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59 Cards in this Set
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Prolific
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Producing in great quanity
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salient
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standing out from the rest
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Engendered
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to produce; or cause
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Overature
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Beginning
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moribund
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dying
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Anomaly
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Deviation from what is normal
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Assuage
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To make something unpleasant less severe
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Enigma
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Puzzle;mystery
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Erudite
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learned, scholorly, bookish
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Fervid
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intensly emotional, feverish
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Lucid
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clear, easily understood
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Opaque
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impossible to see through; prevent passage of light
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Placate
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to sooth or pacify
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Prodigal
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lavish, wasteful
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Zeal
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passion, excitement
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Abstain
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to choose not to do something
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Apathy
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lack of interest or emotion
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Capricious
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changing ones mind quick and often
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Laudable
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to give praise, glorify
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Pendant
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someone who shows off learning
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propriety
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correct behavior;obedience to rules and customs
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adulterate
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to make impure
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audacious
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fearless, daring
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Desiccate
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to dry out thoroughly
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Ephemeral
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lasting a short time
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Laconic
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using a few words
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Loquacious
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talkative
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pragmatic
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practical
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vacillate
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to sway physically; to be indecisive
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antipathy
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Extreme Dislike
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Cacophony
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harsh, jaring noise
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Deride
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to speak of or treat with contemp; mock
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Dissonance
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a harshened disagreeable combination, often of sounds
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Enervate
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to reduce in strength
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Eulogy
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speech in praise of someone
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Garrulous
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Tending to talk alot
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Ingenuous
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showing innocense or childlike simplicity
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Lethargic
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acting in slow sluggish movements
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Malleable
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capable of being shaped
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Misanthrope
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person disliking others
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Obderate
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hardened in feeling;
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Ostentation
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excessive showiness
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prevaricate
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to lie
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Vernerate
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respect deeply
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waver
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fluctuate between choices
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conscription
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forced
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Rheteric
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effective communication
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malediction
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A curse; Evil speech
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diluvial
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of or having to do with a flood; made up of debris left by a flood.
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spartan
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Bare and simple
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fecundity
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ability to reproduce
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quixotic
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not sensible about practical matters; idealistic and unrealistic
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temerity
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audacity; fearless daring
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intransigent
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adamant: impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason
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jejune
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boring, uninteresting
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Boorish
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rude;ill manored
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Nascent
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beginning to form
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Feint
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deceptive act or sham
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Alacrity
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Cheerful willingness to serve
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