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20 Cards in this Set
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Antics
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n: ridiculous and unpredictable behavior or actions
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Avowed
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adj: declared openly and w/o shame, acknowledged
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Banter
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v: to exchange playful remarks, tease
n: talk that is playful and teasing |
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Bountiful
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adj: giving freely, generous; plentiful, given abundantly
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Congested
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adj: overcrowded, filled or occupied to excess
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Detriment
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n: harm or loss; injury, damage; a disadvantage; a cause of harm, injury, loss, or damage
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Durable
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adj: sturdy, not easily worn out or destroyed; lasting for a long time; n: consumer goods used repeatedly over a series of years
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Enterprising
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adj: energetic, willing and able to start something new; showing boldness and imagination
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Frugal
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adj: economical, avoiding waste and luxury; scanty, poor, meager
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Gingerly
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adj, adv: with extreme care or caution
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Glut
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v: to provide more than is needed or wanted; to feed or fill to the point of overstuffing
n: an oversupply |
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Incognito
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adj, adv: in a disguised state, under an assumed name or identity
n: the state of being disguised; a person in disguise |
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Invalidate
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v: to make valueless, take away all force of effect
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Legendary
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adj: described in well-known stories; existing in old stories
(legends) rather than in real life |
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Maim
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v: to cripple, disable, injure, mar, disfigure, mutilate
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Minimize
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v: to make as small as possible, make the least of; to make smaller than before
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Oblique
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adj: slanting or sloping; not straightforward or direct
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Veer
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v: to change direction or course suddenly, turn aside, shift
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Venerate
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v: to regard with reverance, look up to with great respect
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Wanton
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adj: reckless; heartless, unjustifiable, loose in morals
n: a spoiled, pampered person; one with low morals |