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50 Cards in this Set
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brevity |
briefness |
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extrovert |
an outgoing person |
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impassioned |
filled with emotion; fervent |
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gall |
boldness; impudence |
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remnant |
a small amount left over after the rest has been used; a surviving trace |
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genial |
cheerful; friendly |
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alacrity |
cheerful willingness; swiftness |
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elude |
to escape from as by daring or skill; to escape the understanding of |
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dally |
to waste time; loiter |
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inadvertent |
unintentional; accidental |
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mainstay |
a chief support |
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manacles |
shackles; handcuffs |
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affinity |
a natural attraction or feeling of kinship; an inherent similarity |
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denouement |
conclusion; resolution; the falling action of a story after its climax |
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exhort |
to urge strongly |
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torpid |
inactive; sluggish; dormant |
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garrulous |
talking too much esp. about trivial things |
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insolent |
boldly disrespectful in speech or behavior; impertinent; impudent |
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cozen |
to defraud or decieve; to obtain by deciet; to get someone to do something by wheedling |
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congenital |
present since birth; being an essential characteristic |
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divert |
to change the direction of; to amuse |
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ascribe |
to attribute to a specific source |
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debonair |
easy and carefree in manner |
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aloof |
distant or removed in attitude or manner |
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maraud |
to raid; to invade for plunder |
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waif |
a homeless person, esp a child or orphan; someone who is thin and gaunt esp. a girl |
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ward |
to repel or turn aside (danger, attack, harm, etc.) usually with "off" |
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scorn |
a feeling of contempt or disdain |
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envoy |
a government representative sent on a special diplomatic mission; a messanger |
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sumptuous |
of a size or spendor suggesting great expense; lavish |
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gesticulate |
to make gestures esp. while speaking |
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feckless |
careless; ireesponsible |
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ferret |
to search; to seek (with "out") |
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mediocre |
ordinary to inferior in quality; not standing out from the average |
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hiatus |
an interruption in activity or progress |
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prose |
the ordinary form of written or spoken language, without rhyme or meter |
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painstaking |
very thorough; careful |
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crass |
dull-witted; unrefined |
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corpus |
a large collection of writings |
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motif |
a recurring subject or theme esp in a work of art or literature |
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compendium |
a short, complete summary |
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scintilla |
a small amount; a spark |
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abjure |
to renounce under oath; to give up or deny |
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palpitate |
to beat rapidly; to shake or flutter |
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inept |
without skill; absurd or foolish |
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dismal |
causing gloom or depression |
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avuncular |
resembling an uncle; benevolent |
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countenance |
appearance esp. the expression of the face |
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avant-garde |
a group active in inventing and applying new techniques esp. in the arts |
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pedigree |
record of ancestry; family tree |
