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50 Cards in this Set
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Diminutive
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much smaller than average
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hardy
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tough
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abstemious
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self denying
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soporific
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causing sleep
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intractable
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dificult to manage
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aversion
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an intense dislike
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eclectic
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comming from many sources
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abstrusive
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difficult to understand
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extraneous
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not essential
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astute
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clever
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erudite
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showing wide knowledge
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ludable
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worthy of praise
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abstract
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theoratical
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archaic
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no longer current
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fervor
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intensity of motion
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renown
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fame
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pompous
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having inflated idea of one's own importance
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painstaking
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showing much care and hard work
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engender
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to bring into existence
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iconoclast
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someone who considers nothing sacred
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mollofy
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to soothe the temper of
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equanimity
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the quality of staying calm and even tempered
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lassitude
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lack of energy
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resigned
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passivley accepting
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surmise
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to infer
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paradigm
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model that serves for others
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profusion
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an abundance
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convivial
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fond of social pleasures
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listless
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sluggish
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recalcitrant
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refusing to obey
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Despot
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A tyrant
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Credulous
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tending to believe to readily
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Biased
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prejudice
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Anomaly
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Something differnt odd or parcular
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Ambivalence
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mixed feeelings
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Incipient
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begginning
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Nefarious
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very wicked
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temper
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to reduce intensity, especially by mixing in some other quality
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Prodigious
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enormous
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Servile
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humbly obiedienet
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Unipeachable
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beyond cristism
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Didatic
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designed to teach
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Deprecate
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to express disaproval of
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Tawdry
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tastelessly showing
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Raze
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To tear down completly
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Blithe
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chherfull and lighthearted
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Ascethic
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practicing self denial
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gratuitous
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with out any good reason
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eulogy
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a spoken or written triubute, to someone who is dead
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arduous
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difficult to do
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