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50 Cards in this Set
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Amiable |
generally agreeable; friendly disposition |
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Gregarious |
tending to flock together; associating with one's kind |
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Segregate |
to separate or set apart; isolate |
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Empathy |
experiencing other's emotions as your own; similar to sympathy |
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Diffident |
timid; lacking confidence; reserved and unassertive |
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Fidelity |
being faithful; allegiance; loyalty |
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Perfidious |
treachery; being unfaithful or disloyal; betrayal |
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Lucid |
luminous; suffused with light; esp. clear minded |
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Translucent |
to see through; clear - as in the type of powder |
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Acrid |
unpleasantly pungent in taste or smell (the sulfur smell) |
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Acute |
marked by sharpness or severity; intellectual perception |
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Exacerbate |
harsh, bitter; to make more violent or severe |
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Affluent |
abundance; wealthy; abundance of material possessions |
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Superfluous |
exceeding what is sufficient or necessary; extra |
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Complacent |
self-satisfied; calm or secure; satisfaction; mediocre |
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Placate |
to calm the angry; soothe; appease someone who is angry |
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Placid |
calm; undisturbed; peaceful |
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Anachronism |
something from a former age incongruous in the present; reenactment of history |
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Chronological |
arranged in or according to the order of time; the order of events |
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Synchronize |
to happen at the same time . . . i.e. the swimmers at the Olympics |
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Circumspect |
to consider all circumstances ad possible consequences; prudent |
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Spacious |
having more than ample room; extensive |
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impugn |
to challenge the honesty or character of someone/something |
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Pugnacious |
having a quarrelsome or belligerent nature; combative |
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Repugnant |
contrary; incompatible; distasteful; repulsive |
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Ecstatic |
full of joy and rapture; delight |
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Exhilarated |
invigorate; to make cheerful or jolly; lively sense of well-being |
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Exuberant |
great abundance; plenteous; filled with life, vigor, and high spirits |
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Despondent |
extreme discouragement, dejection, or depression |
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Dejected |
low spirited; sad; to cast down |
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Dogged/Obdurate/Recalcitrant |
hardened in feelings; resisting change; stubborn; defiant; defiant of authority |
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Clandestine/Furtive |
secretly; underhanded |
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Surreptitious |
to seize secretly; done by stealth |
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Assuage |
to ease; quiet; to lessen the intensity of... |
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Mitigate |
to make less severe |
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Banal |
feudal service; trite; commonplace; ordinary |
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Prologue |
a speech often in verse addressed to the audience |
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Preface |
introductory remarks in a book; in front of... |
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Epilogue |
a concluding section that rounds out the design of a literary work |
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Addendum |
supplement to a book; extra facts, tables, or charts |
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Hiatus |
a gap in time; the actor's break in the filming of a series; a break where a part is missing |
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Moratorium |
a temporary ban or suspension; a legally authorized period of delay of performance or payment |
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Impetuous |
impulsive vehemence; force and violence; impulsive |
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Loquacious |
given to excessive talking |
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Verbose |
excessively wordy |
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Reticent |
inclined to be silent or secretive; uncommunicative |
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Taciturn |
habitually or temperamentally disinclined to talk |
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Transient |
not lasting or staying long; transitory; short in duration and passes quickly |
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Ephemeral |
daily; lasting a very short time; lasting one day only |
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Vindicate |
absolve; justify and defend; exonerate |
