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65 Cards in this Set
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Hindrance
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Obstacle; Impediment
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Cognizant
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Aware
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Expedient
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Self Serving; Convenient
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Lavish
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Extravagant
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Negligent
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Carless
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Scrutinize
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To Examine
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Kindle
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To stir up; Arouse
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Appall
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To horrify; Dismay
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Ludicrous
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Laughable
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Commiserate
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To sympathize; Express compassion
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Duplicity
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Deliberate deceptiveness; deceit
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Equivocal
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Opent to more than one interpretation and often intended to mislead
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Uniform
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All or always the same; Without varitey
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Contract
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To reduce in size; become compressed
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Clamor
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A loud outcry; Hubbub
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Hindrance
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Obstacle; Impediment
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Cognizant
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Aware
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Expedient
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Self Serving; Convenient
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Lavish
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Extravagant
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Negligent
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Carless
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Scrutinize
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To Examine
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Kindle
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To stir up; Arouse
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Appall
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To horrify; Dismay
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Ludicrous
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Laughable
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Commiserate
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To sympathize; Express compassion
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Duplicity
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Deliberate deceptiveness; deceit
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Equivocal
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Opent to more than one interpretation and often intended to mislead
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Uniform
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All or always the same; Without varitey
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Contract
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To reduce in size; become compressed
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Clamor
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A loud outcry; Hubbub
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Untenable
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Unable to be held or defended; insupportable
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Stagnant
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Not moving; Not flowing; Motionless
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Vilify
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To make abusive statements about
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Rescind
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To repeal; take back
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Irresolute
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Uncertain how to think or act; undecided
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Apocryphal
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Of doubtful authenticity; not genuine
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Desultory
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Moving from one thing to another in an unplanned way
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Loquacious
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very talkative
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Affable
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Friendly; easy to get along with
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Irascible
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easily angered; irritable
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opaque
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difficult to understand or explain; obsure; incomprehensible
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Recapitulate
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To summarize or repeat breifly
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obtuse
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slow to understand; dull
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paucity
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a scarcity; an insufficiency
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garbled
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mixed up to such an extent as to be misleading or imcomprehensible
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accolade
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praise
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ediface
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a building, especially of large, imposing size
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infraction
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a breaking of a law or rule
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diatribe
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a bitter, abusively critical speech or piece of writing
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assuage
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to relieve or lessen
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somber
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solemn; sad and depressing; melancoly
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censure
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blame; a rebuke
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gravity
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severity; weighty importance
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profane
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showing disrespect or contempt of sacred things
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cacophony
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harsh, discordant sounds
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enmity
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hatred
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peruse
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to examine; read with great care
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erroneous
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mistaken
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recluse
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a person who leads a solitary life; a person who withdrawls from other
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blasphemy
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disrespect towards something sacred or important; irrevenernce
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renounce
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to reject; give up; cast off
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languish
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to lose strength; fail in health; be weak
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incite
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to stir up
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heretic
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a person who holds unopoular or unaccepted beliefs; dissenter nonconformist
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garner
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to collect
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