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12 Cards in this Set
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diligent
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constant in effort to accomplish something; attentive and persistent in doing anything (eager, constant, sedulous)
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doleful
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sorrowful, mournful, melancholy. filled iwth or expressing grief. woeful
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ghastly
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shockingly frightful; horrible, terrifying, resembling a ghost, unearthly [the man had a ghastly look to his face]
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hamper
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to hold back, hinder, impede, to interger with, traverse, shackle, handcuff [a steady rain BLANK the progress of the work]
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hew
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to strike with cutting blows, to make shape with or as if with an ax [hewed down by the storm]
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improvished
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reduces to poverty. to make poor quaility. necessityous, beggarly, broke, deprived [a country BLANK by war]
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incessant
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continuing without interruption, ceasless, unending, nonstop, unrealenting, persistent [an BLANK noise]
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intricate
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having many unterrelated parts or facets. complex, complex, complicated, difficult, tangled [an BLANK maze]
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lucid
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easily understood. rational, clear understanding or perception, distinct, see-through [a BLANK explanation]
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posthumous
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arsing, occuring, continuing after ones death, born after the death of a father[a BLANK novel]
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prim
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formally precise or proper, excessively decorous, priggish, spruce, formal, prissy
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sardonic
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charactrized by bitter or scornful derision, mocking, cynical, sneering, mean[ a BLANK grin]
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