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25 Cards in this Set
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Mellifluous |
Smooth and sweet sounding |
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Quixotic |
Widely ideal, impractical |
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Limpid |
Having clarity in terms of expression |
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Bilious |
Irritable, always angry |
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Venial |
Easily excused, pardonable, forgivable |
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Peremptory |
Bossy and demanding |
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Palimpsest |
something reused or altered but still bearing visible traces of its earlier form. |
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Juggernaut |
Force that cannot be stopped |
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Hedge |
Limit or qualify. Avoid making direct statement |
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Apotheosis |
the highest point in the development of something; a culmination or climax. |
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Pyrrhic |
Describing a victory that comes at such a cost that its not worth |
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Blinkered |
Having limited outlook or understanding, narrow minded |
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Sententious |
Sanctimonious, making a show of being morally superior to other people, be moral in usual pompous state |
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Malapropism |
Confusion of word with other which sounds similar |
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Jejune |
Dull, lacking flavor, childish, immature |
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Curmudgeon |
A bad tempered person |
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Mettlesome |
Full of courage and lively |
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Disabuse |
Persuade someone that his her belief is not valid |
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Invective |
Abusive language |
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Execrate |
To curse |
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Quisling |
A traitor |
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Schadenfreude |
Joy from watching pain of others |
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Cupidity |
greed for money |
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Phantasmagorical |
Unreal, illusive |
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Propitiate |
Appease or placate |
