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45 Cards in this Set
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abase
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lower in rank or prestige
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abstruse
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difficult to understand
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alacrity
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promptness in response
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chicanery
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trickery
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dirge
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a funeral hymn
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dilatory
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habitually late
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ebullience
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intense enthusiasm
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effrontery
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brazen boldness; presumptousness
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fastidious
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attentive to detail
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hackneyed
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worn out through overdose
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ignominy
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great dishonor or embarrassment
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jocular
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in joking manner
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loquacious
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very talkative
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lugubrious
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mornful; gloomy
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mendacious
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lying
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modicum
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small amount
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multifarious
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diverse; various
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obsequious
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fawning and servile
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pejorative
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belitting; insulting
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perspicacious
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discerning
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quiescent
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quiet or inactive
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sanctimonious
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feigning piety or rightfulness
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sanguine
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cheerfully confident
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soporific
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inducing sleep
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vituperative
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marked by harshly abusive condemnation
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self effacing
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keeping oneself in the background; humility
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audacious
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fearless
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prose
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common place or common/dull expression
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nostalgia
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wish to return to a past life
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indulgent
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very lenient
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disparaging
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tendency to belittle
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ambivalance
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uncertainty; indecisiveness
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capacious
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capable of holding much
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ostentatious
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intended to attract
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capricious
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led by
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mitigated
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to lessen in force
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bureaucratization
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to divide an agency into bureaus
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superlative
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of highest quality
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dubious
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doubtful
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eradicatation
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complete elimination of evidence
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impenetrability
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difficult to understand
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scathing
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bitter remark
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versimilitude
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appearence of truth; honesty
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ambivalent
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having mixed feeling or emotions
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transcendence
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rises beyind the scope of ordinary experience
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