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45 Cards in this Set
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Abject |
utterly hopeless, miserable, humiliating, or wretched |
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Incimial |
hostile; unfriendly |
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Pretenatural |
inexplicable by ordinary means |
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Extemporise |
to get along in a makeshift manner; improvise |
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Alacrity |
brisk and cheerful readiness |
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Exingency |
an urgent need or demand |
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Solicitude |
care or concern for someone or something |
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Perambulate |
walk or travel through or around a place or area, especially for pleasure and in a leisurely way |
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Boisterous |
rough and noisy; noisily jolly or rowdy |
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Betrothed |
the person someone has promised to marry |
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Ostensibly |
to all outward appearances; seemingly |
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Deprecatory |
expressing disapproval |
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Escarpment |
a long, steep slope, especially one at the edge of a plateau or separating areas of land at different heights |
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Taciturnity |
the state or quality of being reserved or reticent in conversation |
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Niggardly |
reluctant to give or spend; stingy; miserly |
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Engender |
to produce, cause, or give rise to |
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Commiseration |
sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others; compassion |
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Pernicious |
causing insidious harm or ruin; runious; injurious; hurtful |
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Desultory |
marked by lack of a definite plan, regularity, or purpose |
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Rotund |
large, round, and plump |
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Cacophonus |
harsh-sounding |
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Cacophonus |
harsh-sounding |
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Demure |
reserved, modest |
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Doggerel |
comic verse composed in irregular rythm |
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Dalliance |
a casual romantic relationship |
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Titular |
having the title but none of the associated duties, powers |
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Supererogation |
to do more than duty requires |
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Zeugma |
a figure of speech in which one verb or preposition joins two objects within the same phrase, often with different meanings |
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Zeugma |
a figure of speech in which one verb or preposition joins two objects within the same phrase, often with different meanings |
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Metonym |
substitutes the name of an entity with something else that is closely associated with it |
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Metonym |
substitutes the name of an entity with something else that is closely associated with it |
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Adamantine |
unyielding; rigidly firm |
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Gaunt |
excessively thin and angular |
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Henpecked |
browbeaten, bullied, or intimidated by one's wife, girlfriend, and the rest |
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Henpecked |
browbeaten, bullied, or intimidated by one's wife, girlfriend, and the rest |
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Fastidious |
excessively particular, critical, or demanding |
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Fastidious |
excessively particular, critical, or demanding |
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Enjambment |
the running-over of a sentence or phrase from one poetic line to the next, without terminal punctuation |
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Recreant |
a coward |
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Betide |
to happen; come to pass |
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Acrimony |
harsh or biting sharpness especially of words, manner, or feelings |
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Animosity |
a strong feeling of dislike or hatred |
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Officious |
volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed; meddlesome |
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Averse |
having an active feeling of repugnance or distaste |
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Synedoche |
the term for part of something is used to represent the whole |
