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30 Cards in this Set
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Circumlocution
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Use of unnecessary words
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Feckless
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Lacking efficiency, irresponsible, powerless, helpless.
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Tempestuous
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Characterized by strong and turbulent or conflicting emotion. Very stormy.
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Subjugate
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To bring under dominance/control, esp. by conquest. Make someone or something subordinate to.
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Loquacious
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Talkative
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Abjure
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Solemnly renounce (a belief, cause, or claim); forswear.
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Omnipotent
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(Of a deity) Having unlimited power; able to do anything.
God. Almighty, all-powerful. |
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Orthography
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The conventional spelling system of a language. Spelling. The study of spelling and how letters combine to represent sounds and form words.
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Facetious
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Treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor; flippant.
Humorous - jocular - waggish - comic - funny |
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Quotidian
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Occurring daily, regularly.
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Deciduous
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Denoting the milk teeth of a mammal, which are shed after a time. To shed. Shedding its leaves annually.
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Winnow
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To blow. Remove (chaff) from grain. Blow a current of air through (grain) in order to remove the chaff.
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Enervate
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To drain of energy; Lacking in energy or vitality.
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Ziggurat
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A rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple.
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Hypotenuse
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The longest side of a right triangle, opposite the right angle.
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Antebellum
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Occurring or existing before a particular war, esp. the American Civil War, prewar.
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Abrogate
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Repeal or do away with (a law, right, or formal agreement). Cancel - abolish - annul - rescind - repeal - revoke
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Hemoglobin
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A red protein responsible for transporting oxygen in the blood of vertebrates.
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Deleterious
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Causing harm or damage, detrimental, harmful.
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Obsequious
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Obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree.
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Expurgate
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Purge (Rid [someone] of an unwanted feeling, memory, or condition). Remove matter thought to be objectionable or unsuitable from (a book or account).
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Soliloquy
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An act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, esp. by a character in a play.
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Nonsectarian
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Not involving or relating to a specific religious sect or political group.
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Tectonic
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Of or relating to the structure of the earth's crust and the large-scale processes that take place within it. Very significant or considerable: "the last decade has witnessed a tectonic shift in world affairs". Structural - constructional - architectonic
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Diffident
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Modest or shy because of a lack of self-confidence. Shy - timid - bashful - sheepish - shamefaced - coy
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Mitosis
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A type of cell division that results in two daughter cells each the same as the parent nucleus, typical of ordinary tissue growth.
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Homogeneous
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Of the same kind; alike. Consisting of parts all of the same kind. uniform - similar
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Chicanery
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The use of trickery to achieve a political, financial, or legal purpose.
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Equinox
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Either of the two times during a year when the sun crosses the celestial equator and when the length of day and night are approximately equal; the vernal equinox or the autumnal equinox. Either of two points on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator.
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Reciprocal
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Given, felt, or done in return. Relationship in which an act or movement of one party is met (or countered) with a corresponding act or movement of the other.
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