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32 Cards in this Set
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peremptory : adj
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having the nature of a command in that it does not allow discussion, contradiction, or refusal
Syn: binding, obligatory, mandatory, prescriptive categorical unconditional positive emphatic concerted despotic tyrannical high-handed Ant: tentative contingent provisional irresolute indecisive hesitant mild unassuming diffident |
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Perjure : verb
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To lie deliberately while under oath to tell the truth
Syn: bear false witness, give false testimony, forswear, prevaricate |
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Permeate : verb
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to spread through: to penetrate.
Syn: pervade, infiltrate, diffuse, saturate, impregnate, imbue, filter into, seep through, soak through. |
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Pernicious : adj
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Highly injurious or harmful
Syn: deleterious, detrimental, malignan, baneful. Ant:wholesome, beneficial, salutary, salubrious |
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Persevere : verb
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To continue steadfastly despite obstacles or discouragement.
Syn: persist, endure, plug away at. Ant: quit, desist, give up on, abandon. |
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Phobia : noun
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An intense irraational fear of something: any strong aversion.
Syn: dread, horror, aversion, distaste, abhorrence, antipathy, loathing Ant: liking, taste, partiality, fondness, affinity, predilection |
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Plagarism : noun
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The use of another person's writings or ideas as one's own withough acknowledging their source.
Syn: theft piracy |
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Plaintive : adj
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Sorrowful or melancholy; mournful
Syn: doleful, dolorous, disconsolate, lachrymose, wistful, heartbroken, tearful, lugubrious Ant: merry, jocund, cheerful, light-hearted |
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Plethora : noun
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Superabundance or excess
Syn: profusion, welter, superfluity, glut, surplus, surfeit, deluge, avalanche. Ant: Scarcity, paucity, dearth, shortage, lack, want |
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Poignant : adj
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Keenly touching or moving
Syn: heartbreaking, tender, heartrending, wistful, affecting, melancholy, elegiac, bittersweet Ant: unaffecting, bland, vapid, insipid |
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Precarious : adj
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Dangerously insecure, unstable, or uncertain.
Syn: perilous, hazardous, risky, treacherous, dubious, touch-and-go, ticklish, touchy, delicate. Ant: safe, secure, stable, firm, certain, impregnable. |
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Precocious : adj
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Developing unusually early
Syn: forward, gifted: advanced; premature Ant: Backward, retarted, underdeveloped, laggard |
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Predatory : adj
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Preying on, plundering, or piratical
Syn: marauding, pillaging, looting, rapacious, voracious, avaricious, extortionate. |
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Prelude : noun
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An introductory piece of music; anything that precedes or introduces something else.
Syn: overture, prologue, preface, curtain raiser Ant: postlude, epilogue, aftermath, sequel, |
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Premise : n & v
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a. A statement upon which an argument is based or from which a conclusion is drawn
b. to state or assume as the basis for something else; to offer in advance as an explanation of, or introduction to, something else Syn: proposition, axiom, thesis, hypothesis, assumption; preface, introduce; posit, predicate; presuppose |
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prerogative : noun
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A special right or privilege that belongs to a person or group by virtue of rank, position, or the like
Syn: perquisite, advantage, benefit, birthright |
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Probity : noun
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Unquestionably honesty or uprightness.
Syn: integrity, rectitude, ethcality, righteousness, honorableness, decency. Ant: unscrupulousness, underhandedness, shadiness, knavery, chicanery, skulduggery. |
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Procrastinate : verb
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To delay Action
Syn: postpone, shilly-shally, dilly-dally, temporize, stall Ant: act, take action, settle, decide, dispose, take care of. |
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Prodigious : adj
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Extraordinary in size or extent, marvelous
Syn: tremendous, stupendous, mammoth, vast, gargantuan, immense, massive, enormous, phenomenal, fabulous, incredible, wondrous Ant: puny, tiny, minute, trivial, minuscule, negligible, infinitesimal, unexceptional, undustinguished, unimpressive, mediocre |
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Proliferate : verb
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To increase rapidly in size or abundance
Syn: burgeon, snowball, mushroom ,thrive, multiply, spread, prosper, flourish, expand, escalate, accelerate Ant: decline, diminish, wane, taper off, decrease, peter out, subside, dwindle |
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Prodigious : adj
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Extraordinary in size or extent; marvelous
Syn: tremendous, stupendous, mammoth, vast, gargantuan, immense, massive, enormous, phenomenal, fabulous, incredible, wondrous. Ant: puny, tiny, minute, trivial, minuscule, negligible, infinitesimal; unexceptional, undistinguished, unimpressive, mediocre |
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Proliferate : verb
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To increase rapidly in size or abundance.
Syn: burgeon, snowball, mushroom, thrive, multiply, spread, prosper, flourish, expand, escalate, accelerate. Ant: decline, diminish, wane, taper-off, decrease, peter out, subside, dwindle. |
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Promulgate : verb
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To announce officially, as a law or decree.
Syn: proclaim, decree, broadcast, publish, disseminate. Ant: Conceal, keep secret |
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Propensity : noun
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A natural tendency or inclination.
Syn: penchant, proclivity, capacity, predilection, bent, gift, genius, preference, fondness Ant: aversion, repugnance, disinclination, antipathy, immunity |
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Propitiate : verb
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To appease or pacify.
Syn: mollify, placate, conciliate Ant: antagonize, alienate, exasperate, vex, anger, annoy, incense. |
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Protracted : adj
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Extended or prolonged excessively.
Syn: drawn-out, elongated, interminable, endless, long-winded. Ant: contracted, compressed, truncated, brief, foreshortened, curtailed. |
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Prowess : noun
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Superior courage, ability, or skill.
Syn: valor, gallantry, daring, bravery, intrepidity; mettle, pluck; expertise, facility, proficiency Ant: cowardice, timidity; incompetence, ineptitude. |
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Pseudonym : noun
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A fictitious name assumed by an author.
Syn: pen name, nom de plume, alias |
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Purge : verb & noun
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a. To cleanse or purify, especially to rid a group of undesirable elements.
b. A medicine that cleanses; the elimination of undesirable elements from a group. Syn: flush out; eject; expel; liquidate, exterminate, weed out; expiate, clear; physic, laxative; pogrom. |
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Pusillanimous : adj
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Contemptibly cowardly or mean spirited.
Syn: timid, timorous, frigtened, fearful, spineless, gutless, lily-livered, fainthearted. Ant: bold, daring, intrepid, courageous, spirited, dynamic, forceful. |
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Quell : verb
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To bring to an end, usually by force; to quiet or pacify.
Syn: suppress, extinguish, subdue, stamp out, quash, squelch, crush, put down; silence, calm, allay, assuage Ant: instigate, foment, provoke, incite, kindle; enflame, arouse, stir up. |
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Quixotic : adj
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High minded but impractical.
Syn: idealistic, visionary, fanciful, unrealistic, utopian, chimerical Ant: realistic, practical, down-to-earth. |
