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40 Cards in this Set
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immutable
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unchanging; permanent
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credulous
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believing; gullible
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coalesce
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to come together; to merge; to join
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lax
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careless; not diligent; relaxed
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ambivalent
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undecided
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innate
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inborn; inherited
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sycophant
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a servile, self seeking flatterer
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esoteric
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understood only by a select few
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levity
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flippancy; humor
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caustic
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burning; uncomplimentary
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scrupulous
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careful; diligent; moral
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respite
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a rest; a pause; a break
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hedonistic
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pleasure-seeking; indulgent
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idiom
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a peculiar, untranslatable expression
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brevity
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breifness
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amity
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friendship
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lethargic
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tired; languid
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bastion
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stronghold; fortress
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fortuitous
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accidental; happening by chance
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assuage
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to soothe
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torpid
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sluggish; lethargic
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supercilious
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haughty; arrogant
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verbose
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wordy; overly talkative
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pedestrian
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common; ordinary
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contrite
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deeply apologetic
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parsimony
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stinginess
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blithe
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free-spirited
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dearth
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a lack
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irascible
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irritable
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sacchrarin
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sickly sweet; falsely sweet
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tenacious
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tought; hard to defeat
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drone
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to talk on and on
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emulate
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to compy somehting admired; to imitate
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paucity
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scarity; lack
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innocuous
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harmless
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meander
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to wander slowly
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diffidence
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shyness
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auspicious
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favorable; looking up
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desecrate
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to profane a holy place
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cryptic
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mysterious; puzzling; enigmatic
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