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94 Cards in this Set
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reticent
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restrained, uncommunicative
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virulent
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extremely poisonous, malignant, full of hate
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discord
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disagreement
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repudiate
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to reject, to deny
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prodigal
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extravagant, wasteful
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guile
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cunning, duplicity
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squander
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to waste
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laudable
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worthy of praise
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depravity
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moral corruption
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extol
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to praise
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euphony
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pleasant sound
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deride
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to ridiculue, to laugh at contemptuously
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insipid
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dull, banal
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austere
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unadorned, stern, forbidding, without much money
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expedite
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ro make faster or easier
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philanthropy
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love of mankind, donating to charity
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deference
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submission to another's will
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vacillate
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to be indescisive
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pragmatic
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proactical, down to earth
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ascetic
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hermit-like
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dogmatic
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arrogantly assertive of unproven ideas
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dissent
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disagreement
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volition
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will, conscious choice
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didactic
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instructive, indtended to instruct
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disparate
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different, incompatible
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disparage
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to belittle
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ephemeral
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short lived, fleeting
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prosaic
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dull, inimaginative
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expedient
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providing an immediate advantage
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fastidious
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meticulous, demanding
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belligerent
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combative, quarrelsome
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languish
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to become weak
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stagnation
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motionlessness, inactivity
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mitigate
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to lessen the severity of something
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engender
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to create, to produce
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relegate
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to banish, to send away
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indolence
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laziness
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congenial
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agreeably suitable, pleasant
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preclude
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to prevent, to make impossible, to shut out
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elusive
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hard to pin down, evasive
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efface
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to erase
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acquiesce
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to give in, to agree
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atrophy
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to waste away from lack of use
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dubious
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doubtful, uncertain
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flagrant
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shocling, outstandingly bad
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immutable
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unchangeable
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coalesce
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to come together as one, to fuse,to unite
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cryptic
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mysterious
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levity
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lightness, frivolity
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innate
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existing since birth, inborn, inherent
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sycophant
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one who sucks up to others
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esoteric
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hard to understand, understood by only a select few
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extraneous
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irrelevant
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caustic
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like acid, corrosive
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inadvertent
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lax, carelessl without intention
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exhaustive
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thorough, complete
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scrupulous
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strict, careful
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respite
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to disprove
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stoic
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indifferent to pleasure or pain
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volatile
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quick to evaporate, highly unstable
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peripheral
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unimportant
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hedonistic
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pleasure-seeking, indulgent
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idiom
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a peculiar expressiob
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brevity
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briefness
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apocryphal
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of doubtful origin, false
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deplete
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to use up, to reduce, to lessen
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amity
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friendship
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stringent
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strict, restrictive
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auspicious
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favorable, promising
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lethargy
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sliggishness
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hackneyed
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banal, overused, trite
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amass
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to accumulate
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bastion
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stronghold, fortress
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desecrate
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to profane a holy place
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fortuitous
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accidental
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furtive
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secretive
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supercilious
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haughty, patronixing
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verbose
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wordy
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innocuous
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harmless, banal
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paucity
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scarcity
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zealous
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fervent, enthusiastically devoted to something
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emulate
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to strive to equal or excel, usually through imitiation
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contrite
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deeply apologetic, remorseful
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recalcitrant
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stubbornly defiant of authority or control
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ambulatory
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able to walk, walking
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diffident
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timid, lacking self- confidence
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marred
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damaged, bruised
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parsimony
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stinginess
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tenacious
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tough, hard to defeat
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blithe
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carefree, cheerful
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dearth
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a lack of, scarcity
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irascible
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irritate
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saccharine
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sweet, excessively or disgustinly sweet
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venerate
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to revere, to treat as something holy
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