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88 Cards in this Set
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lackadaisical
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listless
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consecrate
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sanctify
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disapprobation
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condemnation
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preponderance
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superiority in power
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hermetic
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airtight
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adventitious
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accidental
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unctuous
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ingratiating
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fey
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slightly insane
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fastidious
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hard to please, careful attention to detail
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lucent
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softly radiant
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ineffable
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speakable
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staid
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in one place
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quiescent
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in one place
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multifarious
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many sided
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specious
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possible but false
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entrench
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secure
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bereaved
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deprive through death
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supercilious
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showing arrogant superiority
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uxorious
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doting
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portentous
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ominous
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intaglio
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lowered design
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ameliorate
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to improve
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farcical
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ridiculous
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insouciant
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casual
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abstemious
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sparing in consumption or drink
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ubiquitous
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omnipresent
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gamut
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complete extent
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ignominy
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disgrace
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amorphous
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shapeless, undefined
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vicarious
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enjoyed through experiences of another
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decimate
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annihilate
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maelstrom
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turbulence
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junta
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military group who rule country after seizing power
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glib
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marked by lack of intellectual depth
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penitent
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feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds, contrite
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scud
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act of moving quickly
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akin
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similar, related in character
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ire
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strong emotion, feeling towards opposed grievance
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didacatic
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instructive excessively
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desultory
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disconnected
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edifice
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building
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ascertain
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determine, find out
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progeny
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offspring
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dissonant
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cacophonous
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taciturn
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uncommunitave
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fraught
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marked by distress
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laconic
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brief and to the point
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diurnal
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active during day
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erudite
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showing profound knowledge, scholarly
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petulant
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captious, tending to find faults
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garish
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gaudy
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prosaic
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not imaginative, matter of fact
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exultation
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jubilation
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lascivious
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driven by lust
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vagary
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unexpected and inexplicable change in something
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dilatory
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inclined to waste time and lag behind
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bellicose
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combative
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atavistic
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primitive
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sententious
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given to pompous moralizing
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tantamount
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being equal to something
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recalcitrant
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stubborn resistance, defiant of authority
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jingoist
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chauvinist, extreme nationalist
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encomium
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cause to accept
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vociferous
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noisy
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cavil
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evasion of point of argument by raising irrelevant objectory
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proclivity
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inclination
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dessicate
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lacking vitality
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bestial
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brutish
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vagary
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unexpected change
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meretricious
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relating to a prostitute, flashy
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sententious
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given to pompous moralizing
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peremptory
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miserable, poor quality
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execrable
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high dominating
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sally
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rush out
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inure
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cause to accept
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inchoate
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imperfectly normal
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charlatan
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quack, crazy
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autonomous
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self reliant
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wrest
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obtain by seizing forcefully
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clemency
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mildness, mercifulness
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overt
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open and observable
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unanimity
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everyone being of one mind
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paragon
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idol
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emolument
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compensation reeived by virtue of holding an office
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ignoble
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lacking nobility
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salient
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prominent
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obviate
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eliminate
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inscrutable
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cryptic
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