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30 Cards in this Set
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prepossessing
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impressing favorable; pleasing
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prototype
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the original type, form, or model on which something is based
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redolent
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1. having a pleasant odor; sweet-smelling; fragrant
2. suggesting; reminiscent |
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romantic
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imaginative but not practical or real; idealized
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rustic
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1. characteristic of country life or country people; rural
2. unsophisticated; simple; plain |
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officious
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too eagerly offering unwanted services or advice
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proficient
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highly competent; skilled; adept
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prolific
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1. producing abundant creative or artistic works; highly productive
2. producing many offspring or fruit |
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suffice
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to be enough or adequate to meet or satisfy the needs or requirements of; be sufficient
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surfeit
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1. an excessive amount
2. over indulgence to feed or supple to excess |
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accoutrements
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items of equipment, furnishings, or dress
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fastidious
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1. showing careful attention to detail
2. hard to please; exacting |
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indolent
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disliking or avoiding work; lazy; idle
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languor
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listlessness; a quality of dreamy laziness
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ennui
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a feeling of listlessness, weariness, or discontents resulting from inactivity or lack of interest; boredom
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celerity
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swiftness; speed; quickness
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alacrity
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1. eagerness; willingness
2. liveliness; briskness; quickness |
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affectation
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1. an artificial behavior that is adopted to impress or deceive others
2. show or pretense |
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efficacy
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power to produce the desired results; effectiveness
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faclie
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1. working or doing with skill and ease
2. easily done |
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factitious
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not natural or real; artificial
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feasible
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1. capable of being done or carried out; possible
2. suitable 3. likely |
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lissome
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supple; flexible; limber; agile
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quiescent
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being at rest; quiet; still; inactive
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sedulous
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diligent and hardworking; persistent
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somnolence
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sleepiness; drowsiness
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soporific
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causing or tending to cause sleep;
something that causes sleep |
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patina
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a change in appearance resulting form continued behavior. practice, or use
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preclude
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to make impossible; preventable
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functional
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1. designed for a particular use, duty, or activity
2. capable of performing |
