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70 Cards in this Set
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REPRESSION
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Unconscious exclusion of painful impulses, desires, or fears
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CHAMOIS
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Piece of cloth
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SIMONIZE
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To polish and wax
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AVID
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Ardent desire
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APPROBATION
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Warm approval; praise
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TREPIDATION
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Alarm or dread; apprehension
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CRESTFALLEN
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Dispirited and depressed
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MERCURIAL
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Changeable
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REMINISCENCES
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Recollecting past experiences or events
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POMPOUS
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Excessive self-esteem; arrogance
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INCIPIENT
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Being apparent
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ANEMIC
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Lacking vitality; weak
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INCARNATE
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Invested with bodily nature and form
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TAUNTINGLY
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Incite, mock, insult
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PRIMPS
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To groom oneself
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SCRIM
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woven cotten or linen fabric
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LACONIC
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Use of few words
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DISPEL
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To rid one's mind of
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PHILANDERING
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Ingage in love affairs
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VALISE
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A small piece of hand luggage
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IGNORAMUS
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Stupid person
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IMBUE
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To inspire or influence
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STOLID
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Revealing little emotion or sensibility
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AUDACITY
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Fearless
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SURLY
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Anger
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REMISS
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Lacks in duty
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AURA
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Quality that seems to cover a person
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PAWNED
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A deposit, something given as security for a loan
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LIMBERING
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Bending, contorting
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CARTE BLANCHE
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Unrestricted power
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MYSTIFY
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To confuse or puzzle mentally
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GRANDLY
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Large and impressive in size
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PENNANTS
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Flag
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CANDIDLY
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Openness, sincerity
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SOTTO VOCE
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Soft tones
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LAVISHLY
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Wasteful manner
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BEFUDDLED
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To confuse; perplex
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ARCHLY
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Craftly
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IMPLACABLY
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Impossible to placate, appease, or pacify
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FLARE
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Intensify, errupt
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OMINOUSLY
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Evil omen
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SELF-LOATHING
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Dislake of oneself
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ELEGIACALLY
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Involving elegy or mourning or expressing sorrow
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REQUIEM
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Service of the dead
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SEETHING
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State of turmoil or fermnt
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PULSATION
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A single beat, throb, or vibration
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STOOP
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A small porch
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IDYLLIC
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Simple and carefree
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DORMER
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A window set vertically into a small gable projecting from a sloping roof
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CRUDE
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Lacking taste or tact; blunt
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AFFLICTION
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A condition of pain, suffering, or distress
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ENTHRALLED
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To hold spellbound; captivate
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KNICKERS
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Long bloomers; underwear
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ADONIS
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Any handsome young man
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ROLLICK
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Move in a carefree manner
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REGENTS
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One who rules during the absence of a monarch
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EVASIVE
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escape, avoid
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SACCHARINE
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Having a cloyingly sweet attitude
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LOCAL
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Of or relating to a particular place
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OBSTREPEROUS
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Noisily and stubbornly defiant
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JUXTAPOSE
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To place side by side for comparison or contrast
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INSINUTES
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Induce or insert by settle or artful means
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CONFRERE
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A fellow member of a fraternity
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TENABLE
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Capable of being maintained in arugments
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FEASIBLE
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possible
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TRANSPARENT
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easily seen thru or transparent
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FALTER
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Stumble
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NARCISSISM
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Excessive love or admiration of oneself
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DARWINISM
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Notion of natural selection; survival of the fitess
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MENAGERIE
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A collection of live wild animals or exhibition
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