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15 Cards in this Set
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Affectation (affected, affecting, affectations) |
behavior, speech, or writing that is artificial and designed to impress. |
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Engender (engendered, engendering, engenders) |
to cause to exist or develop. |
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Credulity (credulous, credulously, credulousness)
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ability or willingness to believe |
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Heed (heeds, heeded, heeding) |
to pay attention to. |
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Buttress (buttresses, buttressing, buttressed) |
something that supports or strengthens. |
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Resign (resigned, resigning, resigns) |
to accept something as inevitable. |
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Plausible (plausibleness, plausibility, plausibly) |
reasonable, worthy of belief. |
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Laborious (laboriously, laboriously, laboriousness) |
requiring considerable effort and time; characterized by hard work. |
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Avail (availing, availed, avails) |
to be of use or advantage; to help or benefit. |
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Viable (viability, viably) |
capable of being done, or succeeding; possible. |
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Catalyst (catalyze, catalyzing, catalyzer, catalysis, catalyses) |
an agent that provokes or speeds significant change or action |
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Beget (begetting, begotten, begets, begetter) |
to cause to happen or exist |
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Clairvoyant (clairvoyantly) |
exceptionally insightful, able to foresee the future. |
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Hedonist (hedonistic, hedonistically) |
a person who pursues pleasure as a goal. |
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Spurious (spuriousness, spuriously) |
lacking authenticity. False. |
