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70 Cards in this Set
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Abstemious
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Self-denying
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Abstruse
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Difficult to understand;deep
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Astute
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Clever; perceptive
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Aversion
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An instense dislike
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Diminutive
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Much smaller than the average
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Eclectic
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Coming from many sources
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Extraneous
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Not essential; irrelevant
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Hardy
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Tough; strong
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Intractable
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Difficult to manage;hard to contorl; unruly
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Soporific
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Causing sleep
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Abstact
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Theoretical; not applied; not practical
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Archaic
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No longer current; out-of-date
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Engender
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To cause or produce; bring into existence
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Erudite
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Having or showering wide knowledge
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Fevor
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Great warmth or intensity or emotion
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Iconclast
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Someone who attacks traditional ideas; someone who condiders nothing sacred
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Laudable
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Worthy of praise
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Painstkaing
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Showing much care, effort, and hardwork; diligent
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Pompous
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Having an inflated idea of one's own importance; arrogant
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Renown
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Fame
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Convivial
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Fond of social pleasures, merry
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Equanimity
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The quality of staying calm and even-tempered
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Lassitude
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Lacking enthusiasm; sluggish
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Listless
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Lack of engery, weariness; fatigue
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Mollify
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To soothe the temper of
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Paradigm
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An example that serves as a model for others
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Profusion
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An abudnac; a rich supply
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Recalcitrant
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Stubbornly refusing to obey
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Resigned
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Unresisting; passively accepting; accepting as inevitable
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Surmise
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To infer something; guess
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Convivial
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Fond of social pleasures, merry
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Equanimity
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The quality of staying calm and even-tempered
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Lassitude
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Lacking enthusiasm; sluggish
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Listless
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Lack of engery, weariness; fatigue
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Mollify
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To soothe the temper of
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Paradigm
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An example that serves as a model for others
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Profusion
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An abudnac; a rich supply
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Recalcitrant
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Stubbornly refusing to obey
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Resigned
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Unresisting; passively accepting; accepting as inevitable
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Surmise
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To infer something; guess
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Convivial
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Fond of social pleasures, merry
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Equanimity
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The quality of staying calm and even-tempered
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Lassitude
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Lacking enthusiasm; sluggish
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Listless
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Lack of engery, weariness; fatigue
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Mollify
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To soothe the temper of
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Paradigm
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An example that serves as a model for others
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Profusion
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An abudnac; a rich supply
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Recalcitrant
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Stubbornly refusing to obey
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Resigned
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Unresisting; passively accepting; accepting as inevitable
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Surmise
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To infer something; guess
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Ambivalence
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Mixed feelings; uncertainty; indesisiveness
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Anomaly
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ASomething different, odd, or peculiar
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Biased
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Prejudiced
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Credulous
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Tending to believe too reality; easily convinced
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Despot
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A tyrant
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Incipient
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Beginning; early
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Nefarious
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Very wicked; villainous
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Prodigious
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Enormous
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Servile
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Humbly obedient
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Temper
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To reduce in intensity, especially by mixing in some other quality; moderate, soften
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Aduous
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Difficlut to do, strenous
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Ascetic
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Practicing self-denial; austere
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Blithe
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Cheerful and lighthearted
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Deprecate
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To express disapproval of
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Didactic
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Designed to teach
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Eulogy
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A spoken or written tribute, especailyl to someon who has died
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Gratutious
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Uncalled for; without any good reason
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Raze
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To tear down completely; demolish
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Tawdry
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Tastelessly showy; cheap and gausy; vulgar
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Unimpeachable
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Blameless; beyond reproach; beyond critiscism
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