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90 Cards in this Set
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Scropulous
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careful of small deatils; honest; conscientions
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surreptitious
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done of acting in a secret, sly manner.
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tenatious
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touch; stuborn; not letting go
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copious
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abundant; plentiful
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vorations
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an instatable appetite for an activity or pursuit; eager to consume food
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officious
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ready to searve; offering; unwanted advice
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spurious
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not genuine; false
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onerous
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troublesome; oppressive; burdensome
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gregorious
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seeking and enjoying complany
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pious
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holy
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panorama
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unbroken view of a wide area
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saga
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a long story
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plethora
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super-abundance
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gradient
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a slope
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adherent
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supporter
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vent
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an outlet; a small hole
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armament
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military supplies and weponds
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presentiment
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a sence that something is about to happen
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corpulent
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fat; obease
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circumvent
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to sorround
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skullduggery
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trickery; underhandedness
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ancillary
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helping; subordinant
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sedentary
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characterized by or requiring much sitting; accostomed to little exercise
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curosry
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rapid and superficial
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preditory
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victomizing or destroying others
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symmetry
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exact correspondence
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tawdry
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gaudy; cheap in apperance
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ambulatory
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partaining to, capable of waling
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idolatry
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exessive adoration
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pecuniary
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pertaining to money
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gullible
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easily cheated or fooled
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mawkish
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excessively sentimental
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raffish
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cheaply vulgor appearance or nature; tawdry; disreputable
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continuumm
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a continuous whole; without clear division
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travail
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strenuous physical or mental labor or effort; the labor of child birth
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intreped
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fearless; bold
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languid
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lacking energy; weak; showing little interest in anything
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exodus
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a mass departure
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influx
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a mass arrival or incomming; a continuous comming
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abash
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to make ashamed or uneasy
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terse
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brief and to the point
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coarce
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to forse someone by threatenting or physically overpowering
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diverse
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different; varied
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abate
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to reduce
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abide
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to remain; continue to stay; endure
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gambit
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to take a risk for some advantage
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jaunt
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a short pleasure trip
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frank
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straigh forward; open and sincer in expression
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lithe
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benging easily and gracefully
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aesthetic
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having to do with artistic beauty
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deploy
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to arrange strategically
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egg
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to encourage or inate
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nullify
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to cancel; undo
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cavalier
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nonchalant; casual; brave
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mete
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to sidtribute; allot
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waffle
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to speak/write evasively
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enhance
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to improve
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ascribe
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origin
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impair
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to diminnish
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edifice
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to building, esspessially one of imposing appearance or sice
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paradox
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a statement that seems true but at the same time seems to contridict with truth
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penitent
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having sorrow or remorse for what you've done
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muse
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to ponder, meditate, think about at length
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gloat
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to brag greatly
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pique
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irritation; to arouse curisosity
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dispel
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to drive away; dissipate
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ramification
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a result of a problem or pain
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allure
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to entice with something disirable; temp
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commodious
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spacious, roomy
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circumspect
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cautious; needful of situations and potential consequences
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abstract
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difficult to understand; impersonal; theoretical
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defunct
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dead or inactive; having ceast to exist
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succint
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breif and to the point; concise and terse
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palpable
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capable of being touched or felt
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accountable
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expected to answer for one's actions; responsible, likaeable, answerable
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astensible
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genuine or real
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pliable
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receptive to change; easily persuaded or controlled; easily bent or twisted
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adroit
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skillful; cleft
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bauble
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a small, inexpensive trinket
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prudent
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causious, discrett; exercising good judgemtn
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embulance
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enthusiastic; bubbling with excitement
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rhetoric
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the art or study of using language effectively and persuasively; over-elavorate language
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dogmatic
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characterized by an authoritative, often arrogant, assertion of opinions of beliefs
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philippic
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a verbal denunciation characterized by harsh, unsulting language; a tirade
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idyllic
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charming in a rustic wat, batrually pe
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cryptic
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having an ambifuous or diggen meaning
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cholenic
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hot-tempered; quick to anger
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peccadillo
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a slight or trifling sin; a mior offense
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emphatic
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forceably expressive
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logistics
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the management of an operation
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