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54 Cards in this Set
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Adulation
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worship; great praise
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Amiable
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friendly, lovable
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Arable
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can be cultivated ("arable land")
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Articulation
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1. joining, 2. speaking clearly
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Autocrat
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absolute ruler; dictator
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Bountiful
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generous
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Callous
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cruel; hard and unfeeling
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Cerebral
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concerned with thinking
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Compendious
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containing a lot in a small space/few words
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Conciliatory
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bringing together; ending a dispute
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Connoisseurs
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experts with good taste/judgment
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Convivial
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sociable
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Corpulence
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being fat
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Dearth
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shortage
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Debacles
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disasters
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Demonstrative
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expressing emotion freely
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Depreciatory
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devaluing; criticizing
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Facile
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over-simplified
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Floridity
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1. floweriness in language, 2. redness
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Haranguing
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attacking verbally
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Heterogeneity
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variety; non-uniformity
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Histrionic
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melodramatic; expressing exaggerated emotion
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Imperious
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in a commanding manner
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Indulgent
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kindly; pampering
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Inscrutable
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Difficult to fathom or understand.
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Insufferable
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cannot be tolerated
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Insular
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narrow-minded
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Intemperate
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not moderate; excessive
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Intonation
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tone of voice
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Lavish
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1. (verb) to spend freely, 2. (adj.) opulent; costing a lot.
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Litigious
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seeking legal remedies
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Magnanimous
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generous minded; big-hearted
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Mandatory
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Required or commanded by authority; obligatory. Compulsory.
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Momentous
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of great importance
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Nemesis
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An opponent that cannot be beaten or overcome.
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Opacity
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lack of transparency; being opaque
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Palliative
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something that makes better but does not cure
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Peer
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1. (noun) an equal, 2. (verb) to look closely at
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Profundity
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depth (of ideas/thought)
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Radical
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revolutionary
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Redolent
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smelling of (literal or metaphoric)
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Reprehensible
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very bad
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Robust
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strong and sturdy
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Solicitous
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expressing care and concern
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Somber
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gloomy. Dull or dark in color.
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Succulent
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juicy
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Sycophants
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toadies; flatterers
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Therapeutic
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medicinal
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Thwarted
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prevented
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Toadies
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sycophants; flatterers; boot-lickers
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Undermined
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weakened
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Vex
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annoy
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Viscous
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thick and sticky
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Wistful
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sad, yearning; longing in a thoughtful way
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