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35 Cards in this Set
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lugubrious
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heavily sad adn doleful, as only a pessimist can be(describing a person)
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predactiy
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primarilly the animal urge to prey on other animals
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comity
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courtesy, consideration, and civility between nations in observing each other's laws and amenities
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pertinacity
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stubborn perseverance
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cupidity
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greed for money or power-on a large or small scale
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litotes
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understatement of which the British are fond.
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disconsolate
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describes a person wtihout povision for cheer or hope.
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optimism
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tendency to take the most hopeful view
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covetousness
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the excessive desire for that which one has no right to possess.
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saturnine
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gloomy and grave,
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amenity
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a pleasing way or custom
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integrity
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moral soundness, uprightness
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nonchalance
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indifference, unconcern
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amenable
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liable
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melancholy
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darkly sad and gloomy
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integrate
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to make open and available to all, to integrate a school is to make it opne and available to all races.
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despondent
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feels hopeless, gloomy, dejected, and near despair
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hyperbole
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exaggeration for rhetorical effect
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splentic
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bad-tempered, peevish, irritable
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disintegrate
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physically or morally to deteriorate, degenerate, and thus lose one's wholeness or soundness.
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criterion
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basis or standard for judgent
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unintegrated
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something that has not yet been organized or analyzed
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misanthropic
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describes a person hating humanity, and that can hardly have an optimistic view of the future.
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intuition
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instinctive knowledge
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avarice
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greed a shade more intense, with determination to match.
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tuition
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the cahrge for instuction in a college or private school.
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diplomacy
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courteous, tactful strategy in gianing national or personal ends
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etiquette
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codified propriety in social situations
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pessimism
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tendency to expect the worst
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civility
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politeness in a routine and impersonal way
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buoyancy
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cheerfulness of spirit
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cynical
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distrusts human motives
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rapacity
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violence or greed, eagerness for plunder
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integer
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a whole number
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optimum
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most favorable
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