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50 Cards in this Set
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mundane
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typical of the ordinary
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charlatan
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fake
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morose
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ill-humored; sullen.
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aberration
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something different from the normal or usual
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chicanery
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trickery; fraud
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didactic
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instructional; teaching
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eccentric
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odd
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prescient
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having knowledge of events before they occur
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garrulous
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very talkative
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peregrinate
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to wander from place to place
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peripatetic
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moving from place to place
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bibliophile
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book lover
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tome
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book
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tenuous
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weak; insubstantial
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puerile
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childish; immature
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admonish
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to reprimand
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pretentious
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making an extravagant show; ostentatious
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pedantic
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having a narrow concern for book learning and technicalities
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exotic
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strikingly unusual
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inscribed
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written
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inopportune
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ill timed
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forlorn
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nearly hopeless
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diligent
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making a persistent and painstaking effort
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affable
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friendly
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astute
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keen in judgement; shrewd
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aesthetic
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pertaining to beauty or art
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deploy
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station systematically over an area
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perogative
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exclusive right or privilege
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countenance
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facial expression
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incandescent
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shining brightly
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supernal
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heavenly; celestial
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benign
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harmless
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engender
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to cause; produce
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disdain
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to treat with scorn or contempt
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enigmatic
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deeply puzzling; mysterious
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furtively
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sneakily; stealthily
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savant
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learned person
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reclusive
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seeking seclusion
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pique
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to arouse
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ebullient
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over-flowing with enthusiam
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acerbic
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sharp tempered
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volatile
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tending to vary frquently
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bellicose
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aggresive
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query
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question
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pedagogical
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related to teaching
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eclectic
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selecting from various sources
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arcane
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known only by few; obscure
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lexicon
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vocabulary
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quiescent
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still; inactive
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saga
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prose narrative
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