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141 Cards in this Set
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Emporium |
Store or Shop |
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Metropolis |
An important city |
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Dilettante |
Amateur |
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Serendipity |
Luck taking form of pleasant things |
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Dilligence |
Hardwork |
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Merriment |
Enjoyment |
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Substantiation |
Providing with a proof |
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Speculation |
Guess something not known |
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Amicability |
Congeniality/ Art of being Compatible |
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Facetious |
Humorous/ Witty |
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Sanguine |
Hopeful/ Confident/ Optimistic |
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Obdurate |
Inflexible |
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Tractable |
Malleable/ Obedient |
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Prescient |
Having Foresight |
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Infallible |
Unfailing |
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Reticent |
Reserved |
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Improvident |
Shortsightedness, Not providing for the future |
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Sedulous |
Busy |
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Halcyon |
Prosperous/ Calm / Peaceful |
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Notorious |
Famous for something bad |
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Somnolent |
Sleepy/ Dormant |
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Capricious |
Unpredictable |
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Expedient |
Quick/ Easy solution to a problem |
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Endearing |
Admiring |
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Discerning |
Discriminating |
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Surmounting |
Excelling |
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Dinghy |
A small boat |
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Recuperative |
Helping you to return to normal health |
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Redemptive |
Making better or more acceptable |
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Veer |
Move Away |
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Licentious |
Sexually Immoral |
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Nihilistic |
Traditional |
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Permissive |
Giving Freedom |
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Acquisitive |
Greedy |
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Perennial |
Evergreen plants |
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Recrimination |
Criticism |
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Excavate |
Dig |
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Lucrative |
Producing money |
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Inimitably |
Not copied |
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Jeopardized |
Dangerous |
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Skeptimicism |
Doubtfulness |
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Propitiatory |
Harmonious |
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Plausibility |
Realism |
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Pliant |
Flexible |
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Convivial |
Festive |
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Capitulate |
Surrender |
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Pedantic |
Dull |
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Fortuitous |
Happen by accident |
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Staunchly |
Devotively |
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Negating |
Nullifying |
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Inevitable |
Sure to happen |
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Incessantly |
Continuously |
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Remonstrated |
Disagreed |
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Singularly |
Individually |
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Magisterial |
Authoritative |
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Enigmatic |
Mysterious |
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Seep |
Pass |
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Salutary |
Beneficient |
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Penache |
Verve/ Energy/ Flamboyance |
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Marginal |
Not important |
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Insinuation |
Bad remarks |
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Waft |
Flow slowly |
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Brashness |
Rudeness |
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Evocative |
Bringing memories |
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Rational |
Based on facts |
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Precarious |
Not safe |
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Reminiscent |
Bringing memories |
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Redolent |
Reminding things |
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Intercede |
Intervene |
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Irascibility |
Made angry immediately |
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Supercedes |
Replaces |
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Clandestine |
Secret |
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Verdant |
Green with growing plants |
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Candid |
Honest |
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Rapturous |
Happy |
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Mendacity |
Dishonest |
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Equivocate |
Make language unclear intentionally |
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Improvise |
Make point without preparation |
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Forgo |
Forsake/ to give up advantage |
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Reiterate |
Repeat |
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Eccentric |
Strange or unusual |
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Abstruse |
Hard to understand |
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Incomprehensible |
Not understandable |
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Intricate |
Complicated |
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Contrived |
Planned |
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Intriguing |
Interesting |
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Convoluted |
Twisted |
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Dilatory |
Delayed |
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Ardor |
Intensity |
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Paragon |
Ideal |
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Obtuseness |
Stupidness |
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Paradox |
A statement containing two opposite views which are true |
The paradox of waging war for peace |
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Dearth |
Lack |
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Rigorous |
Rigid |
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Dogmatic |
STRONGLY based on a belief |
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Maverick |
Someone who refuses to follow the customs of a group |
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Sardonic |
Sarcastic |
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Baffled |
Confusing |
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Pensive |
Sad |
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Tenuously |
Uncertainly |
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Certitude |
Certain feeling |
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Obfuscation |
Difficulty in understanding |
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Gaping |
Very large |
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Oblivious |
Ignorant |
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Oblivion |
Forgetfullness |
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Ubiquitous |
Common / widespread |
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Incongruity |
Contradictory |
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Trivial |
Common |
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Surly |
Rude |
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Weary |
Worn out/ exhausted |
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perturbed |
Cause someone to be upset |
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placid |
calm and steady |
Complacent |
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serene |
calm |
placid/complacent |
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store |
uncomplaining |
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servile |
extremely obedient |
servant like |
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jocular |
witty |
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melancholy |
sad/sorrowful |
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propitious |
favorable |
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resilient |
withstanding something without permanent deformation |
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pertinent |
relevant |
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poignant |
strong feeling/ emotion |
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doctrinaire |
dogmatic / strongly standing for a doctrine |
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vitriolic |
harsh |
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Endorsed |
Advocated |
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Backlash |
Strong public reaction |
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Tedious |
Boring |
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Disjointed |
Lacking order |
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Unsettling |
Upsetting |
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Unleash |
Release |
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Subdued |
Restrained |
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Scathing |
Harsh |
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Bombastic |
Grandiloquent/ Grandiose / Rhetorical / Exaggerated |
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Remorseful |
Sorry / Regretful |
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Pugnacious |
Quarelsome |
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Terse |
Unfriendly |
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Quizzical |
Mildly mocking |
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Loquacious |
Wordy / talkative |
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Nonchalant |
Cool |
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Perfunctry |
Complacent / Casual |
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Culpable |
Guilty |
Culprit |
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Succinct |
Comprehensive |
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