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41 Cards in this Set
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bliss
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perfect happiness
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blithe
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merry, joyous,heedless
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buoy
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keep afloat, rise spritits of, encourage
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complacency
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self-satisfaction, smugness
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convival
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fond of eating/drinking w/ friends, sociable
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gala
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characterized by festivity
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jocund
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merry, cheerful
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jubilant
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showing great joy, rejoicing, exultant
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ascetic
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shunning pleasures, self-denying, living simply
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chagrin
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embarrassment, mortification, disappointment
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compunction
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regret, remorse, qualm, misgiving
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contrite
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showing deep regret and sorrow for wrongdoing, deeply penitant
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dejected
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sad, in low spirits, depressed
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doleful
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mournful
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glum
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moody, gloomy
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lament
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mourn, deplore
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maudlin
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weekly sentimental and tearful
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pathos
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quality in events or art and literature that arouses our pity
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plight
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unfortunate state, predicament
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poignant
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painfully touching, piercing
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throes
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anguish, pangs
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burly
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strongly and heavily built, husky
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buxom
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plump and attractive
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cherubic
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chubby and innocent looking
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obese
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extremely overweight or corpulant
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pudgy
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short and plump, chubby
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attenuate
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make thin or weaken
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emaciated
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made unnaturally thin because of starvation or illness
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haggard
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careworn, gaunt
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lank
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lean, ungracefully tall
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svelte
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slender, lithe
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adulation
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excessive praise, flattery
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blandishment
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word or deed of mild flattery, allurement, enticement
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cajole
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persuade by pleasant words, wheedle, coax
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curry favor
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seek to gain favor by flattery
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fulsome
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offensive b/c of insincerity, repulsive
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ingratiate
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work oneself into favor
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lackey
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servent, one who carries out another wishes
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obsequious
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showing excessive willingness to do soemthing, fawning
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sychophant
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parasitic flatterer
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truckle
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make a doormat of oneself, famn
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