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30 Cards in this Set
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Staccato
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Composed of or characterized by abruptly disconnected element; disjointed:rapid-fire, staccato speech.
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Palates
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Intellectual or aesthetic taste; mental appreciation
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Harbor
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To keeper hold in mind; maintain; entertain
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Quarry
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Any object of search, pursuit, or attack
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Report
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A load noise, as from an explosion
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Stamina
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Strength of physical constitution; power to endure disease, fatigue, privation
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Placidly
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Having an undisturbed surface, calm, peaceful
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Condoling
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To mourn
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Visage
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The face or facial expression
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Keenly
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Intellectually acute
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Trifle
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A small amount of something
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Resignation
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The acceptance of despair
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Subdued
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Quieted and brought under control
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Apathetically
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Feeling or showing little or no emotion
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Groping
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To reach about uncertainly
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Frivolous
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Unworthy of serious attention
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Avaricious
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Desirous of wealth, greedy
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Credulity
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A disposition to believe to readily
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Furtively
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Expressive of hidden motives or purposes
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Profuse
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Plentiful, copious
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Boisterous
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Rough and stormy; violent
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Reprinted
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A severe, formal, or official rebuke or censure
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Jovial
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Marked by hearty conviviality and good cheer
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Interminable
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Being or seeing to be without an end, endless, tiresomely,long, tedious
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Defiant
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Bold and resisting authority or opposing force
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Careen
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Of a vehicle to lean, sway or tip to one side while in motion
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Imminent
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Likely to occur at any moment, impending
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Doggedness
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Persistent in effort, stubbornly tenacious
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Reiterate
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To stay or do again or repeatedly, repeat, often excessively
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Precariously
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Exposed to or involving danger, dangerous, perilous, risky
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