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62 Cards in this Set
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spellbinding
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charming, attracting, captivate, entrance
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founder
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to fill with water and sink, to demolish and sink something, to fail utterly
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reciprocate
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to give or feel in return
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capricious
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given to sudden behavior change
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tenable
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reasonable, arguable, believable
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delusion
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misconception, disbelief
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impugned
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to challenge, criticize
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reconnaissance
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inspection
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decimation
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mass destruction
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spellbinding
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charming, attracting, captivate, entrance
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raiment
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clothing, apparel, attire
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founder
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to fill with water and sink, to demolish and sink something, to fail utterly
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reciprocate
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to give or feel in return
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capricious
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given to sudden behavior change
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tenable
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reasonable, arguable, believable
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delusion
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misconception, disbelief
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impugned
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to challenge, criticize
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reconnaissance
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inspection
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decimation
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mass destruction
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raiment
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clothing, apparel, attire
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cantankerous
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ill-tempered, crabby, difficult
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churlish
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rude
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benevolent
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charitable, kind, compassionate, considerate
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laconic
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short, to the point
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stature
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the height of someone or something, or the degree of development attained, level of achievement reached
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robust
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1) strong and healthy, hardy
2) rude, rough, boisterous |
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corrosive
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1) consuming, biting away
2) nasty, mocking in speech |
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disingenuous
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lacking in sincerity, dishonest
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implacable
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merciless, cruel, ferocious
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phlegmatic
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unemotional
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inclusive
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all-including, embracing, enclosing, including everything concerned
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mundane
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common, ordinary, earthly, worldly
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edifying
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instructive, benefitting
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succinct
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expressed in few words, concise
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aggregation
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a group or mass of distinct or varied things, persons
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prognosis
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a forecast, expectation
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retrenchment
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a cutting down or off, a curtailing of expenses, removal
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preeminence
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superiority
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effusive
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big-mouthed, garrulous, expressive
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tenuous
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weak, thin, delicate
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ineffable
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too great for, or beyond words
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sprawling
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spread out like spider legs, outreaching limb-like, spread out in general
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desolate
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deprived, solitary, lonely, devastated, barren, waisted
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misnomer
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an unsuitable/incorrect name for a person or thing
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vector
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any behavioural influence, force, or drive, in a direction
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stringent
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rigid, tight, high standards, urgent, forcible
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recessive
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tending to go backwards
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dispersive
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tending to disperse
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obtrusive
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blatant, obvious, meddling, nosy
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conditional
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made or allowed on certain terms
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divisive
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creating discord, or forming division
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militant
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vigorously active and aggressive, engaged in warfare/fighting
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fostered
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to promote the growth or development of
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bucolic
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rural, or pertaining to Shepards or agricultural settings
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prolific
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productive in producing abundance of things, fruitful
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lugubrious
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sad, gloomy, excessively mournful
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sundry
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adj: mixed, various, motley, diverse
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remonstrance
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protest
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erudition
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higher education, knowledge acquired from research, study, scholarship
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lassitude
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lethargy, indifference, laziness
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fabrication
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a lie, something not the truth
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chicanery
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trickery, deception
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