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71 Cards in this Set
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Pacific
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Soothing
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Palatable
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Agreeable to the taste or sensibilities
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Palette
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A range of colors or qualities
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Palliate
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To reduce the severity of
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Pallid
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Lacking color
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Panacea
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A remedy for all ills or difficulties
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Paragon
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A model of excellence or perfection
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Pariah
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An outcast
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Parsimony
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Frugality, stinginess
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Partisan
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A follower, adherent
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Patent
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Readily seen or understood, clear, limpid, lucid
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Pathology
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A deviation from the normal
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Pathos
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An emotion of sympathy
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Paucity
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Small in quantity
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Pellucid
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Easily intelligible, clear, patent, limpid, lucid
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Penchant
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A tendency, partiality, preference
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Penultimate
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Next to last
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Penurious
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Miserly, stingy
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Perfidious
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Disloyal, unfaithful
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Perfunctory
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Showing little interest or enthusiasm
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Pernicious
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Extremely destructive or harmful
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Perspicacity
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Shrewdness, perceptiveness
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Pert
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Flippant, bold
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Pertinacious
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Stubbornly persistent
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Perusal
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A careful examination, review
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Pervasive
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Having the tendency to spread throughout
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Petulance
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Rudeness, irritability
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Philanthropic
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Charitable, giving
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Phlegmatic
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Uninterested, unresponsive
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Pithy
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Concisely meaningful, laconic, terse
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Pittance
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A very small amount, especially relating to money, modicum
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Placate
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To ease the anger of, soothe
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Placid
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Calm, peaceful
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Plaudits
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Enthusiastic approval, applause
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Plenitude
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An abundance
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Plethora
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An abundance, excess
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Pliable
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Flexible
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Polemic
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An aggressive argument against a specific opinion
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Portent
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An omen
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Potable
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Suitable for drinking
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Potentate
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One who has great power, a ruler
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Precipice
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The face of a cliff, a steep or overhanging place
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Preclude
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To prevent
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Precocious
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Advanced, developing ahead of time
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Predilection
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A preference or inclination for something
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Preponderance
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Superiority in importance or quantity
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Prepossessing
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Occupying the mind to the exclusion of other thoughts or feelings
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Presage
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An omen
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Prescient
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To have foreknowledge of events
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Prescribe
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To lay down a rule
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Presumptuous
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Disrespectfully bold
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Pretense
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An appearance or action intended to deceive
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Primeval
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Original, ancient
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Privation
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lacking basic necessities
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Probity
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Virtue, integrity
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Proclivity
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A strong inclination toward something
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Procure
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To obtain, acquire
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Proligate
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Dissolute, extravagant
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Promulgate
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To proclaim, make known, blazon
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Propagate
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To multiply, spread out
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Propensity
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An inclination, preference
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Propitious
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Favorable
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Prosaic
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Plain, lacking liveliness
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Proscribe
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To condemn, outlaw
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Protean
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Able to change shape; displaying great variety
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Prurient
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Eliciting or possessing an extraordinary interest in sex
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Puerile
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Juvenile, immature, callow
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Pulchritude
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Physical beauty
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Punctilious
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Eager to follow rules or conventions
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Pungent
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Having a pointed, sharp quality--often used to describe smells
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Punitive
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Involving punishment
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