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23 Cards in this Set
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Acute |
sharp or severe in effect; intense |
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Vexed |
Irritated; annoyed |
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Sagacity |
acuteness of mental discernment and soundness of judgment. |
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Refrained |
to abstain from an impulse to say or do something |
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Wary |
watchful; being on one's guard against danger. |
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Suavity |
Smoothly agreeable quality |
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Audacity |
boldness or daring, especially with confident or arrogant disregard for personal safety, conventional thought, or other restrictions. |
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Gesticulations |
An animated or excited gesture |
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Derision |
An object of ridicule |
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Dissimulation |
The act of feigning; hypocrisy |
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Vain |
excessively proud of or concerned about one's own appearance, qualities, achievements, etc.; conceited: |
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Mortal |
subject to death; having a transitory life: |
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Awe |
an overwhelming feeling of reverence, admiration, fear, etc., produced by that which is grand, sublime, extremely powerful, or the like: |
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Suppositions |
something that is supposed; assumption; hypothesis. |
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Profound |
penetrating or entering deeply into subjects of thought or knowledge; having deep insight or understanding: |
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Bade |
a simple past tense of bid. |
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Definitive |
most reliable or complete, as of a text, author, criticism, study, or the like: |
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Hypocritical |
Of the nature of hypocrisy, or pretense of having virtues, beliefs, or principals, that one does not actually possess. |
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Anxiety |
distress or uneasiness of mind caused by fear of danger or misfortune: |
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Vehemently |
Zealous, ardent, impassioned |
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Waned |
to decrease in strength, intensity, etc |
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Cunning |
skill employed in a shrewd or sly manner, as in deceiving; craftiness; guile. |
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Enveloped |
to wrap up in or as in a covering: |
