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20 Cards in this Set
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Reprisal
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Act of retaliation, especially in war
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Precision
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Exactness, accuracy
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Mediocre
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Average, commonplace
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Transient
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Fleeting, short-lived
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Adroit
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Skillful, clever
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Prodigious
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Enormous, marvelous, superhuman
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Facile
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Easily done, moving quickly or easily
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Illusion
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Something not what it appears to be
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Opulence
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Wealth, abundance
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Prosaic
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Dull, monotonous, uninteresting
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Spontaneous
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Arising naturally from within, bubbling up
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Despot
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A ruler with absolute power, a tyrant
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Subtle
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Delicate, artful, requiring acuteness
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Reminiscence
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A calling to mind, recollection
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Punitive
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Intended to punish, bringing punishment
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Effigy
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Image, likeness
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Affinity
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Attraction, kinship
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Proximity
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Nearness
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Hybrid
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A cross between two varieties
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Feline
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Catlike, sly, stealthy
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