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105 Cards in this Set
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Abscond
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To depart secretly
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Abstruse
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Difficult to understand; recondite
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Acerbic
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Sour or bitter tasting; acid
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Adroit
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Clever; skillful
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Ambivalence
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Presence of two opposing feelings at the same time; contradicting values
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Ameliorate
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To make or become better
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Amorphous
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Formless and shapeless
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Apex
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Highest point; a high point of achievement; a climax
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Apprise
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To inform, to tell
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Arcane
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Mysterious; understood by few
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Ardor
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Warmth of feeling
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Ascetic
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A person who practices self-denial
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Asperity
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Roughness or unevenness of surface; sharpness of temper
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Assiduous
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Persistent; persevering; hard-working
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Astute
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Shrewd; cunning; crafty; clever
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Atrophy
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Cause to waste
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Audacious
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Daring;foolishly bold; impudent
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Averse
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Unwilling; reluctant; resistant
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Aversion
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Strong dislike
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Baleful
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Destructive; harmful
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Banal
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Boring; common; ordinary; dull
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Baneful
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Poisonous, harmful, destructive
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Beguile
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To deceive by charm; to make time pass by pleasantly
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Belie
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To give a false idea; fail to fulfil a promise
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Bilk
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Cheat; to defraud; swindle
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Bombast
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Speech intended to capture the attention of the audience; high- sounding language
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Boorish
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Crudely insensitive; rude person
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Brevity
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Shortness; conciseness
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Bumptious
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Offensively self-important
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Cacophony
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Unpleasant mixture of sounds; harsh noise; discord
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Cajole
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To deceive by flattery; to coax
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Cantankerous
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Hard or irritating to deal with
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Capacious
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Able to hold much
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Capitulate
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Surrender : yield to an enemy on conditions agreed upon
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Celerity
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Swiftness; fast
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Charlatan
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Imposter (one who assumes an identity or title to deceive others)
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Chasten
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To discipline or punish for the purpose of making better
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Chastise
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Punish by scolding or beating
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Chicanery
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Trickery (scheme to deceive; prank; deceptive)
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Choler
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Anger
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Circumspect
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Cautious
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Clemency
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Mercy; pity; kindness
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Cloister
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A convent or monastery; isolated from the outside world
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Coalesce
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To grow together; unite into one body
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Collate
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To compare carefully to learn the difference between the copies; arrange pages in proper sequence
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Color
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To influence, affect or alter
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Consonance
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Harmony; agreement
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Consummate
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To complete fully and perfectly
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Contagion
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Poison, disease spread by contact
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Contrite
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Feeling remorse or sorry for wrongdoing
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Convivial
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Festive; fond of feasting
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Copious
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Plentiful
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Corporeal
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Related to the body; material; physical
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Cupidity
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Greed for gain, especially for property or money
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Cursory
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To work in a hurry without paying attention to details
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Dearth
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Scarcity; lack; rare
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Decadence
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Cultural and moral decline
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Delineate
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To describe; to portray; describe with accuracy
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Deplore
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To grieve for; to regret
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Deprecate
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To express disapprove
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Desecrate
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Treat something usually sacred with disrespect
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Desiccant
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A drying agent; a dehydrant
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Despondent
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Having loss of hope
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Desultory
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Without system or purpose; unorganized
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Dilatory
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Causing delay
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Disparage
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To talk down; depreciate; belittle
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Distended
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Stretch out or expand
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Dogmatic
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Insisting on one’s opinion without proofs; pushy
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Doleful
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Sad; depressed
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Dolt
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Stupid person
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Dour
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Sullen, gloomy, stern, hard
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Duplicity
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Sneakiness; deceit; deliberate deception
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Efface
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Wipe out
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Effervescence
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Full of life or excitement
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Electic
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Choosing from many different sources; carefully selected
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Enervate
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Wear out; make weak, especially in physical strength
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Enigma
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A person or an act not easily understood; brain-twister
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Enmity
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Hostility
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Ephemeral
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Last only for a short time; short lived
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Erudition
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Knowledge obtained by learning; know-how; expertise
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Eulogize
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To exalt those who have passed away (usually during a funeral)
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Expunge
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To wipe out or erase something
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Expurgate
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To take out improper parts from a book
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Extraneous
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Not related to the matter; not essential
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Fastidious
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Fussy; hard to please; meticulous
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Florid
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Rich in ornament and color; reddish complexion
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Furtive
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Crafty; cunning
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Garbled
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Distort the meaning of a statement or fact by only selecting certain part
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Garish
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Showy; over-decorated
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Garrulous
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Garrulous
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Genial
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Sociable; hospitable; friendly
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Girth
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Circumference
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Haphazard
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Without a plan or a direction
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Imbue
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To inspire with feelings or opinions
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Immutable
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Unable to change
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Impassive
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Emotionless; showing no feeling
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Impudence
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Impoliteness; discourtesy
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Inane
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Absurd; foolish
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Inchoate
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Just formed; undeveloped
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Incorrigible
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Not capable of being corrected; cannot get out of a bad habit
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Indigent
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Needy; penniless
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Infallible
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Not capable of failing
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Insipid
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Without flavor; tasteless
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Intractable
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Unmanageable; not easily controlled
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Irascible
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Irritable; short-tempered; easily annoyed
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