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20 Cards in this Set
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Gaudy
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excessively decorated or showy, tacky
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Furtive
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secretive
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Fastidious
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excessively articular, meticulous, or scrupulous
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Expedite
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to speed (something) up
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Dearth
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a shortage of, a paucity
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Surfeit
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a surplus
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Disseminate
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to distribute or spread out
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Discreet
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careful not to offend someone or reveal too much; tactful; using discretion; circumspect
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Discrete
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clearly separate or not connected
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Enigma
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a riddle, a puzzle, a mystery
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Dubious
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unlikely, engendering doubt; hesitating, inclined to doubt, uncertain
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Doleful
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extremely sad, mournful, dejected, melancholy
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Lugubrious
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excessively mournful
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Undaunted
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not afraid or intimidated
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Timorous
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shy, timid
fear |
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Wax*
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to grow larger (as the moon)
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Wane
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to shrink, to dissipate (as the moon)
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Ebb
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to grow, to surge (as the tide)
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Flow*
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to shrink back, to recede (as the tide)
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Prodigal
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wasteful
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