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49 Cards in this Set
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Ebullient
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Showing excitement, overflowing with enthusiam
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Eclectic
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Selective
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Efficacy
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power to produce desired effect
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Effontory
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Shameless boldness
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Elegy
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poem or song expressing lamentation
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Elicit
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draw out by discussion
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Embellish
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adorn, ornament, enhance
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Empirical
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based on experience
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Emulate
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Imitate, rival
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Endemic
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prevailing among a specific group of people
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Enervate
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weaken
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Engender
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cause, produce
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Enhance
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improve, increase
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Ephemeral
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short-lived, fleeting
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Equanimity
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calmness of temperament, composure
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Equivocate
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lie, mislead
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Erudite
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learned, scholarly
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Esoteric
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hard to understand, known only to few
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Eulogy
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expression of praise, often on the occasion of someone's death
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Euphemism
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mild expression in place of an unpleasant one
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Exacerbate
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worsen, embitter
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Exculpate
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clear from blame
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Exigency
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urgent situation
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Extrapolation
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projection, conjecture
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Facetious
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joking, humorous
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Facilitate
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help bring about
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Fallacious
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false, misleading
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Fatuous
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foolish, inane
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Fawning
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courting favour by clinging and flattering
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Felicitous
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apt, suitably expressed
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Fervor
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glowing ardor, intensity of feeling
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Flag
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droop, grow feeble
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Fledling
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inexperienced
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Flout
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Reject, mock
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Foment
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stir up, instigate
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Forestall
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prevent by taking action in advance
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Frugality
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thrift, economy
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Futile
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useless, hopeless
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Gainsay
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deny
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Garrulous
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loquacious, talkative
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Goad
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urge on
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Gouge
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overcharge
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Grandiloquent
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pompous, bombastic, using high sounding language
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Gregarious
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sociable
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Guileless
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without deceit
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Gullible
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easily deceived
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Harangue
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long, passionate, vehement speech, criticise
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Homogeneous
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of the same kind
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Hyperbole
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exaggeration, overstatement
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