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50 Cards in this Set
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Brevity
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breif in duration
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Expedient
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appropriate to a purpose; convenient; speedy
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Transient
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Passing quickly in time or space
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Augment
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To make greater in size; quanitty; to supplement
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Bolster
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To hearten support or prop up
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Burgeon
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To grow and flourish
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Copious
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Abundant
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Distend
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to swell out or expand from internal pressure; as when overly full
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grandiose
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great in scope or intent; grand
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Prodigious
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Enormous
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Profundity
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great depth or intellect, feeling or meaning
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Redouble
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to make twice as great; to double
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Scintillating
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brilliant
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Averse
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strongly disinclined
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Conspicuous
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easy to notice; obvious
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Demure
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modest and reseved
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Diffidence
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shyness
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docile
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willing to be taught; submissive to instruction
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innocuous
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harmless; having no adverse effect
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Placid
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calm or quiet; undisturbed
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Quiescent
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quiet; still; or at rest; inactive
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Concord
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Agreement
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Concur
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to agree
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Dogmatic
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Stubbornly attrached to insufficiently proven beleifs
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Fastidious
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Carefully attentive to details; difficult to please
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Intransigence
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refusal to maderate a position or to compromise
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Jocular
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characterized by or given to joking
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Meticulous
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Extremely careful and percise
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Affable
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Easygoing; freindly
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Alacrity
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Promptness in response; cheerful readiness; eagerness
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Amiable
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freindly; agreeable; good natured
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Beign
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kind and gentle
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Sanguine
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cheerful, confident; optimistic
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Belligerent
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eager to fight, hostile or aggressive
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Cantanlerous
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ill-tempered and quarrelsome; disagreeable
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Contentious
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Quarrelsome
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Deleterious
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having a harmful effect
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Exacerbate
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to increase the severity, violence, or bitterness of; aggravate
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Filppant
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disrespectfully humorous or casual
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Insolent
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insulting in manner of speech
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Nefarious
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Vicous; Flagrantly wicked
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Pernicious
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extremely or irrevocably harmful; deadly
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rancorous
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marked by bitter, deep seated ill-will
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Repugnant
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Arousing disgust or aversion; offensive or repulsive
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Supercilious
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Disdainful; haughty; arrogant
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Arboreal
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Realating to or resembling a tree or trees
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Invocation
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a call for assistance, support or inspiration(usually upon higher power)
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Stratify
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to layer or seperate into layers
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Variegated
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Having streaks, marks, or patches of a different color or colors; varicolored
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Verdant
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Green with vegetation
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