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51 Cards in this Set
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Equanimity |
Calmness under stress |
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Lackluster |
Lacking brilliance and importance |
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Malevolence |
Wishing evil to others |
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Jaded |
Exhausted |
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Truant |
Absent without permission |
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Fetching |
Very attractive; capturing interest |
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Insensible |
Unaffected |
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Sedulous |
Marked by care and persistent effort |
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Iniquitous |
Sinful; ungodly |
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Diaphanous |
So thin as to transmit light |
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Dilatory |
Slow or wasting time |
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Fatuous |
Stupid and silly |
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Pithy |
Concise and full of meaning |
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Hackneyed |
Repeated too often; banal |
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Proliferate |
Grow rapidly |
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Pique |
A sudden outburst of anger |
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Superfluous |
Serving no useful purpose |
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Poseur |
A person who habitually pretends to be something he's not |
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Veracious |
Truthful |
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Cogitation |
A carefully considered thought about something |
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Mastication |
Chewing |
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Subjective |
A mental act performed entirely within the mind |
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Enfeeble |
Make weak |
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Injudicious |
Unwise |
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Astounding |
Dumbfounding |
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Desultory |
Marked by lack of definite plan or purpose |
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Endemic |
Of or relating to a disease |
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Ineluctable |
Impossible to avoid or evade |
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Seminal |
Containing seeds of later development |
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Venal |
Capable of being corrupted |
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Paradigm |
The generally accepted perspective of a particular discipline at a given time |
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Nebulous |
Lacking definite form or limits |
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Meretricious |
Tastelessly showy |
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Subsidiary |
Functioning in a supporting capacity |
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Radiant |
Bright |
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Refulgent |
Beaming light; effulgent |
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Meagerly |
Deficient in amount |
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Perilous |
Fraught with danger |
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Fallow |
Undeveloped but potentiality useful |
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Fractious |
Stubbornly resistant to authority and control |
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Bedizened |
Decorate tastelessly |
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Veritable |
True or real |
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Denizen |
Habitant |
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Heretical |
Unorthodox |
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Jejune |
Unwholesome; immature; uninteresting |
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Pussillanimous |
Lacking in courage and manly strength |
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Arrant |
Of the worst kind |
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Insouciant |
Nonchalant |
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Halcyon |
Calm and peaceful |
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Ingenuous |
Not devious |
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Piquant |
Tasty |