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60 Cards in this Set
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deceit
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deception or trick
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Hypocrisy
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insincerity, pretending to be what one is not
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fallacious
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false, misleading, deceptive
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gouge
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to cheat or defraud someone
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specious
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false
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prevaricate
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to lie
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charlatan
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an impostor, a quack, a con artist
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fabricate
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to make up for the purpose of deception, to manufacture
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guile
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deciet, cunning, trickery, duplicity
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affected
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acting in an artifical way, putting on a false appearance
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chicanery
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deception by artful trickerey
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insidious
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treacherous, sneaky, sly
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bilk
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to defraud, cheat, swindle
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feign
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put on a false appearance, pretend for deceptive purposes
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stratagem
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plan to decieve or trick
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spurious
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counterfeit, false
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apocryphal
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doubtful origin
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follity
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merriment, fun
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jubilee
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special aniversary
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carouse
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rowdy, drunkedn marrymaking
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cavort
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to skip about, prance, excessive partying
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buoyancy
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ability to float, lightness of spirit
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effervescent
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bubbling, vivacious, exhilarated
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blithe
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filled with gaitey, cheerful, carefree, jovial
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gambol
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leap about, frolic, play
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sanguine
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cheerful, hopeful
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destitute
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impoverished
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pauper
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poor person
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insolvent
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out of money
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penury
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extreme poverty
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squalor
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filthiness caused by poverty
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mendicant
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beggar, poor person
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impecunious
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poor, having no money
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brevity
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briefness, shortness of duration
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concise
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briefy stated, succint
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terse
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effectively consise, short yet polished
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pithy
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shoty, concise, precisely meaningful
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laconic
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using a minimum number of words
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tactiturn
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disinclined to talk, silent
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sententious
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short and moralistic in expression
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irreverent
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lacking respectt
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desecrate
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to treat with disrespect
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profane
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ungodly
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heresy
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dissent from traditional beliefs
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blasphemy
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lack of respect for god, heresy
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iconoclasm
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attacking traditional ideas
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savory
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good tasting
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aromatic
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fragrant, having an agreeable odor
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euphony
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sweet sounding, pleasing to the ear
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redolent
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fragreant, having an agreeable odor
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dulcet
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pleasing to the ear, melodus
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abashed
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embarrased, made ashamed
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chagrin
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distress caused by humiliation or failure
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mortify
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to casue to suffer extreme embarrassment
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ignominy
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deep personal humiliation and disgrace
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abstract
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thoereticalm lacing substance
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amorphous
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without shape or form
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incorporeal
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without shape/body
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ethereal
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without form, heavenly
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nebulous
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vauge and indistinct
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