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56 Cards in this Set
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abstruse
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hard to understand
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aesthetic
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having to do with the apprecisation of beauty
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alleviate
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to ease a pain or burden
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ambiguous
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open to more then one interpetation
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ambivalent
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simultaneously feeling oppopsing feelings, love and hate
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amenable
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responsive; agreeable
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amiable
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good natured; likeable
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ample
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large amount of something
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arid
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dry; rainless climate
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assiduous
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hard working
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asylum
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a place of retreat or security
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benevolent
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kind; generous
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benign
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kind and gentle
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baised
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prejudice
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brittle
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easily broken with pressure
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brusque
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rudely abrupt manner
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camaraderie
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good will between friends
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cantankerous
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grumpy; disagreeable
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capricious
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impulsive and unpredictable
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catalog
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make into a list
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caustic
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sarcastic or witty
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convolted
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intricate; complex
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decorous
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proper; marked by good taste
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diligent
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marked by painstaking effort; hard working
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disdain
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to regard or treat with contempt; to look down on
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dubious
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doubtful; unlikly authenticity
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effusive
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describing unrestrained emotional expression
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emulate
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to try to equal; make copy of
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fabricated
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made; made in order to decieve
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garrulous
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given to excessive; rambling talk
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gregarious
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enjoying the company of others; sociable
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haughty
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condescendingly proud
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impetuous
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sudden energy or emotion
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inconsequential
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unimportant
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insightful
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perceptive
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intuitive
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knowing or perceiving quickly and readily
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liquid
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flowing readily
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milk
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to draw or extract profit or advantage from
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nocturnal
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occuring in the night
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obscure
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relativly unknown; to conceal
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obstentatious
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describing a showy or pretentious display
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parody
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to make a comic act of
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pervasive
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having the tendency to be everywhere at the same time
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plagerism
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passing off one's ideas as your own
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prophetic
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foretelling or predicting future events
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spurious
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not genuine; false
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suppressed
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subdued; kept from being circulated
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surreptitious
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done by secretive means
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thwart
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to prevent the occurance of
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timorous
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shy; timid
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optimism
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good side; glass half full
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pessimism
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neg. side; half empty
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transitory
transient evanescent ephemeral |
short lived life
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rational
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factual; provable
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subjective
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feelings, opinions, attitudes
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objective
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impartial, factual, based on eveidence
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