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15 Cards in this Set
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irritable, easily angered
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irascible
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humorous, funny, jocular
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facetious
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forceful, effective, vigorous; extremely perceptive, incisive
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trenchant
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to hinder, obstruct, or block
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stymie
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unwillingness to compromise, stubbornness, intractability
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intransigence
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worldly as opposed to spiritual; commonplace, everyday
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mundane
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appease, lessen, propitiate
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mitigate
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difficult to comprehend; obscure
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abstruse
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to roam, wander freely
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expatiate
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appease, mitigate
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propitiate
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to assuage, to satisfy, allay
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slake
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argumentative, pugnacious, combative, quarrelsome
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contentious
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incapable of being discovered or understood
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inscrutable
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a lament, a melancholy composition
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elegy
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unoriginal, obtained from another source
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derivative
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