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30 Cards in this Set
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Courtesan
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noun
prostitute with a noble or wealthy clientele |
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Subservient
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adj.
servile; excessively submissive; obsequious |
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Supple
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adj.
flexible; characterized by ease, responsive, and adaptability in mental action |
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Indolent
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adj.
lazy |
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Assiduous
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adj.
industrious; energetic |
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Ennui
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noun
boredom |
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Insipid
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adj.
uninteresting; tasteless; dull |
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Acquisitiveness
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noun
tending or seeking to acquire and own, often greedily; eager to get wealth, possessions |
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Inertia
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noun
inertness, especially with regard to effort, motion, action and the like; inactivity; sluggishness |
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Servile
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adj.
obedient to a slavish extent; slavishly submissive or obsequious fawning |
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Presentiment
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noun
strong intuition |
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Transitoriness
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noun
not lasting, enduring, permanent, or eternal; evanescence |
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Exhortation
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noun
an utterance, discourse, or address conveying urgent advice or recommendations; warning |
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Equanimity
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noun
mental or emotional stability or composure, especially under tension or strain; calmness |
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Communicable
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adj.
able to be taught or told |
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Erudition
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noun
knowledge acquired by study, research, etc.; learning, scholarship |
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Dispelled
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verb
to rid one's mind of; to drive away or off by or as if by scattering |
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Senile
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adj.
weak or dotting from old age |
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Serenity
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noun
great calm; perfect peace |
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Recurred
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verb
to happen again or repeatedly |
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Tenacity
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noun
stubborn refusal to yield |
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Perplexity
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noun
puzzlement or confusion |
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Pallid
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adj.
extremely pale |
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Precocious
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adj.
unusually advanced or mature in development, especially mental development; prematurely developed, as in the mind |
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Futile
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adj.
vain; useless |
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Expiation
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noun
act of making reparation for sin |
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Unfathomable
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adj.
difficult or impossible to understand |
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Respite
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noun
temporary intermission or rest |
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Palliative
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adj.
something that can lessen pain or cure disease |
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Ostracized
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verb
excluded |