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40 Cards in this Set
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rich, lavish, plentiful, abundant
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opulent
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to ridicule, mock, deride, jeer
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gibe
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carefully, prudently, gingerly
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warily
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to contaminate, pollute, sully
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adulterate
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impassive, phlegmatic, unresponsive
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stolid
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a costume, semblance, a pretense
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guise
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harsh, bleak, forbidding, saturnine
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dour
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provisional, inconclusive
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tentative
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word for word, exact
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verbatim
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sloppy, disheveled, disordered, rough
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unkempt
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resolve, steadfastness, mettle
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fortitude
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a clue, indication, inkling
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intimation
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to gawk, ogle, to open wide
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gape
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deprived, saddened by loss, bereaved
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bereft
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equally skillful with both hands
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ambidextrous
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to enlarge, supplement, amplify
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augment
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to repeat, rehash
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reiterate
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cunning, underhanded, perfidious
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insidious
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to arrange, station, organize
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deploy
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supple, adaptable, resilient
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pliable
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quick, superficial, prefunctory
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cursory
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careful, fastidious, painstaking, fussy
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meticulous
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risk, hazard, peril
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jeopardy
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workable, practible, viable
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feasible
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to revert, to degenerate, decline
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retrogress
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fraud, double-dealing, chicanery
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duplicity
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a configuration, devastation, annihilation
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holocaust
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impenetrabel, resistan, proof against
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impervious
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an impulse, incentive, stimulus, spur
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impetus
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congenial, neighborly, cordial
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benevolent
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a pained expression, facial contortion
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grimace
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lukewarm, insipid, half hearted, wishy-washy
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tepid
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kindly, benign, well-meaning
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amicable
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to inspect, examine, pore over
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scrutinize
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clever, deft,dexterous, slick
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adroit
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to glorify, applaud, acclaim, hail
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extol
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assertive, truculent, pugnacious
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belligerent
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a longing for things past, homesickness
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nostalgia
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disinclined, opposed, loath
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averse
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the purest essence, a paragon, exemplar
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quintessence
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