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37 Cards in this Set
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obsequious
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marked by fake attentiveness
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conciliating
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becoming friendly or agreeaboe
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pliant
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easily influenced, pliable
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malleable
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capable of being altered or controlled by outside influences
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tribulation
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difficulties - a trying experience
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termagant
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overbearing,shrewish, ill natured
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insuperable
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incapable of being overcome
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assiduity
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diligence
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pestilent
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deadly
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torrent
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a violent streem of liquid
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dinning
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assailingwith loud continued noise
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adherent
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a follower or a leader
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rubicund
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to be red, ruddy
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incessantly
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continuing w/out interrupion
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vehemently
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marked by forceful energy, intensely emotional
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tranquilly
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calmly
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emit
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to throw or give off or out (as in light)
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placid
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calm, complacent
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approbation
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proof; an act of approving formally or officially
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assemblage
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a collection of persons of things; gathering
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august
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marked by majestic dignity
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virago
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a loud overbearing woman;
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precipice
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a very steep overhanging, a hazardous situation
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alacrity
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promptness in response; cheerful readiness
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transient
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passing through w/only a brief stay
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azure
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the blue color of the sky
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visage
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face
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uncouth
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not known or not familiar, strange or clumsy
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countenances
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bearing;demeanor;expression
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reiterate
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to state or do over again
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tendrils
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a slender coiling of leaf or stem which attaches a climbing plant to its support
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scoff
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to show contempt by acts of language
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connubial
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of or relating to the married state
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scepter
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a staff or baton carried by a sovereign as an emblem of authority
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phlegm
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mucus in the respiratory passages; calm strength
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haranguing
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make a ranting speech
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shrew
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an ill-tempered,scolding woman
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