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54 Cards in this Set
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debacle
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fiasco
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travesty
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distorted example
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gall
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annoy
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vex
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annoy
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conciliate
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sooth
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impugn
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attack someone for being false
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extol
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to praise highly
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stolid
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unemotional
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temporal
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related to time / secular
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forsake
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abandon
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capricious
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rash
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unassuming
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modest
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audacious
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bold
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innocuous
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harmless
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tawdry
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cheap looking
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precocious
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advanced beyond one's years
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vivacious
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lively
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insipid
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boring
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resplendent
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brilliant
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incandescent
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glowing
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spate
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large number of
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dearth
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absense
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unencumbered
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unburderned
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eminent
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well known
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facetious
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off-color humor
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abstruse
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difficult to understand
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corpulence
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obesity
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abound
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filled with
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redolent
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aromatic / suggestive
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commendable
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worthy of praise
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haranguing
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lecturing
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intemperate
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extreme, inappropriate
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facile
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false / easy
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imperious
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dominant
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inscrutable
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hard to understand
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convivial
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fond of partying
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histrionic
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overly dramatic
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solicitous
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caring / anxiety
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insular
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isolated
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autocrat
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one who rules with unlimited authority
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toadie
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suck up
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sycophant
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suck up
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callous
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hard
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arable
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fit for plowing
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viscous
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slow flowing
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palliative
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soothe
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depreciatory
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demean
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compendious
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concise
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nemesis
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enemy
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demonstrative
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showing emotions
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somber
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gloomy
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wistful
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longing
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floridity
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ornate
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irrepressible
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cannot be constrained
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