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70 Cards in this Set
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abject
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base contemptible
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aesthetic
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sesitive or repsonsive to beauty
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badniage
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light and playful conversation
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behemoth
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a creature of enormous size,power or appearance
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cacophonous
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harsh sounding,raucous, discordant dissonant
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charlatan
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pretender impostor quack
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cognizant
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aware, knowledgable
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coherent
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holding or sticking together
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collusion
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secret agreement or cooperation
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complicity
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involvement in wrong doing
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decimate
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to kill or destroy a large part of
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deign
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to condesend
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delineate
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to protray sketch or describe in an accurate and vivid detail
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deprecate
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to be little
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devious
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done or acting in a shift or underhanded way
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disarray
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disorder and confusion
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discomfit
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to confuse, perplex or embarrase
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dissemble
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to disguise or conceal diliberatly give a false impression
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dissidence
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a difference of opinion
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distraught
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very much agiatated or upset as a result of emotion or mental conflict
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ebullient
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overflowing wiht enthusiasm and excitement
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eclectic
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ones whoses beliefs are drawn from many sources
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embellish
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to improve by adding details
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ephemeral
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lasting only a short while, short lived
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ethereal
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light airy delicate
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euphemism
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a mild or inoffensive expression used in placed of a harsh or unpleasant one
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exacerbate
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to make more violent severe bitter or painful
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facade
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a surface appearance
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fatuous
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silly vapid inane doltish and vacuous
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fecund
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intellectual productive
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fraught
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full or loaded with
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garish
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glaring tastlessly showy
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germane
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relevant appropriate apropos fitting
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glean
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to gather bit by bit
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gregarious
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living together ina heard
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halcyon
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calm peaceful legendary bird
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histrionic
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theatrical artificial
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idiosyncrasy
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a peculiarty that serves to distiguish or identity
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ignominy
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shame or disgrace
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illusionry
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lacking in or not based on reality
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imminent
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impending looming
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impeccable
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faultless beyond criticism or blame
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imperturbable
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not easily excited
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improvident
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not thrifty
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inane
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vapid idiotic moronic fatuous
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incendiary
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tending to stir up strife or rebellion
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indubitable
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unquestionable indisputable
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inexorable
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inflexible beyond influence unyielding unstoppable
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iniquity
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wickedness sin
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innate
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natural inborn inherent
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inordinate
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far too great exceedng reasonable limits excessive
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insatiable
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unquenchable ravenous voracious
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intermittent
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stopping and beginnin again sporadic
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intransigent
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refusing to compromise
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inure
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to toughen harden
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invidious
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offensive hateful
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inviolable
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of such a character that it must not be broken injured or profaned
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irrefutable
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impossible to disprove
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irreparable
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incapable of being repaired or rectified
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laconic
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concise using few words
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ludicrous
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ridiciouls laughable absurd
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luminous
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emitting or reflecting light glowing
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machination
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a plot scheme maneuver
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mendacious
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given to lying or deception
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mundane
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earthly worldly relation to practical and material affairs
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nascent
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having jut come into existence
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obsequious
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marked by slavish attentiveness
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pejorative
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expressing disapproval or disparagement derogatory deprecatory belittling
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taciturn
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habitually silent or quiet inclined to talk very little
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unremitting
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consant incessant unrelenting
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