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60 Cards in this Set
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penchant
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A strong inclination, taste, or liking for something
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penurious
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Extremely stingy. Parsimonious. lacking money. Miserly.
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perfidious
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deliberately treacharous. Violation of trust. Disloyal.
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perfunctory
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performed merely as a routine duty, casual, apathatic.
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perspicacious
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Having keen vision. Marked by awareness. Astute, discerning
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peruse
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To read with greatr care. To study, examine, scurtinize
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petulance
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Unreasonably irritated and ill-tempered. Peevish, fretfulness.
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Phillistine
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A oersib ubdufferebt abd agnostic to cultural values. Smug, ignorant, foolish.
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phlematic
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not easily excited or displaying emotion.
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ponderous
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Having great weight. Massive huge, enormous
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predliection
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tendency because of perosnal dispositions. Bias.
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prescience
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knowledge of action before they occur. Clarivoiyence or foresight.
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probity
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Ccmplete and confirmed integrity. Honor, recititude.
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prevalent
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widespread. Commonly occuring. Pervasive.
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procrastinate
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to defer action unitl a future toime for needless purposes.
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prudence
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caution with regard to practical matters. Wisdom, direction
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quixotic
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Extragently chiverous. Caught up in un-reachable ideals. Idealistic, visionary, impractical.
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rapport
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relationship of mutual trust and affinity. accord.
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ratiocinate
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to reason methodically and logically.
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recalcitrant
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resistant to authority or guidance. Rebellous, un-ruly, obdstinate
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recapitulate
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to repeat stages fromthe evolution of the species. Summarize, re-iterate, recap.
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refulgent
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shining brilliantly or splednidly, radiant.
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reprehensible
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highly unacceptable and deserving censure. Condemnable, heinous, neferious
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resilinet
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able to quickly recover from setbacks.
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reticent
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unwilling to communicate very much, talk freely, or reveal all facts about something. taciturn.
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salient
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particuklarly noticable, stirking, or relevant,. Protruding out. Palpable
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sapient
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wise or learned person. perspective, sagacious, perspicacious.
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subterfuge
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a plan, action, or device designed to hide a real objective. Ruse, sophestry.
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supercilious
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characteriszed by haughty arrogance.
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surreptitious
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done in a concealed or underhanded way to escape notice, and especially disapproval.
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surveillance
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continual observation of a person or group unde suspicion. A watch, scrutiny.
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taciturn
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sparing of words, laconic/
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trepidation
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fear or uneasiness about the future, or future events
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truculent
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aggressively or sullenly refreshing to accept something or do what is asked
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ubiquitous
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present at everywhere at once, omnipresent
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unctuous
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attempting to charm or convince someone in a smug, suave, or smooth way. Having the qualities of oil.
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untrammeled
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not restricted or restrained in anyway. Un-hampered.
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viable
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Able to live and develop
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vitiate
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to destroy or drastically reduce the effectiveness of something, invalidate.
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voracious
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Desiring or consuming food in great quantities. Ravenous, gluttonous.
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vicarious
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experienced through someone else, by using sympathy not first hand knowledge.
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voucher
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a crd taken, document exchanged for goods and services in place of money
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vulpine
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typical or resembling a fox. Wily, crafty, cunning
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waffle
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to change ones position on something, vacilate, capitulate
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wanderlust
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a strong desire to travel. Impulse to travel or rove.
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warlock
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a man who is a supposed sorcerer or wizard
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warranty
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a guarantee on a purchase goods that they are of the quality represented and will be replaced if found faulty
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wellspring
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a source of a spring or stream
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wheedle
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to coax or try to persude sometbody to do something using flattery, guile. or other indirect means
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vortex
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a whirling mass of something that draws everything towards its center
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whittle
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to carve something out of wood by using a knife. Shave, file, slash, pare.
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windsock
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a fabric tube attached to a pole used to indicate the direction of the wind
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wreak
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to inflict revenge or punishment on someone
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xenophobe
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One who is intensely fearful of foreigners and their customs.
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xylophone
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a msuical instrument with a row of wooden bars that produce a tone when struck by a mallet.
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yahoo
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somebody regarded as brutih, crude, and boorish.
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ying-yang
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dualistic Chinese philosophy
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zealot
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a fervent supporter of a cause, especially a religous one. A fanatic or an extremist
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zenith
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the highest point or climax of something. Appex, acme, pinnacle
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zodiac
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a narrow band in the sky in which movements of major planets take place.
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