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26 Cards in this Set
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petulant
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moved to or showing sudden impatiant irritation esp. over some trifling annoyence
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disingenuous
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lacking in frankness, candor, or sincerity; falsly or hypocritically ingenuous; insincere
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ambiguity
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doubtfullness or uncertantity of meaning or intention; an unclear, indefinate, or equivocal word, expression meaning etc.
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admonition
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counsel, advice or caution
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doleful
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sorrowful;mournful;melancholy
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complacency
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a feeling of quiet plesure or security, often while unawhere of some potential danger, defect, or the like; self satisfaction or snug satisfaction within a existinf situation, condition, etc.
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comtenptuous
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showing or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful
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evoke
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to call up or produce (memories, feelings etc.) to elicit or draw forth
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provoke
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to anger, enrage or vex, stir up, arouse or call forth (feelings, desires, or activity) to action
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quantitive
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that is or may be estimated by quantity
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shrewd
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astute or sharp in practical matters
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grudging
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to give or permit with reluctence, to submit to it unwillingly
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irate
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angry; enraged
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pedantic
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marked by a narrow, often obstentatious concern for book learning and formal rules
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resentful
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feeling or expressing bitterness or indignation at having been treated poorly
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assimilate
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to take in and understand; to make and become similar
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indignent
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feeling, characterized by, or expressing strong displeasure at something considered unjust, offensive, insulting or base
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resigned
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submissive or acquiescent
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cynical
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like or characteristic of a cynic; distrusting or disparaging the motives of others; bitterly or seemingly distrustful, contemptuous or pessimistic
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sardonic
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characterized bybitter or scornful derision;mocking;cynical; sneering
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strident
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having a shrill, iritating quality or character
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contenious
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tending to arguement or strife; quarrelsome
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polemic
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a controversial arguement, as on against some opinon, doctrine, etc.
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didactic
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intended for instruction;instructive; inclined to teach or lecture others too much;teaching or intending to teach a moral lession
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querulous
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full of complaints; complaining; characterized by or uttered in complaint; peevish
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feigned
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pretended; sham; counterfeit
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