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20 Cards in this Set
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Provocative |
Tending to provoke |
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Banal |
Pointless and uninteresting |
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Detached |
Disinterested; unbiased |
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Restrained |
Held back; deprived |
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Skeptical |
Showing doubt |
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Pendantic |
Concerned with unimportant details |
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Didactic |
Inclined to teach or moralize (often excessively) |
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Moralistic |
Concerned with principles of morality |
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Puritanical |
Strict or severe in matters of morality |
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Colloquial |
Ordinary and informal |
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Homespun |
Simple and homely |
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Mundane |
Ordinary; common; everyday |
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Terse |
Effectively concise; brief |
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Audacious |
Fearless; recklessly daring; unrestrained; insolent |
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Cinematic |
Having the qualities of a motion picture |
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Conciliatory |
Agreeable; characterized by appeasement |
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Discursive |
Moving pointlessly from one subject to another; rambling |
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Evocative |
Having the ability to call forth memories or other responses |
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Trite |
Stale; worn out; overused |
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Zealous |
Highly motivated; fervent |
