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40 Cards in this Set
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acquiescent
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reluctantly agreeable; compliant
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amity
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friendship
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assuage
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to relieve; to ease; to pacify
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blight
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decay; disease; widespread death
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capitulate
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to surrender; to yield
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conundrum
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riddle; mystery
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deference
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the act of yielding to someone else out of respect
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deprecate
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to disapprove; to belittle
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despot
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tyrant
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dilatory
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causing lateness; stalling
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doleful
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extremely sad
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elated
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extremely happy; overjoyed
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ethereal
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heavenly; fine; delicately beautiful
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fastidious
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difficult to please
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furtive
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sneaky; secretive
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harbor
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to provide shelter or refuge; to hide
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heresy
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an opinion expressed in defiance of generally accepted ideas
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inane
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silly; insignificant
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indolent
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lazy
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inscrutable
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mysterious
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kinetic
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in motion; active
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ludicrous
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absurd; ridiculous
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malediction
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evil speech; curse
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opine
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to hold or state an opinion
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opportunist
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someone who takes advantage of the situation
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paltry
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worthless; insignificant, petty
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penchant
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a strong liking; attraction
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pithy
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to the point; concise
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platitude
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dull, trite statement
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reticent
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quiet; uncommunicative
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sardonic
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humorous, but humor tinged with sarcasm or disdain; cynical
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slough
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to discard; to cast off; to shed
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subjugate
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to take over; to enslave
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truculent
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aggressive; savage; cruel
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urchin
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a playful or mischievous youngster; scamp
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upbraid
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to criticize severely; to scold
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esoteric
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known to, or understood by, a limited number of people
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culpable
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guilty; blameworthy
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rampant
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unrestrained; widespread
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mitigate
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to make less severe; mollify
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