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40 Cards in this Set
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courteous and pleasent, sociable, east to talk to
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affable
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genial, amicable, agrreable, cordial
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affable
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to increase in greatness, power, or wealth; to build up or intensify; to make appear greater
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aggrandize
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augment, amplify, enhance
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aggrandize
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shapeless, without definite form; of no partiular type or character; without organization, unity, or cohesion
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amorphous
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formless, unstructured, nebulous, inchoate
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amorphous
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that which surrounds (as an atmospher); a distincitve air or personal quality
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aura
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ambience, atmosphere
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aura
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illegal traffic, smuggled goods, illegal, prohibited
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contraband
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illicit, bootleg, unlawful
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contraband
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scholarly, learned, bookish, pedantic
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erudite
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profoundly educated, well-read
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erudite
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thin, light, insubstantial; a very thin, light cloth
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gossamer
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filmy, diaphanous, sheer, airy, feathery, gauzy
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gossamer
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to find out by reasoning; to arrive at a conclusion on the basis of thought; to hint, suggest, imply
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infer
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gather, deduce, presume, guess, specualte
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infer
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incapable of being understood; impossible to see through physically
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inscrutable
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impenetrable, incomprehensible, enigmatic
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inscrtable
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realting to, characteristc of, or situated on an insland; narrow or isolated in outlook or experience
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insular
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narrow-minded, parochial, provincial
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insular
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incapable of being changed ot called back
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irrevocable
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irreversible, unrecallable, unalterable
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irrevocable
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a natural inclination or predilection toward
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propensity
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natural bent, proclivity, penchant
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propentsity
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peevish, complaining, fretful
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querulous
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petualnt, touchym cranky, irratble
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querulous
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to argue or plead with someone againts something, protest against, object to
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remonstrate
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reason against, expostulate
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remonstrate
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to disown, reject, or deny the validity of
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repudiate
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disavow, abjure, renounce
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repudiate
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able to return to an originall shape or form; able to recover quickly
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resilient
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springy, elastic, bouyant, bouncy
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resilient
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to re-echo, resound; to reflect or be reflected repeatedly
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reverberate
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rumble, thunder, boom, echo
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reverberate
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coarsly abusive, vulgar or low (especially in language), foul-mouthed
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scurrilous
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obscene, flithy, abusive, vituperative
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scurrilous
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persistent, showing industry and determintaion
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sedulous
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assiduous, trieless, indefatigable
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sedulous
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thin or flimsy in texture, cheap, shoddy or inferior in quailty or charcter, ethically low, mean, or disreputable
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sleazy
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inferior, cheesy, tawdry, tatty
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sleazy
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