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20 Cards in this Set
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quick, superficial, perfunctory
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cursory
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careful, fastidious, painstaking, fussy
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meticulous
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risk, hazard, peril
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jeopardy
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workable practicable viable
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feasible
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to revert; to degenerate, decline
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retrogress
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fraud, double-dealing, chicanery
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duplicity
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a conflagration; devastation; annihilation
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holocaust
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A longing for things past; homesickness
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nostalgia
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impenetrable; resistant, proof against
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impervious
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an impulse, incentive, stimulus, spur
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impetus
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disinclined, opposed, loath
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averse
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congenial, neighborly, cordial
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amicable
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a pained expression, facial contortion
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grimace
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lukewarm; insipid; halfhearted, wishy-washy
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tepid
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the purest essence; a paragon, exemplar
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quintessence
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kindly, benign, well-meaning
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benevolent
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to inspect, examine, pore over
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scrutinize
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clever, deft, dexterous, slick
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adroit
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to glorify, applaud, acclaim, hail
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extol
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assertive, truculent, pugnacious
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belligerent
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