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50 Cards in this Set
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Pall |
Grow tiresome |
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Palliate |
Alleviate |
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Pandemonium |
Wild tumult |
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Parochial |
Narrow minded Provincial |
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Pecuniary |
Pretaining to money |
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Pedantic |
Showing off learning Bookish |
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Penchant |
Strong inclination |
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Penury |
Poverty |
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Peremptory |
Demanding and leaving no choice |
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Perennial |
Something continuing or recurring |
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Perfunctory |
Superficial |
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Pernicious |
Destructive |
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Pertinent |
To the point |
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Perturb |
Disturb |
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Phlegmatic |
Calm |
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Pique |
Provoke or arouse Bait |
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Pithy |
Concise Meaningful |
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Pliable |
Flexible |
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Pliant |
Easily influenced |
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Polemical |
Verbally aggressive |
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Pore |
Study industriously |
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Precarious |
Uncertian Risky |
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Precipitate |
Rash Premature |
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Precis |
Concise summing up of main points |
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Precocious |
Advanced in development |
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Predilection |
Bias Preferance |
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Prerogative |
Privledge Power |
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Presentiment |
Feeling something will happen |
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Prevaricate |
Lie |
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Privation |
Hardship |
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Proclivity |
Inclination |
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Prodigal |
Wasteful Reckless with money |
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Profusion |
Abundant quantity |
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Propitate |
Appease |
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Prosiac |
Dull |
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Provident |
Displaying foresight |
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Puerile |
Immature |
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Quail |
Cower Lose heart |
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Quibble |
Minor objection or complaint |
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Quiescent |
At rest |
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Quixotic |
Idealistic but impossible |
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Rancor |
Bitterness Hatred |
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Rapacious |
Excessively greedy |
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Rapport |
Emotional closeness |
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Rapt |
Absorbed Entrenched |
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Raticonation |
Reasoning Act of drawing conclusion |
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Raucous |
Harsh and shrill |
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Recalcitrant |
Stubborn |
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Recant |
Renounce |
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Recapitulate |
Summarize |
