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28 Cards in this Set
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Querulous |
Tending to complain, whining |
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Quantitative |
Relating to quantity, measurable |
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Feign |
Pretend something, invent something |
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Assuage |
Relieve something unpleasant |
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Futile |
In vain, having no useful result |
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Avarice |
Greed for wealth |
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Pragmatism |
Practical way of thinking about results |
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Genre |
A distinctive category of class, especially an artistic or literary one |
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Posit |
Put something forward |
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Polemic |
Passionate argument, often controversial |
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Modulated |
To alter something to make less strong |
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Expunge |
Get rid of something completely |
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Erudite |
Very knowledgeable through study |
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Engender |
Create or arise, have offspring |
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Prescience |
Advance knowledge of things |
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Qualifier |
A word or phrase that restricts or modified the meaning of another word or phrase |
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Temporal |
Relating to time, brief |
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Concession |
Reluctant yielding |
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Admonition |
A mild but earnest rebuke |
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Unscrupulous |
Not restrained by moral or ethical principles |
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Immutable |
Unchanging Or unchangeable |
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Enmity |
Hostility, extreme hatred |
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Supposition |
Hypothesis, a suggestion that might be true |
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Supposition |
Hypothesis, a suggestion that might be true |
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Feckless |
Ineffective, unlikely to be successful |
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Supposition |
Hypothesis, a suggestion that might be true |
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Feckless |
Ineffective, unlikely to be successful |
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Egregious |
Flagrant, conspicuously bad or offensive |
