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75 Cards in this Set
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Terse |
Abrupt, brief, to the point |
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Truncate |
To shorten, to cut |
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Perspicacious/perspicacity |
Showing good judgement, wise having a ready insight into and understanding of things. |
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Summit |
Top of mountain, highest point |
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Circumlocutory |
Using too many words where few can do to be vague |
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Succinct |
Briefly and clearly expressed |
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Bucolic |
Of the village, countryside, simple |
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Decadent/decadence |
1. Overindulgent in pleasures 2. Decline in moral values |
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Salacious |
Obscene/indecent |
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Concievable |
Possible, imaginable, believable |
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Wistfullness |
characterized by melancholy; longing; yearning. |
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Innocuous |
Harmless |
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Recompense |
Reward, repayment |
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Perpetrate |
Carry out or commit a crime |
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Wont |
Habit ( to get up early) |
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Veritable |
True, real, honest |
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Sunder/asunder |
To split apart |
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Lissome |
Thin, supple, graceful |
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Canny |
Shrewd, good judgment |
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Vigilant/vigilance |
Alert, alertnesa |
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Prime |
Time of greatest sucess Main , of first importance |
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Loquacious |
Talkative |
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Buffoon |
Stupid person |
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Circumspect/circumspection |
Cautious, unwilling to take risk |
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Empirical |
Based on experience, observation rather than theory |
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Licentious |
Overindulgent in pleasures, unprincipled in sexual matters |
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Perpetuate |
To keep alive, to make eternal |
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Desolate |
Lonely, uninhabitated |
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Nefarious |
Immoral, unethical, wicked,criminal |
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Paragon |
Perfect example,model, ideal |
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Upshot |
Outcome, result |
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Dilettante |
Superficial, no real interest in arts/ any field |
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Connoisseur |
Expert judge |
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Tensile |
Elastic, stretched |
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Pliable |
Flexible Easily influenced |
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Canker |
Harmful, destructive |
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Requite |
Reciprocate, respond in an alike manner |
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Retrospect |
survey or review of a past course of events or period of time |
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Inured |
Used to, accustomed to (something unpleasant) |
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Viable |
Realistic, achievable, feasible |
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Exude |
Discharge Display strongly and openly |
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Emanate/emit/radiate/ooze |
Display strongly and openly |
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Depraved/depravity |
Morally corrupt, wicked, pervert |
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Glutinuous |
Sticky |
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Fragile |
Delicate, breakable |
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Embryonic |
Just beginner, primary stage of development |
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Apprentice |
Newly recruited, working on low wages to get experience |
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Multifaceted |
Versatile/multitalented |
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Conversant |
Familiar |
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Noxious |
Poisonous |
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Wreak |
To inflict revenge To cause damage |
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Condense |
To shorten to summarise |
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Muster |
To assemble to gather |
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Pastoral |
Village side countryside |
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Verbose/verbosity |
Wordy, lengthy |
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Articulate |
To pronounce clearly Form a joint |
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Curt |
Brief, impolite, rude |
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Chary |
Cautious, suspicious |
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Heyday |
Greatest time of success |
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Rift |
Split, break up |
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Acumen |
Shrewdness, sharpness, ability to make good judgemnts |
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Spartan |
Lacking luxuries |
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Recluse |
Prefering to be alone |
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Unsavory |
Offensive,objectinable, disagreeable |
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Ramification |
Outcomes Subdivisons, branches |
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Veteran |
Experienced |
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Ruinous |
Harmful |
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Tenable |
Reasonable, capable of being defended against criticism |
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Probity Opp. Inprobity |
Honesty, uprightness |
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Personification/personify |
the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form. Embodiment |
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Sincere |
free from pretence or deceit; proceeding from genuine feelings. Not dishonest or hypocritical |
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Voluble |
Talkative |
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Culmination |
Most intense point, final point |
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Inane |
Lack of intelligence, silly |
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Skeptical |
Doubting, distrustful |