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16 Cards in this Set
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Admiring |
Regarding something or somebody with feelings of pleasure, approval, and often, wonder |
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Apprehensive |
Anxious, worried, nervous, uneasy |
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Arrogant |
Making claims or pretensions to superior importance or rights; overbearingly assuming; insolently proud |
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Benevolent |
Showing kindness or goodwill; good or charitable |
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Bitinf |
Cold enough to cause discomfort or pain; sarcastic and clever; sharp and piercing |
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Candid |
Honest or direct; free from prejudice or bias |
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Clinical |
Practical and unemotional; scientific; detached |
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Colloquial |
Informal use of language to create the effect of conversation; the way a language is ordinarily and naturally used by its native speakers |
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Determined |
Feeling or showing firmness or a fixed purpose; resolute, staunch, resolved |
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Elegiac |
Expressing sorrow or regret; a lament for someone who has died; mournful or reflective |
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Wry |
A mixture of amusement and irony; twisted, distorted, contrary, or perverse |
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Cogent |
Convincing; reasonable |
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Didactic |
Intended to instruct |
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Fluis |
Easily flowing |
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Anachronism |
Something out of place in time or sequence |
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Anthropomorphism |
The attribution of human like characteristics to inanimate objects, animals, or forces of nature |
