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41 Cards in this Set
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solace
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to make cheerful
to give solace to make cheerful |
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wary
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marked by keen caution, cunning, and watchfulness especially in detecting and escaping danger
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pliant
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easily influenced
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pelted
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to strip off the skin of an animal
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incoherent
in·co·her·ent |
lacking normal clarity or intelligibility in speech or thought
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provoke
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to arouse to a feeling or action
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annihilated
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to cause to be of no effect
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dissemination
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to spread abroad
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dereliction
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an international ambandoment
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retort
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to torture
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perverse
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turned away from what is right
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meek
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mild
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leaden
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made of lead
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blithely
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happy light headed character or disposition
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inimical
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hostile/unfriendly
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chary
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something dear or treasured to someone
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usurped
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to seize or hold
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immutable
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not compatible to change
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atypical
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not typical
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indigenous
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innate/inborn
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volubly
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easily rolling
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impertinent
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irrelivent
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classless
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with out class
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spinster
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unmarried women
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minority
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the smaller group overall of the other groups
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pretentious
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making unjustified claims
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winnowed
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to remove by current of air
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pious
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sacred or devotional
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spurious
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somthing that is false
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eclectic
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composed of elements drawn from various sources
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invidoius
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tending to cause discontent
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impromptu
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musical composition suggestion improvision
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dogmatic
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characterized by or given to the expression of opinions very strongly or positively as if they were facts
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clandestine
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marked by, held in, or conducted with secrecy
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reticent
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inclined to be silent or uncommunicative in speech
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sanguine
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consisting of or relating to blood
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dogmatism
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positiveness in assertion of opinion especially when unwarranted or arrogant
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autonomous
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of, relating to, or marked by autonomy
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intransigence
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the quality or state of being intransigent
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ambiguous
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doubtful or uncertain especially from obscurity or indistinctness
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idyllic
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pleasing or picturesque in natural simplicity
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