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50 Cards in this Set
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abstruse
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hard to understand
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aesthetic
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having to do with the appreciation of beauty
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alleviate
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to ease a pain or a burden
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ambiguous
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open to more than one interpretation; having a double meaning
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ambivalent
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simultaneously feeling opposing feelings, such as love and hate;
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amenable
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responsive; agreeable
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amiable
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good-natured and likable
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ample
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describing a large amount of something
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arid
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describing a dry, rainless climate
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assiduous
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hard-working
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asylum
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a place of retreat or security
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benevolent
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kind; generous
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benign
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kind and gentle
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biased
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prejudiced
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brittle
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easily broken when subjected to pressure
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brusque
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describing a rudely abrupt manner
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camaraderie
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good will between friends
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cantankerous
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grumpy; disagreeable
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capricious
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impulsive and unpredictable
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catalog (v)
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to make an itemized list of
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caustic
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bitingly sarcastic or witty
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convoluted
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intricate; complex
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decorous
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proper; marked by good taste
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diligent
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marked by painstaking effort; hard working
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disdain
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to regard or treat with contempt; to look down on
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dubious
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doubtful; of unlikely authenticity
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effusive
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describing unrestrained emotional expression; gushy
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emulate
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to try to equal or excel; especially through initation
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fabricated
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made; concocted in order to deceive
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garrulous
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given to excessive, rambling talk; very talkative
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gregarious
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enjoying the company of others; sociable
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haughty
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condescendingly proud
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impetuous
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characterized by sudden energy or emotion
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inconsequential
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unimportant
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insightful
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perceptive
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intuitive
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knowing or perceiving quickly and readily
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liquid (adj)
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flowing readily
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milk
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to draw or extract profit or advantage from
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nocturnal
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of or occurring in the night; nocturnal animals
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obscure (adj, v)
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relatively unknown; or to conceal or make indistinct
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ostentatious
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describing a showy or pretentious display
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parody
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an artistic work that imitates the style of another work for comic effect
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pervasive
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having the quality or tendency to be everywhere at the same time
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plagiarism
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the act of passing off as one's own the ideas or writings of another
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prophetic
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foretelling or predicting future events
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spurious
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not genuine; facts
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suppressed
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subdued; kept from being circulated
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surreptitious
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done by secretive means
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thwart
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to prevent the occurrence of
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timorous
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shy; timid
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