distinction
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honor
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• Diverse
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various
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• Divulge
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reveal
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• Docile
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obidient
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• Eclipse
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darken
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• Elusive
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evasive
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• Endorse
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approve
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• Enhance
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improve
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• Enumerate
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list
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• Erratic
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unpredictable
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• Erroneous
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wrong
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• Esoteric
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hard to uderstand
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• Espouse
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adopt
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• Excerpt
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selected passage
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• Expedience
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practically
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• Fastidious
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difficult to please
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• Flippant
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not serious
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• Forthright
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honest
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• Frail
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weak
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• Futile
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ineffective
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• Glimmer
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twinkle
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• Gregarious
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socialble
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• Heed
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consider
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• Hinderance
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obstical
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• Hypocritical
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deceving
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• Hypothetical
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based on assumption
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• Impair
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worsen
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• Impede
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roadblock
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• Imperceptible
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unnoticeable
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• Implement
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put into practice
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• Implication
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hint
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• Incorporate
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unite
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• Indict
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charge
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• Indifferent
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unmoved
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• Induce
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persuade
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• Industrious
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dilligent
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• Infallible
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faultness
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• Ingrate
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ungreatful person
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• Innocuous
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harmless
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• Inscrutable
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impenetrable
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• Insolence
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disrespect
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• Intricacy
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complexity
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• Ironic
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sarcastic
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• Lament
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grieve
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• Larceny
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theft
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• Meek
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obedient
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• Meticulous
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careful
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• Mock
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imitate
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• Naivete
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gullable
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• Nostalgia
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homesickness
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• Notorious
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scandalous
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• Novelty
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newness
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• Nurture
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nourish
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• Obscure
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vauge
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• Opaque
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not transparent
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• Outmoded
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outdated
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• Pacify
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soothe
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• Paradox
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contodictary statement
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• Passive
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not active
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• Pedantic
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educated
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• Perjury
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lie under oath
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• Perpetual
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everlasting
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• Pervasive
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throughout
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• Petulant
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arguable
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• Phenomena
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observable
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• Potency
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power
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• Precedent
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original event
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• Predatory
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plundering
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• Prevail
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triumph
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• Proliferation
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rapid growth
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• Prolific
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abundant
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• Prologue
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introduction
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• Prominent
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noticable
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• Recluse
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hermit
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• Refute
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disaprove
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• Remorse
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guilt
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• Reproachful
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expressing disaproval
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• Repudiate
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disown
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• Resolution
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determination
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• Restraint
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controlling force
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• Retain
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keep
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• Reticent
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shy
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• Reverence
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respect
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• Satirize
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mock
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• Scrutinize
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examine closely
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• Seclusion
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isolation
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• Serenity
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calmness
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• Skeptical
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doubtful
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• Subversive
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overthrowing
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• Superfluous
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unnecessary
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• Taciturn
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quiet
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• Temperate
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restrained
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• Tempestuous
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stormy
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• Thwart
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baffle
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• Transparent
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permitting light
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• Turbulence
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violence
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• Utopia
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ideal place
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• Versatile
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multi
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talented
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• Vigor
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strength
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• Volatile
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changeable
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• Wary
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cautious
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• Withhold
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holdback |
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