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41 Cards in this Set
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complacent
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self-satified; unconcerned; content to a fault
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reticent
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disposed to be quiet, not speak freely; reserved
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meticulous
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taking or showing extreme care about minute details: painstaking: thorough.
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caprice
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a sudden and impulsive notion or action
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placate
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to sooth or mollify especially by concessions: appease
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mollify
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1. to calm in temper or feeling.
2. to reduce the rigidity of: soften |
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eccentric
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unconventional; deviating from accepted practice.
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dogmatic
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asserting opinions in a dictatorial manner.
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fallacious
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deceptive; logically unsound; misleading.
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capricious
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impulsive
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devious
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departing from the most direct way; circuitous; roundabout.
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abstract
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thought of apart from concrete realities, specific objects or actual instances.
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plausible
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having the appearance of truth, reliability or reason
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pertinent
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relevant
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soporific
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causing or tending to cause sleep; drowsy
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quiescent
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being at rest; quiet or still; inactive or motionless.
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repose
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state of being at rest; dignified calmness; sleep.
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obscure
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hard to perceive; nebulous; meaning not clear or plain.
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theoritical
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hypothetical; existing only in principle; not pratical.
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candid
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frank or outspoken; free from reservation or disguise.
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frank
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marked by free, forthright, and sincere expression
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outspoken
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1: direct and open in speech or expression: frank.
2: spoken or expressed without reserve. |
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morose
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sullenly ill-humored (person)
expressing gloom, glum (adj.) |
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carp
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to find fault or complain querulously
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carping
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marked by or inclined to querulous and often perverse critism.
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perverse
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corrupt; wrongheaded
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querulous
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habitually complaining
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ostentatious
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characterized by a pretentious show in order to impress
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querulous
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carping; characterized by or full of complaints.
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repudiate
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to reject with disapproval, condemnation or denial
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condemnation
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censure, blame
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reprehensible
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worthy or deserving reprehension
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reprehend
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to voice disapproval of: censure
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condemn
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to declare to be reprehensive, wrong, or evil
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eminent
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standing out so as to be readily perceived or noted: conspicuous
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virulent
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actively poisenous; intensely noxious; deadly.
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noxious
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harmful to living things, health, mind or morals.
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squander
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to spend or use extravagantly lavishly or wastefully
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prevaricate
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to speak falsely or misleadingly so as to avoid the truth; to lie
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innocuous
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harmless; inoffensive
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ambience
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atmosphere
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