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100 Cards in this Set
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recklessness, follhardiness; effrontery
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infallible
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a disagreement, divergence, inconsistency
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discrepancy
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to commence, launch, begin; to board
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embark
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unerring, certain
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temerity
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sharp, spicy, piquant; caustic; racy
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pungent
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negligent, lax, slack
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remiss
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leniency, forbearance, gentleness
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benefactor
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timid, bashful; unassertive withdrawn
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diffident
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venomous; noxious, baneful, hateful
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virulent
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genuine, heartfelt
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unfeined
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unbeatable, invincible, unyielding
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indomitable
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gallant, civil; valiant
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chivalrous
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easy, effortless; assured, poised; specious
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facile
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to concur, agree, consent, accede
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assent
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selfless, rising above personal intrests
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altruistic
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an insufficienty, want, paucity
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dearth
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to lumber, trudge
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plod
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sleep, tranquility; a respite
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repose
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one who helps others; a patron, humanitarian
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clemency
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rich,lavish;plentiful abundant
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opulent
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to ridicule, mock, deride, jeer
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gibe
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carefully, prudently, gingerly
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warily
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impassive, phlegmatic, unresponsive
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stolid
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a costume, semblance; a pretense
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guise
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harsh, bleak, forbidding, saturnine
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dour
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provisional, inconclusive
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tenative
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cunning, underhanded, perfidious
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insidious
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word for word, exact
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verbatim
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sloppy, disheveled; disordered; rough
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unkempt
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resolve, steadfastness, mettle
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fortitude
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supple, adaptible; resilient
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pliable
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resolve, steadfastness, mettle
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fortitude
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a clue, indication, inkling
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intimidation
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to arrangle, station, organize
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deploy
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to gawk, ogle; to open wide
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gape
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deprived; saddened by loss, bereaved
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bereft
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equally skillful with both hands
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ambidextrous
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to enlarge, supplement, amplify
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augment
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to repeat, rehash
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reiterate
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quck, superficial, perfunctory
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cursory
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careful, fastidous, painstaking, fussy
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meticulous
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risk, hazard, peril
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jeopardy
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workable, practicable, viable
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feasible
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to nrevert; to degenerate, decline
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retrogress
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fraud, double-dealing, chicanery
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duplicity
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a conflagration; devastation; annihilation
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holocaust
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a longing for things past; homesickness
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nostalgia
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impenetrable; resistant, proof against
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impervious
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an impulse, incentive, stimulus, spur
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impetus
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disinclined, opposed, loath
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averse
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congenial, neighborly, cordial
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amicable
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a pain expression, facial contortion
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grimace
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luckwarm; insipid; halfhearted, wishy washy
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tepid
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the purest essence; a paragon, exemplar
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quintessence
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kindlt, benign, well meaning
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benevolent
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to inspect, examine, pore over
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scrutinize
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clever, deft, dexterous, slick
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adroit
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to glorify, applaud, acclaim, hail
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extol
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assertive, truculent, pugnacious
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belligerent
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to stimulate, excite, gladden
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exhilarate
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blustery, tempestuous, implacable
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inclement
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fearful, fainthearted, pusillanimous
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craven
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suave, elegant
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urbane
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an antagonist, rival, foe
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adversary
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to annoy, pester bedevil, beleaguer, worry
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harass
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to rectify, correct, mitigate
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redress
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travial, inconsequential, insignificant
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negiglible
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to remove, cancel, expunge
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delete
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penalizing, retaliatory
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punitive
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to meditate, contemplate, daydream
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muse
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to seperate, drive apart, estrange
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alienate
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a visit, stopover, brief stay
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sojourn
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unproductive, inert, dormant
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fallow
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to continue, preserve, propong indefinitey
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perpetuate
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a death, decease, passing away
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demise
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to pressure, bully, intimidate, constrain
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coerce
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a guide, tradition, model
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precedent
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a ruse, stratagem, contrivance
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artifice
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related to cooking
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culinary
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snobbish, patronizing, overbearing
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supercilious
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painstaking, meticulous, consientious
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scrupulous
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to lurk, link, prowl
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skulk
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to hand down, transmit, bestow
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bequeath
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to respect, admire, honor, revere
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esteem
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malicious, wicked, sinister, malignant
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macevolent
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impregnable, impervious, immure
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invunerable
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eerie, inexplicable, spooky
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uncanny
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attached, related, joined to
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affilated
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to meet, unite, intersect, merge
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converge
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a universal cure; am easy solution
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panacea
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to delete, efface, annihilate
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expunge
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peruazive, compelling
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cogent
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wise, all-knowing
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omniscure
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excusable, forgivable
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venial
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to discover, determine, establish, find out
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ascertain
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limited, bounded, measurable
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finite
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an achievement, fulfillment
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altainment
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to break up, scatter, dispel
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dispense
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composed, unruffled, indifferent, blase
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nonchalant
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brutal, savage, belligerent, vitriolic
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truculent
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