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62 Cards in this Set
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song of joyful praise or exhaltation
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paean
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used often in poetry
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veil or headcovering; burkah
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chador
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Muslim women
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proceeding in a gradual, subtle way; spreading harmful effects
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insidious
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disease
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harsh or corrosive in tone
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vitriolic
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angry mother
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mournful, dismal, or gloomy to an exaggerated degree
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lugubrious
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Marvin, everyone's favourite Paranoid Android
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having great wisdom and discernment
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sapient
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Dumbledore
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physically painful; keenly distressing to the mind or feelings; piercing
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poignant
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Melanie Quallich's violin playing
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habitual lazyness; sloth
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indolence
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Jordan in Calculus
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using, containing, or marked by harshly abusive censure
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vituperative
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a scarce supply; a lack; shortage of food; famine
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dearth
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Angela's Ashes
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lasting for a markedly brief time
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ephemeral
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a second
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a scholarly or learned man
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pandit/pundit
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Issac Newton
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unselfish concern for the welfare of others; selflessness
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altruism
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L'Éveque dans les Misérables
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superiority in weight, force, importance, or influence
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preponderance
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Hippo-the-Sis
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one who has a meek, timid, unassertive nature
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milquetoast
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Neville Longbottom
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a definite liking; a strong inclination
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penchant
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Mrs. Pavlou and chocolate
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incapable or seemingly incapable of being fatigued; tireless
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indefatigable
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Forrest Gump
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a strong feeling of aversion or repugnance
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antipathy
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My sentiments toward Martinique
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scornfully or cynically mocking; sarcastic
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sardonic
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Mr. Lee
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terse and energetic in expression; precisely meaningful; given to pompous moralizing
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sententious
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The Catholic Church
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not capable of being persuaded by entreaty; relentless
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inexorable
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Palpatine
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spotlessly clean and fresh
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unsullied
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opposite of Miss Marvin's desk
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immoral or unchaste; unrestrainedly excessive; frolicsome; playful; spoiled
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wanton
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Zach's pigging out
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deviating from the proper or expected course or from what is normal; untrue to type
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aberrant
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Tim Burton's goal
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feeling or showing hauty disdain
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supercilious
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Blanche from Jane Eyre
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contented to a fault; self-satisfied and unconcerned
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complacent
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Steven Han
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pretentious; showy; boastful
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ostentatious
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Joy's music choices
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easy and pleasant to speak to; approachable; gentle and gracious
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affable
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Sara Strauch
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minor weakness or failing of a character
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foible
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Hamlet has many of these.
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noisily and stubbornly defiant; aggressively boisterous
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obstreperous
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Rascal as he greets strangers at the door
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offense; resentment
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umbrage
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scared of centaurs?
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warlike in manner or temperment; pugnacious; inclined or eager to fight
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bellicose
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Motion City... belligerent anyone?
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excessively dramatic or emotional
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histrionic
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Sarah Duncan
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state of mental or physical inactivity or insensibility; lethargy; apathy
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torpor
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How I feel after finals
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excessively ornate or complex in style of language
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turgid
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Shakespeare
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foreboding; full of unspecifiable significance; exciting wonder and awe
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portentous
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grossly wicked or reprehensible; abominable
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heinous
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Hitler's Jew-killing crusade
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abnormally pale or wan complexion; lacking color, radiance or vitality; dull
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pallid
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Missy's skin
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a gallant or chivalrous man; a gentleman; a mounted soldier; knight
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cavalier
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Don Quixote
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deserving of blame; improper; guilty
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culpable
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a murderer
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submissive; slavish; of or relaing to servitude or forced labor
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servile
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Dobby
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to picture falsely; misrepresent; to contradict
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belie
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having the ring of truth or plausibility but actually false; deceptively attractive
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specious
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Narnia's White Queen and her appeal to Edmund
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to make greater, as in size, extent, or quantity
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augment
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saving money
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a medicine whose effectiveness is unproved; a quack remedy; untested remedy for problems or evils
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nostrum
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witch doctor
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excessively sparing or frugal
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parsimonious
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cheap-skate
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seeking and enjoying the company of others; sociable
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gregarious
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the opposite of Alix
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to make known subtly and indirectly; hint
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intimate
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to allay the anger of; appease; pacify
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placate
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cut short crisply; detached; composed of abrupt, disconnected parts or sounds
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staccato
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my least favourite style of playing
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having or assuming the relationship of child or offspring to parent
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filial
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father's love for son
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extremely careful and precise; concerned with details
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meticulous
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oh, dear... me
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relating to or resembling an ape or a monkey
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simian
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George Bush
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seize the day
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carpe diem
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Newsies
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beginning to exist or appear
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incipient
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toughened; emotionally hardened
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callous
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Jean Valjean after prison
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having an offensive odor
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fetid
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GAS
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subject to whim; impulsive and unpredicatble
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capricious
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done routinely and with little interest or care; acting with indifference
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perfunctory
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Bridget jones, mating lions
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uncertain or indecisive as to which course to follow
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ambivalent
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the fickleness of Molière's characters
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notorious; ill fame; known widely and usually unfavorably; infamous
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notoriety
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Al Capone
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a person who renounces material comforts and leads a life of self-discipline, especially as an act of religious devotion
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ascetic
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monk
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