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43 Cards in this Set
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- AGGREGATE
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- A combination or collection.
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- ATTRITION;
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- Gradual loss, accepted decrease in number and size.
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- DEARTH;
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- Lack, a scarcity
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- FRUGAL
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- Economical, penny-pinching
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- FRUGALITY
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- Thriftiness
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- MUNIFICENT
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- Generous, lavish
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- MUNIFICENCE
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- Generosity, charity
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- NOMINAL
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- Insignificant or small
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- PARSIMONIOUS
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- Stingy, miserly
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- PAUCITY
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- Scarcity, insufficiency
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- PENURY
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- Poverty
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- PLETHORA
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- A great deal, an excess
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- PRODIGIOUS
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- Enormous, extraordinary
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- PRODIGY
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- Gifted child
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- PROLIFERATE
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- To spread or grow rapidly
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- PROLIFERATION
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- An increase in number, a rapid spread
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- PROLIFIC
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- Very productive, fruitful, fertile
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- SQUANDER
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- To waste
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- ACRID
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- Bitter, stinging or caustic
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- ACRIMONIOUS
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- Bitter, hurtful and nasty
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- ACRIMONY
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- Bitterness, harshness
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- ADULATION
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- Wild or excessive admiration
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- AFFINITY
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- Attraction, sympathy, kinship; similarity
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- ALACRITY
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- Cheerful eagerness; briskness; readiness to respond
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- ANTIPATHY
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- Firm dislike
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- ANTIPATHETIC
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- Hostile, antagonistic
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- BANE
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- Poison, torment, cause of harm
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- BANEFUL
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- Destructive; poisonous
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- CONFLUENCE
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- Flowing together, a convergence
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- DERIDE
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- To ridicule or laugh at contemptuously
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- DERISION
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- Contempt; mockery
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- DEROGATORY
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- Disapproving; degrading
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- NARCISSISM
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- Abiding love of oneself
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- NARCISSISTIC
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- Conceited, self-centered
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- NIHILISM
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- A belief that there are no values, morals, or goodness in the world
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- ANNIHILATE
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- Completely destroy
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- PREDILECTION
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- Natural preference
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- PRUDENT
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- Having foresight; being careful or wise
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- RANCOR
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- Bitter, long-lasting ill will or resentment
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- RANCOROUS
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- Showing bitterness or animosity
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- REVERE
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- To respect highly, to honor
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- VILIFY
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- To say vile things about, to defame
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- VILIFICATION
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- Denigration, slander
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