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48 Cards in this Set
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Adulation
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High Praise
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Amicable
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Friendly, agreeable
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Assiduous
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Persistent, hard working
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Censure
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To criticize harshly
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Circuitous
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Indirect; taking a long route
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Clairvoyant
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Ability to see into the future
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Collaborate
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To cooperate, work together
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Deleterious
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Harmful, destructive, detrimental
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Demagogue
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Rabble-rouser, leader
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Digression
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To stray from the main point
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diligent
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Hard-working
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Disdain
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To regard with contempt
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Divergent
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Separating
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Empathy
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Sharing feeling
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Emulate
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To imitate
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Enervating
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Weakening, tiring
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Ephemeral
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Momentary, fleeting, transient
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Evanescent
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Quickly fading, short lived
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Extenuating
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Lessening the seriousness of a crime
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Fortuitous
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Happening by luck, fortunate
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Impetuous
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Rash, impulsive, acting without thinking
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impute
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To attribute an action to particular person or group
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intrepid
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fearless
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Jubilation
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Joy, celebration
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Mundane
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ordinary, commonplace
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opulent
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wealthy
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orator
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lecturer, speaker
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ostentatious
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Show-offish
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perfidious
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Faithless, disloyal
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Precocious
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Unusually advanced or talented at an early age
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Pretentious
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Pretending to be important, intelligent or cultured
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Prosaic
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Relating to prose; dull, commonplace
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Provocative
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Tending to provoke a response
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Prudent
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Careful, cautious
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Querulous
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Complaining, irritable
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Rancorous
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Full of hate
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Reclusive
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Preferring to live in isolation
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Reconciliation
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The resolution of a dispute
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Reverence
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Worship, profound respect
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Sagacity
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Wisdom
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Spurious
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Lacking authenticity, false
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Substantiate
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To verify, confirm
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Surreptitious
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Secret, stealthy
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Tactful
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Considerate
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transient
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fleeting
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Venerable
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Respectable because of age
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vindicate
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To clear from blame or suspicion
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Wary
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Careful
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