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20 Cards in this Set
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Impediment
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Obstacle
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Confounding
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Confusing; puzzling
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Succinctly
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Briefly; concisely
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Opaque
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Obscure; unintelligible
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Buttress
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To suport
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Rebut
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To present opposing evidence or argument
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Thesis
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Proposition put forward for consideration
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Critique
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Critical commentary
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Camaraderie
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Good will and rapport among friends
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Negligible
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Not significant enough to be worth considering
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Paradigm
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Model
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Lethargic
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Sluggish, dull
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Retrospect
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Looking back at the past
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Perturbed
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Greatly disturbed
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Empirical
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Derived from observation of experiment
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Evince
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To show Ccearly
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Unbiased
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Impartial
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Circumlocution
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Indirect way of saying something
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Eschew
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To avoid
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Chide
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To scold
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