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75 Cards in this Set
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maladroit |
clumsy, bungling
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malleable
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yielding; easily shaped; moldable
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mendacity
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dishonesty
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mendicant
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a beggar
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mercurial
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quick, changeable in character, fleeting
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mitigate
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appease, lessen,
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mollify
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soothe
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morose
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gloomy, sullen
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mundane
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commonplace, everyday
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nadir
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bottom, the lowest point
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nascent
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coming into existence, emerging
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nexus
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a connection, tie, or link
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nice
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precise, sensitive to subtleness
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obdurate
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stubborn, inflexible
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obfuscate
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darken, make obscure, muddle
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obtain
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acquire
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obtrusive
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projecting, prominent,
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ostensible
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seeming, appearing as such
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overweening
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overbearing, immoderate
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paradigm
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a model, example, or pattern
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pariah
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an outcast, a rejected and despised person
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partisan
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one-sided, committed to a party, biased or prejudiced
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paucity
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scarcity, lack
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pedestrian
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commonplace, trite, unremarkable
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penchant
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strong inclination, a liking
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pernicious
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deadly, very destructive
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personable
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pleasing in appearance, attractive
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petrify
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to make hard, rocklike
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petulant
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impatient, irritable
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pragmatic
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practical, favoring utility
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precarious
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uncertain, risky, dangerous
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precepts
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rules establishing standards of conduct
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prevaricate
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to equivocate, to stray from the truth
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pristine
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primitive, unspoiled
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pugnacious
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contentious, quarrelsome, belligerent
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rapacious
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voracious, greedy, plundering
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recidivism
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relapse into antisocial or criminal behavior
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render
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deliver, provide, represent
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reprobate
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person hardened in sin; one devoid of decency
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repudiate
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disown, disavow, reject as untrue
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resigned
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unresisting, submissive
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reticent
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reserved, untalkative, silent, taciturn
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rubric
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heading, title, or category
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sagacious
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having sound judgment; perceptive, wise; like a sage
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salacious
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obscene
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salient
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prominent, protruding, conspicuous, highly relevant
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sodden
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soaked, saturated
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sophistry
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fallacious reasoning, faulty logic
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sophomoric
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self-assured though immature, lacking maturity
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spurious
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false, counterfeit
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squalid
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foul, filthy
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stanch
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to stop the flow of a fluid
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succor
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assistance, relief in time of distress
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sundry
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various, miscellaneous, separate
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sycophant
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flatterer, parasite; a suck-up
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taciturn
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untalkative, silent
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tautology
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a repetition, a redundancy
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tawdry
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cheap, gaudy, showy, tacky
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tenacity
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firmness, persistency
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tenuous
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unsubstantial, flimsy, weak
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transient
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temporary, fleeting
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truculence
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aggressiveness, ferocity
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turbid
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muddy, having the sediment stirred up
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umbrage
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offense, resentment
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undulate
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to move in wavelike fashion, fluctuate
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untoward
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perverse, unruly, unseemly
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upbraid
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reprove, reproach
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urbane
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elegant, refined in manners
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venal
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corruptible, open to bribery
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verisimilitude
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appearing true or real
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veritable
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unquestionable, true
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volatile
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changeable, inconstant, fickle, unstable, explosive |
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welter
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turmoil; a bewildering jumble
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wend
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to go, proceed
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zenith
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top, the highest point |
