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50 Cards in this Set
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Abstruse
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difficult to understand; deep
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Aversion
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an intense dislike
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Eclectic
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Coming from many sources
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Extraneous
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not essential; irrelevant
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Astuse
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clever; perceptive
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Soporific
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causing sleep
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Hardy
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tough; strong
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Abstemious
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Self-denying
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Intractable
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difficult to manage; hard to control; unruly
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Diminutive
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much smaller than the average
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Erudite
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having or showing wide knowledge
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Fervor
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great warmth or intensity of emotion
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Engender
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to cause or produce; bring into existence
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Laudable
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worthy of praise
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Painstaking
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showing much care, effort, and hard work; diligent
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Pompous
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having an inflated idea of one's own importance; arrogant
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Renown
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fame
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Iconoclast
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someone who attacks traditional ideas; someone who considers nothing sacred
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Archaic
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no longer current; out-of-date
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Abstract
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theoretical; not applied; not practical
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Lassitude
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Lack of energy; weariness; fatigue
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Mollify
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to soothe the temper of
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Profusion
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an abundance; a rich supply
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Recalcitrant
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Stubbornly refusing to obey
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Surmise
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to infer something; guess
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Resigned
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Unresisting; passively accepting; accepting as inevitable
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Paradigm
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an example that serves as a mdoel for others
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Equanimity
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the quality of staying calm and even-tempered
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Convivial
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fond of social pleasures; merry
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Listless
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lacking enthusiasm; sluggish
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Biases
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prejudiced
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Ambrivalence
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mixed feelings; uncertainty; indecisiveness
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Incipient
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beginning; early
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Servile
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humbly obedient
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Temper
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to reduce in intensity, especially by mixing in some other quality; moderate; soften
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Despot
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a tyrant
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Prodigious
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enormous
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Nefarious
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very wicked; villanious
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Credulous
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Tending to believe too readily, easily convinced
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Anomaly
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something different, odd, or peculiar
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Blithe
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cheerful and lighthearted
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Arduous
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difficult to do; strenous
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Ascetic
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Practicing self-denial; austere
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Deprecate
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to express disapproval of
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Didactic
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designed to teach
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Eulogy
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a spoken or written tribute, especially to someone who has died
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Raze
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to tear down completley, demolish
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Tawdry
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tastelessy showy; cheap and gaudy; vulgar
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Unimpeachable
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Blameless; beyond reproach; beyond criticism
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Gratutious
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uncalled for; without any good reason
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