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20 Cards in this Set
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Adjourn
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(v.) to stop proceedings temporarily;move to another place. After a long time arguing in court, the judge decided to adjourn the meeting until the next morning.
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Alien
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(n.) a citizen of another country; (adj.) foreign, strange. While watching the news the woman came across an alien topic which she new nothing about.
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Comely
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(adj) having a pleasing appearance. An important point for going to a job interview is to make sure you are comely.
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Compensate
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(v) to make up for; to repay for services. The soldiers were compensated due to their courageous actions fighting for out country.
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Dissolute
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(adj.) loose in one's morals or behavior. The teenagers careless attitude led her to make dissolute desicions for herself.
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Erratic
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(adj.) not regular or consistent; different from what is ordinarily expected; undependable. As she struggled to keep her grades up her erratic behavior kept getting her in trouble.
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Expulsion
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(n.) the process of driving or forcing out. After the girl commited a serious offense at the school, the principal's choices were expulsion or suspension.
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Feint
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(n.) a deliberately deceptive movement; a pretense; (v.) to make a deceptive movement; to make a pretense of. After she was in the closet for fifteen minutes she realized that it was a feint.
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Fodder
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(n.) food for horses or cattle; raw material for a designated purpose. At the stables there is always a large supply of fodder for the horses.
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Fortify
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(v.) to strengthen, build up. In order to hold the pillar up they had to fortify the screws.
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Illegible
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(Adj) difficult or impossible to read. Due to lack of education children's handrwiting may become illegible.
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Jeer
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(v.) to make fun of rudely or unkindly; (n.) a rude remark of derision. While the opposing player was shooting, the home team fans started to jeer loudly.
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Lucrative
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(Adj.) bringing in money; profitable. Thanks to her lucrative buisness, the entrepreneur can now pay off all her debts.
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Medicore
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(adj.) average, ordinary, undistinguished. The so called star player's mediocre actions caused her to sit on the bench in the first half of the game.
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Proliferate
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(v.) to reproduce, increase, spread rapidly. As ants started to proliferate in their home, the family finally decided to call an exterminator.
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Subjugate
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(v.) to conquer by force, bring under complete control. After years of struggles and hard work the girl finally subjugated the art of soccer.
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Sully
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(v.) to soil, stain, tarnish, defile, besmirch. While eating dinner the accidently sullied her paper with spaghetti sauce.
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Tantalize
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(v.) to tease, torment by teasing. Her child tantalized her with the warm chocolate cake that she was allergic to because of the peanuts in it.
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Terse
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(Adj.) brief and to the point. After hours of telling her story the girl realized that it could have been a terse story if she had left out all the unnessecary details.
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Unflinching
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(adj.) firm, showing no signs of fear, not drawing back. Her unflincing desicion of going into the tackle payed off because she won the ball.
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