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15 Cards in this Set
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VENERATE
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regard with great respect
SYNONYMS:respect, honor, admire, worship, revere |
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SADISTIC
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getting pleasure from hurting others
SYNONYMS: brutal, vicious, perversely |
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MALAPROPISM
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ridiculous or humorous misuse of words
SYNONYMS: misusage, verbal blunder, spoonerism |
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PRAGMATIC
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practical
SYNONYMS: sensible, workable, utilitarian |
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DISPARAGE
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refer to something as having little importance; speaking slightingly of
SYNONYMS: degrade, minimize, downgrade, belittle |
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VEGETATE
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lead a dull, inactive, useless life
SYNONYMS: be idle, be sluggish, stagnate |
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ADAMANT
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unyielding, inflexible, definite
SYNONYMS: firm, rigid, immovable, fixed, unchangeable, obdurate |
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CONJUGAL
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of marriage; pertaining to the relationship between husband and wife
SYNONYMS: married, matrimonial, wedded, marital |
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ABOMINABLE
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utterly disguisting or hateful
SYNONYMS: revolting, horrible, awful, loathsome |
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OMINOUS
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threatening; suggestive of future evil
SYNONYMS: unfavorable, unlucky, sinister, menacing, ill-omened, foreboding |
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ASSENT
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agreement; agree
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DISSENT
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disagreement; disagree
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PRESENTIMENT
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vague expectation or feeling of something about to happen
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SENTENTIOUS
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concise and full of meaning; using or full of proverbs and old sayings in a self-important, high-sounding, or boring way
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SENTIMENT
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feeling or opinion
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