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80 Cards in this Set
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Caprice
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Impulsive behavior or notion
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For some reason here I think of a capering deer being impulsive....
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Mien
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Appearance
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Fastidious
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Difficult to satisfy; stubborn
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Pliant
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Easily influenced; yielding; easy to bend
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Assail
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To attack violently with words or blows
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Abjure
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To recant, renounce, or repudiate
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Alacrity
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Promptness in response; readiness
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Ductility
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Capable of being fashioned; easily influenced
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Duct tape prom dresses. :) Height of fashion.
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Felicity
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A pleasing manner or quality
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Pedantic
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Ostentatiously learned
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Induce
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To motivate an action
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Induced birth.
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Archly
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Brashly
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Insipid
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Tasteless
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Abrogate
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To abolish, do away with, or annul by authority
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Abrogate the practice of English quizzes. :P
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Accost
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To approach aggressively
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Stricture
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A close restraint or limit
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Effusion
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Unrestrained expression of words or feelings
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Indolent
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Habitually lazy
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She is so indolent she doesn't type her own notes.
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Celerity
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Rapidity of motion or action
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Abstemious
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Moderate in drinking and eating
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Abstaining from doughnuts would be wise.
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Acumen
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Quickness or keenness of judgment or action
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Panegyric
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Formal or elaborate praise
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Auspicious
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Attended by favorable circumstances; marked by success, prosperous
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Reproof
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Criticism of fault
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Belie
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To misrepresent; to represent falsely
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Obstinate
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Not easily persuaded
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Bellicose
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Warlike; hostile
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Precipitance
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Undue nastiness
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Bowdlerize
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To remove objectionable or offensive material
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Appertain
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To be relevant
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Deference
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Affected regard for one's wishes
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Jack Frost exhibits deference.
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Chicanery
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Deception by trickery
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Expostulation
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The act of discussing to dissuade
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Approbation
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Praise
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Diffuse
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To scatter
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Implacable
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Not capable of being appeased or changed
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Churlish
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Vulgar
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Circumlocution
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The act of unnecessary wordy and indirect language
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Propitious
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Benevolent
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Laconic
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Concise
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Iniquitous
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Characterized by wickedness
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Asperity
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Uneven
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Obsequious
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Exhibiting an affected/fawning attentiveness
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Circumnavigate
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To proceed completely around
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Insolent
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Insulting contemptuous
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Veracity
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Devotion to truth or accuracy
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Imprudent
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Not practical
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Enumerate
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To count or list
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Ingratiate
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To gain favorable acceptance by deliberate effort
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Languor
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Sluggishness
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Diffident
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Distrustful; unconfident
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Purport
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To profess
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Deciduous
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Falling off or shedding; not lasting; ephemeral
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Deleterious
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Dangerous; having a harmful effect
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Injunction
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An order, or the act of
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Coquetry
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Flirtation
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Dissemble
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To put on the appearance of
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Dawdle
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Spend time idly; aimlessness
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Assiduous
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Marked by close attention
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Enervate
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To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of
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Enfranchise
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To free; to endow with the rights of citizenship
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Peevish
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Marked by ill-temper
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Despond
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To become discouraged or hopeless
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Expedient
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Appropriate to seize or capture opportunity
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Incumbent
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Imposed as a duty; obligatory
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Rectitude
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Moral integrity
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Pertinent
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Relevant
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Odious
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Deserving hatred or repugnance
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Repine
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To feel or express discontent
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Epiphany
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A revelation; a sudden manifestation of meaning or essense
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Defection
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Desertion
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Vexatious
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Distressing; troubling
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Evanescent
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Vanishing; short lived
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Expurgate
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To remove erroneous, objectionable, vulgar material from publication
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Facetious
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Playfully jocular; humorous
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Fatuous
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Foolish or silly in a smug or self-satisfying way
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Affable
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Friendly
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Prodigious
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Enormous
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Officious
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Informal
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Derision
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The act of ridicule
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