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56 Cards in this Set
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willing to follow advice or authority, tractable, submissive; responsive; liable to be held responsible
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amendable
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to scold sharply
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berate
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large-scale slaughter or loss of life
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carnage
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too ready to believe, easily deceived
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credulous
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a rule, test, a standard for judgement or evaluation
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criterion
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to use up as a result of spending or consumption; to diminish greatly
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deplete
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to expand on, write or talk at length or in detail, to move about freely
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expatiate
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coming from the outside, foreign, present but not essential, irrelevant
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extraneous
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the beginning,start, earliest stage of some process, institution
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inception
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a weakness, or ailment (mental, physical, moral)
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infirmity
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lacking in nutritive value, lacking in interest or substance; immature, juvenile
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jejune
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stubborn, unyielding
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obdurate
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a collection of diverse or micellaneous items, a general mixture; petals mized with spices for scent
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potpourri
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showing unusually early development, (especially in talents or mental capacity)
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precocious
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delighting in cruelty, excessively cruel
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sadistic
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self-rightous; characterized by moralizing, given to use or maxims or adages; saying much in few words
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sententious
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to beg earnestly and humbly
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supplicate
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an excess or overindulgence; as in eating or drinking, causing disgust
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surfeit
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winding, twisted, crooked, highly involved, complex
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tortuous
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swollen, bloated, filled to excess; overdecorated or excessive in language
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turgid
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S: agreeable, compliant, docile
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amenable
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s: chide, rebuke, reprove, reprimand
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berate
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s: butchery, bloodbath, massacre
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carnage
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s: gullible
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credulous
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s: yardstick, touchstone, gauge, canon
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criterion
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s: exhaust, empty, drain, bankrupt
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deplete
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s: elaborate, enlarge, descant, wander, roam
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expatiate
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s: incidental, extrinsic
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extraneous
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s: commencement, inauguration, outset
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inception
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s: affliction, malady, defect
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infirmity
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s: vapid, insipid, puerile, childish
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jejune
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s: obsinate, adament
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obdurate
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s: hodgepodge, melange, farrago, medley
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potpourri
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s: forward, gifted, advanced
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precocious
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s: brutal, vicious, inhuman, fiendish
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sadistic
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s: aphoristic, epigrammatic, moralistic
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sententious
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s: plead, petition, implore, entreat
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supplicate
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s: excess, glut, cloy, satiate
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surfeit
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s: circuitous, serpentine, labyrinthine
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tortuous
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s: inflated, pompous, bombastic, overblown
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turgid
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a: unresponsive, resistant, recalcitrant
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amenable
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a: praise, compliment, pat on the back
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berate
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a: dubious, skeptical
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credulous
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a: replenish, refill, restock, resupply
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deplete
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a: sketch roughly, summarize, condense, adumerate
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expatiate
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a: intrinsic, relevant, perinent, germane
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extraneous
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a: completion, conclusion, termination
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inception
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a: stimulating, mature
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jejune
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a: yielding, tractable, flexible
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obdurate
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a: homogenuous or uniform group
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potpourri
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a: backward, retarded, slow
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precocious
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a: masochistic, clement, humane, merciful
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sadistic
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a: discursive, diffuse, episodic
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sententious
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a: dearth, paucity, lack
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surfeit
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a: direct, straight, straightforward
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tortuous
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a: muted, understated, unadorned, austere
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turgid
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