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15 Cards in this Set
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tending to comply, obliging, willingness to please
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complaisance
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give notice to, inform
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apprise
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cowardly, craven
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pusillanimous
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controversial, argued
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polemical
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easily understood, lucid, clear
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luculent
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physically painful, distressing, pertinent, touching, stimulating, emotional
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poignant
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cause, produce, give rise to
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engender
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to hide, conceal, disguise
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dissemble
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calmness of temperament
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equanimity
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naive, young, artless, frank, honest, sincere
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ingenuous
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food lover, a connoisseur of food
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epicure
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prominent, protruding, conspicuous, highly relevant
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salient
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not yet fully formed, rudimentary, elementary
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inchoate
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contentious, quarrelsome, contumacious, given to fighting, belligerent
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pugnacious
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urgent, imperative, unchallengeable, ending debate
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peremptory
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