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30 Cards in this Set
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Absolve
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Clear of all Guilt or Blame
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Adulation
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Excessive flattery
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Affable
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Approachable; Pleasant
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Alacrity
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Cheerful Willingness
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Ambiguous
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Two or more possible interpretations
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Amiable
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Agreeable; Cordial
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Anachronistic
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Out of the order of time
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Anthropocentrism
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Treating humans as the center of the universe
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Archetypal
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Ideal example or model
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Ascetic
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Renouncing Material comforts
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Assiduous
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Diligent, unceasing, persistent
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Authoritarian
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Obedience to authority
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Berate
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Scold angrily at length
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Bilk
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Defraud; Cheat; Swindle
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Bourgeois
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Middle Class
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Brusque
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Discourteously Blunt
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Calumny
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Malicious; False statement
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Capricious
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Impulsive; Unpredictable
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Carping
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Complaining Fretfully
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Censure
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Strong Disapproval; Criticism
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Cloying
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Too filling, rich, or sweet
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Cogent
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Well reasoned, Convincing
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Commisserate
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Sympathise with
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Concordant
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Harmonious; Agreeing
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Conflate
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Bring together; Combine
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Consecrate
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To dedicate solemnly to a service or goal
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Contemporaneous
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Existing or happening during the same period of time
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Culpable
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Deserving Blame
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Dearth
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A lack or scarcity
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Debacle
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A sudden disastrous difeat
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