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40 Cards in this Set
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Emotions that show through our body language and facial expressions
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Countenance
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Having intellectual depth and insight
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Profound
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Easily understood; or recognized by the mind
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Manifest
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Clear and free of storms or unpleasant change
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Serene
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Nifty, grand, exalted in thought, expression, or manner
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Sublime
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Exciting amazing or wonder
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Prodigious
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Distinguished by superiority or relating to a specific person or things
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Singular
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Noisy, shouting
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Clamor
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Aspect or appearance
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Visage
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To put an end to, to reverse in degree or intensity
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Abate
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To make indifferent reference- to refer
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Allude
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Fanciful or bizarre in style of decorative art; characterized by forms distorted into ab-sorted ugliness or caricature
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Grotesque
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Having a wavy surface or edge, rising or falling in waves
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Undulate
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Characterized by sharpness or severity
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Acute
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Pronouncing a strong or clear impression on the senses
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Vivid
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To honor- reverential respect
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Venerate
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Marked by flawless craftsmanship or by beautiful, ingenious, delicate or elaborate execution
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Exquisite
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Sadness or depression of mind or spirit
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Melancholy
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Unwilling to accept what is offered as true- skeptical
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Incredulous
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Lateral or zigzag something that crosses or lies across
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Traverse
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To lie at rest
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Repose
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Wan and ghastly, pale in appearance; causing horror or revulsion
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Lurid
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Drooping or flagging from exhaustion, weak, listless, sluggish, in disposition or character
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Languid
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Exceeding what is sufficient or necessary, not needed
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Superfluous
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Having keen or far- singled judgment, quality of bearing congress
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Sagacity
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Of or relating to common people lacking in taste ordinary kind
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Vulgar
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Severely free of interruption or discordance; complacent
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Placid
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Quivering, marked by trembling
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Tremulous
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Exciting or deserting hatred or resinous
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Odious
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Paleness esp. in the face
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Pallor
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Unemotional; expressing little or no sensibility
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Stolid
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The bottomless pit; gulf; immeasurable deep gulf or space
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Abyss
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To assume an air of superiority
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Condescend
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Full of yearning or desire tinged with melancholy, pensive
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Wistful
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Stretched out with face downward
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Prostrate
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To object, or protest something; to plead in opposition to something
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Remonstrate
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Capable of being touched or felt; easily perceptible
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Palpable
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To annoy continually with little irritations; to loving trouble or dance
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Vex
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Generally agreeable; friendly; sociable
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Amiable
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Unable to group something clearly or to think logically and decisively
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Perplex
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