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51 Cards in this Set
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implacable
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unable to be calmed down or made peaceful
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meticulous
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extremely careful about details
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audacious
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fearless and daring; recklessly bold
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burnish
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to polish
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connoiseur
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a person with expert knowledge or discriminatory tastes
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convoluted
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intricate and complicated
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deference
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respect and courtesy
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dogmatic
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dictatorial in one's opinions
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erudite
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learned, scholarly, bookish
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perfunctory
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done in routine way; indifferent
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pragmatic
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pratical as opposed to idealistic
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probity
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complete honesty and integrity
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prudence
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wisdom, caution or restraint
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cynisism
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An attitude or quality of belief that all people are motivated by selfishness
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cunning
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shrewdness and craftiness; slyness
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cultivation
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The act of preparing or working land in order to grow crops
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calibrate
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to inspect, determing or correcting the graduations of an instrument by comparing it to a standard
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cultured
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possesing education, refinement and taste; polished
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consternation
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dismay; startling, distressing fear or shock that results in complete confusion
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brittle
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apt to break or crack due to a lack of elasticity; fragile
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blithe
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carefree; merry
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beneficent
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charitable and kind in action
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authoritarian
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characterized by a preference for complete obedience to authority; domineering
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effrontery
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boldness; impudenece; arrogance
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endemic
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restricted or peculiar to a particular region; indigenous
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epitome
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embodiment; quintessence
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extravagance
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lavishness; an unnecessary or unrestrained spend, esp. of funds
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facetious
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playful; humorous
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fatuous
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silly; inanely foolish
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fidelity
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faithfulness; loyalty
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ingenuity
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cleaverness, inventiveness
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intemperance
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excessive indulgence of appetite or passion, esp in regard to alchohol; lack of constraint
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intrepid
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steadfast and courageous
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superficial
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lacking depth; existing on or near the surface
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synthetic
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man-made; artificial; relating to or involving the combination of parts to make a whole
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tortuous
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winding; twisting; excessively complicated
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tractable
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docile; obedient; easily-led
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treacherous
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lacking faithfulness or loyalty; traitorous; unstable
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unfeigned
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genuine; not false or hypocritical
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unfettered
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not tied down; unrestrained
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warranted
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called for; authorized; justified
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magnanimity
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The quality if being generously noble in mind and heart. esp in forgiving.
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membrane
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thin, flexible film of tissue that covers the outside of organs
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plasticity
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flexibility; pliability; maleability
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presumptuous
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assuming an unathorized right or responsibility; overly toward and arrogrant
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pourous
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full of tiny openings able to absorb fluid or gases, permeable
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prodigious
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abundant in size, force or extent; extraordinary
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somber
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dark and depressing; mournful
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rigidity
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the quality of or state of being unyeilding or stiff
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solitious
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concerned and attentive; eager
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slight
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small; lacking substance in degree, amount or size
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