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20 Cards in this Set
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affable
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courteous and pleasant, amicable
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aggrandize
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to augment, to hype up/ make bigger
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amorphous
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shapeless, not pinneddown
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aura
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distinct air or personality/ atmosphere
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contraband
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illegal traffic/ smuggled goods, not allowed
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erudite
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scholarly, learned
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gossamer
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filmy, airy, feathery
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infer
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to imply/ guess/ figure, deduce
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inscrutable
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impenetrable
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insular
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narrow-minded, such insular opinions
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irrevocable
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irreversible, unrecallable
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propensity
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proclivity, natural inclination towards
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querulous
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peevish, complaining
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remonstrate
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reason against
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repudiate
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to disown, reject
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resilient
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springy, bouncy, elastic
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reverberate
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rumble, re-echo
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scurrilous
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vulgar or low, obscene
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sedulous
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persistent
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sleazy
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thin or flimsy/ frowned upon
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