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85 Cards in this Set
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Elan |
Noun. An enthusiastic vigor and liveliness spirit a flair |
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Dissipate |
Verb. To cause to dissapear, to scatter, dispel, to spend foolishly, squander, to be extravagant in pursuit of pleasure |
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Disavow |
Verb. To deny responsibility for or connection with |
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Conducive |
Adj. Tending to promote or assist. Helpful. Favorable. |
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Expurgate |
Verb. To remove objectional passages or words from a written text. To cleanse. Purify |
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Dispassionate |
Adj. Impartial. Calm. Free from emotion. |
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Consternation |
Dismay. Confusion. |
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Dissension |
Noun. Disagreement sharp difference of opinion |
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Bovine |
Adj. Resembling a cow or ox |
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Acrimonious |
Adj. Stinging bitter in temper or tone |
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Corpulent |
Adj. Fat. Having a large, bulky body |
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Subservient |
Adj. Subordinate in capacity or role. Serving to promote some end submissively obedient |
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Perfidy |
Faithlessness treachery |
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Hypothetical |
Adj. Based on an assumption or guess. Used as a provisional or tentative idea top guide or direct investigation. |
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Impugn |
Verb. To call into question. Attack as false |
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Odium |
Noun. Hated. Contempt. Disgrace or infamy resulting from hateful conduct |
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Intemperate |
Adj. Immoderate lacking in self control inclement |
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Ignoble |
Mean low base |
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Squeamish |
Adj. Inclined to nausea easily shocked or upset excessive fastidious or refined |
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Susceptible |
Adj. Open to easily influenced lacking in resistance |
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Gauntlet |
Noun. An armored or protective glove. A challenge top combat. Two lines of men armed with weapons with which to beat a person forced to run between them. Noun. An ordeal |
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Relegated |
Verb. To place in a lower position to assign refer turn over to banish |
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Adulation |
Noun. Praise or flattery that us excessive |
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Evanescent |
Adj. Vanishing. Soon passing away. Light and airy |
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Dilatory |
Adj. Not on time. Not prompt. Tending to delay |
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Abate |
Verb. To make less in amount. Degree. Etc. To subside. Become less. To nulify. To deduct. Omit |
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Irresolute |
Adj. Unable to make up ones mind. Hesitating. |
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Astute |
Adj. Shrewd crafty. Showing practical wisdom. |
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Avarice |
Noun. A greedy desire particularly for wealth |
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Egregious |
Adj. Conspicuous. Standing out from the mass |
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Culpable |
Adj. Deserving blame with our condemnation |
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Anathema |
Noun. An object of intense dislike a curse or strong denunciation. |
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Equivote |
Verb. To speak or act in a way that allows for more than one interpretation to be deliberately vague or ambiguous |
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Slovenly |
Adj. Untidy. Dirty. Careless |
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Supposition |
Noun. Something that is assumed or taken for granted without conclusive evidence |
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Succint |
Adj. Expressed briefly and clearly lacking in fullness of cut |
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Recapitulate |
To review a series of facts to sum up |
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Nebulous |
Adj. Cloudlike resembling a cloud cloudy in color not transparent vague confuse indistinct |
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Resuscitate |
To revive verb. Bring back to consciousness or existence |
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Torpid |
Adj. Inactive sluggish dull |
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Novice |
Noun. One who is just a beginner at some activity requiring skill and experience |
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Provocative |
Tending to produce strong feelings. |
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Sedentary |
Continued sitting |
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Imperious |
Seeking to dominate. Overbearing |
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Gratuitous |
Unwarranted not called for freely given |
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Procrastinate |
Delay |
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Recondite |
Exceeding ordinary knowledge |
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Munificent |
Extremely generous |
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Inimical |
Unfriendly. Hostile |
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Motley |
Showing great diversity |
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Invective |
Abusive language wicked corrupt |
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Reprobrate |
Depraved vicious unprincipled |
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Fortuitous |
Accidental happening by chance |
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Covert |
Hidden Sheltered shelter |
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Bedlam |
Scene of uproar |
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Debonair |
Pleasant smooth polished |
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Annotation |
Critical note or comment |
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Gist |
Essential part main point |
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Efficacious |
Effective producing results |
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Accrue |
Grow accumulate naturally |
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Dun |
Demand insistently ($$$) |
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Equanimity |
Calmness composure |
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Antediluvian |
Relating to or typical of ancient times |
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Specious |
Deceptive apparently good but lacking real merit |
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Perceptive |
Having sympathetic insight or understanding |
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Palpable |
Capable of being seen or felt |
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Sear |
Make or become dry |
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Satiate |
Satisfy completely |
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Gauche |
Awkward. Lacking social graced |
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Inculcate |
Impress by repetition |
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Heresy |
Opinion diff from accepted belief. |
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Pernicious |
Extremely harmful deadly |
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Quail |
Shrink back in fear |
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Salient |
Leaping springing forth. Landform that projects |
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Denizon |
Inhabitant resident one who frequents a place |
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Contingent |
Likely but not certain. Representative group |
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Foist |
Impose by fraud. |
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Corroborate |
Confirm make certain |
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Abstemious |
Moderate sparing |
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Disseminate |
Scatter widely |
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Florid |
Red. Highly colored. |
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Censurable |
Deserving blame or correction |
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Discursive |
Passing aimlessly from one subject to the next |
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Dowdy |
Poorly dressed |
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Accentuate |
Emphasize |
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