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65 Cards in this Set
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Aberration
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deviation; abnormality
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Abstruse
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difficult to comprehend
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Affability
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friendliness; cordiality
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Affluence
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wealth and status
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Alleviation
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making less severe
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Amalgamation
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mixture or joining of different components
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Amassed
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accumulated
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Arcane
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esoteric. Known or understood by only a few
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Augmenting
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increasing in size or number
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Belied
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contradicted. To show to be false: "Their laughter belied their outward grief".
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Benevolent
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kindly
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Callous
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cruel and unfeeling
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Candid
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truthful; honest
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Coalition
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a union of two parts
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Concordance
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agreement
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Conflagration
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big fire
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Copious
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in large amounts
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Dearth
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shortage
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Debacle
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disaster
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Disarming
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charming; unthreatening
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Disillusioned
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freed from wrong ideas
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Disparaging
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criticizing
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Embellished
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decorated
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Empathetic
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understanding in an insightful way
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Encompassed
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included; surrounded
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Endorsement
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support; approval
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Entourage
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group of followers; retinue
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Equanimity
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peace of mind; balance; calm
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Eradicating
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wiping out; destroying
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Esoteric
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obscure; Not readily noticed or seen
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Exacerbated
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made worse
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Excised
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cut out
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Exotic
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strange; foreign
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Faction
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section; group with common interests
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Finagle
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wheedle; wangle; trick
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Grating
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harsh; rasping
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Gratuitous
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free; unwarranted
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Hackneyed
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commonplace; over-used
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Insightful
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perceptive. sensitive.
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Insolence
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rudeness
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Intrigued
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interested and curious
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Intuition
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sixth sense; ‘gut feeling’. The act or faculty of knowing or sensing without the use of rational processes
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Languid
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lacking energy; weak
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Lobby
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1. to try to persuade, 2. entrance hall
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Lucid
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clear
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Monotonous
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dull; repetitive
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Motley
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varied; miscellaneous
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Opting
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choosing
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Meager
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small; scanty
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Marred
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spoiled; ruined
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Overhaul
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renovate
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Preclude
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prevent
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Precursors
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forerunners; One that precedes and indicates, suggests, or announces someone or something to come
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Purportedly
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apparently claiming, Assumed to be such; supposed
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Ratify
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give official approval to
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Resilience
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strength; ability to withstand
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Retraction
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removal; ‘taking back’
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Sporadic
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intermittent; on and off
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Spurned
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shunned; rejected
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Substantiated
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backed up; given supporting evidence
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Supplant
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replace
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Truculence
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stubbornness
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Unequivocal
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certain; cannot be disputed
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Voluminous
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large; bulky; extensive
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Winnow
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sift; separate good from bad
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