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64 Cards in this Set
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Abbreviated Communitcation
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abridge,compendium,cursory,curtail,syllabus,synopsis,terse
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Act Quickly
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apace,abrupt,headlong,impetuous,precipitate
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Assist
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abet,advocate,ancillary,bolster,corroborate,countenance,espouse,mainstay,nunificent,proponent,stalwart,sustenance
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bad mood
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bilious,dudgeon,irascible,pettish,petulant,pique,querulous,umbrage,waspish
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beginner/amateur
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dilettante,fledging,neophyte,novitiate,proselyte,tyro
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beginning/young
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burgeoning,callow,engender,inchoate,incipient,nascent
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biting (wit/temperment)
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acerbic,acidulous,acrimonious,asperity,causitc,mordacious,mordant,trenchant
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bold
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audacious,courageous,dauntless
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boring
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anal,fatuous,hackneyed,insipid,mundane,pedestrian,paltitude,prosaic,quotidian,trite
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changing quickly
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capricious,mercurial,volatile
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copy
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counterpart,emulate,facsimile,factitious,paradigm,precursor,quintessence,simulated,vicarious
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criticize a-g
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aspersion,belittle,berate,calumny,castiget,decry,defamation,denounce,deride, diatribe,disparage,excoriate,gainsay
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criticize h-v
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harangue,immpugn,inveigh,lambaste,ojurgate,obloquy,opprobrium,pillory,rebuke,remonstrate,reprehend,reprove,revile,tirade,vituperate
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death/mourning
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bereave,cadaver,defunct,demise,dolorous,elegy,knell,lament,macabre,moribund,obsequies,sepulchral,wraith
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denying of self
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abnegate,abstain,ascetic,spartan,stoic,temperate
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dictorial
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authoritarian,despotic,dogmatic,hegemonic,imperious,peremptory,tyrannical
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difficult to understand
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abstruse,ambiguous,arcane,bemusing,cryptic,enigmatic,esoteric,inscrutable,obscure,opaque,paradoxical,perplexing,recondite,turbid
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disgusting/offensive
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defile,fetid,invidious,noisome,odious,putrid,rebarbative
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easy to understand
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articulate,cogent,eloquent,evident,limpid,lucid,pellucid
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eccentric/dissimilar
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aberrant,anachronism,anomalous,iconoclast,discrete,eclectic,esoteric
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embarrass
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absh,chagrin,compunction,contrition,diffidence,expiate,foible,gaucherie,rue
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equal
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equitable,equity,tantamount
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falsehood
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apocryphal,canard,chicanery,dissemble,duplicity,quivocate,erroneous,ersataz,fallacious,feigned,guile,mendacious,perfidy,prevaricate,specious,spurious
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family
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conjugal,consanguine,distaff,endogamous,filial,fratricide,progenitor,scion
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favoring/not impartial
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ardor,doctrinaire,fervid,partisan,tendentious,zealot
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forgive
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absolve,acquite,exulpate,exonerate,expiate,palliate,redress,vindicate
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funny
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chortle,droll,facetious,flippant,gibe,jocular,levity,ludicrous,raillery,riposte,simper
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gaps/openings
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abatement,aperture,fissure,hiatus,inttergnum,interstice, lull,orifice,rent,respite,rift
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generous/kind
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altruistis,beneficent,clement,largess,magnamimous,numificent,philanthropic,unstinting
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greedy
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avaricious,covetous,mercenary,miserly,penurious,rapacious,venal
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hardhearted
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asperity,baleful,dour,fell,malevolent,mordant,sardonic,scathing,truculent,vitriolic,vituperation
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harmful
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baleful,baneful,deleterious,inimical,injurious,insidious,minatory,perfidious,pernicious
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harsh-sounding
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cacophony,din,dissonant,raucous,strident
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hatred
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abhorrence,anathema,antagonism,antipathy,detestation,enmity,loathing,malice,odium,rancor
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healthy
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beneficial,salubrious,salutary
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hesitate
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dither,oscillate,teeter,vacillate,waver
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hostile
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antithetic,churlish,curmudgeoun,irascible,malevolent,misanthropic,truculent,vindictive
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innocent/inexperienced
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credulous,gullible,ingenuous,naive,noviate,tyro
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insincere
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disingenuous,dissemble,fulsome,ostensible,unctuous
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investigate
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appraise,ascertain,assay,descry,peruse
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lazy/sluggish
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indolent,inert,lackadaisical,languid,lassitude,lethargic,phlegmatic,quiescent,slothful,torpid
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luck
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adventitious,amulet,auspicious,fortuitous,kismet,optimum,portentous,propitiate,propitious,providential,talisman
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nag
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admonish,cavil,belabor,enjoin,exhort,harangue,hector,martinet,remonstrate,reproof
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nasty
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fetid,noisome,noxious
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not a straight line
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askance,awry,careen,carom,ciruitous,circumvent,gyrate,labyrinth,meander,oblique,serrated,sidle,sinuous,undulating,vortex
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overblown/wordy
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bombastic,circumlocution,garrulous,grandiloquent,loquacious,periphrastic,prolix,rhetoric,turgid,verbose
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pacify/satisfy
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amerliorate,appease,assuage,defer,mitigate,molligy,placate,propitiate,satiate,slake,sooth
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pleasant sounding
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euphonious,harmonious,melodious,sonorous
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poor
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destitute,esurient,impecunious,indigent
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praise
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acclain,accolade,aggrandize,encomium,eulogize,extol,fawn,laud,venerate
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predict
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augur,auspice,fey,harbinger,portentous,presage,prescient,prognosticate
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prevent/obstrut
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discomfort,encumber,fetter,forfend,hinder,impede,inhibit,occlude
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smart/learned
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astute,canny,erudite,perspicacious
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sorrow
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disconsolate,doleful,dolor,elegiac,forlorn,lament,lugubrious,melancholy,renitent,untoward,vexing
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terse
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compedious,curt,laonic,pithy,succinct,taciturn
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time/order/duration
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anachronism,antecede,antedate,anterior,archaic,ddiurnal,eon,ephemeral,epoch,fortnight,millennium,penultimate,synchronous,temporal
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timid/timidity
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craven,diffident,pusillanimous,recreant,timorous,trepidation
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truth
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candor,fealty,frankness,indisputable,indubitable,legitimate,probity,sincere,veracious,verity
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unusual
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aberration,anomaly,iconoclast,idiosyncrasy
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walking about
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ambulatory,itinerant,peripatetic
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wandering
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discursive,expatiate,forage,itinerant,peregrination,peripatetic,sojourn
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weaken
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adulterate,enervate,exacerbate,inhibit,obviate,stultify,undermine,vitiate
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wisdom
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adage,aphorism,apothegm,axiom,bromide,dictum,epigram,platitude,sententious,truism
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withdrawl/retreat
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abeyance,abjure,abnegation,abortive,abrogate,decamp,demur,recant,recidvism,remission,renege,recind,retrograde
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