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20 Cards in this Set
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Aggregate |
A whole made by combining different elements or parts |
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Ardor |
Enthusiastic passionate |
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Ascetic |
Strictly self-disciplined avoiding pleasure or luxuries |
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Bemuse |
Confuse or bewildered |
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Burlesque |
Performance or writting making fun of something through exaggeration variety show - bawdy humor and striptease |
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Convalesce |
Gradually recover ine's health after an illness |
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Didactic |
To teach or give moral guidance |
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Garish |
Unpleasantly bright and showy |
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Hitherto |
Until the point in time in the discussion |
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Ideology |
Set of beliefs held by a social group |
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Insidious |
Proceeding or spreading gradually without notice but causing serious harm |
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Insinuate |
Suggesting at something bad in an indirect unpleasant way |
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Iridescent |
Showing bright colors that seem to change form different angles |
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Limpid |
Liquid/eye color: clear Writting/music: clear or melodious |
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Nebulous |
Hazy in the form of a cloud not clearly defined |
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Opalescence |
Something showing many small points of shifting color |
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Parse |
Divide a sentence into parts and describe the grammar of each word or part |
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Perfidy |
The state of being deceitful and untrustworthy |
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Torpid |
Mentally or physically inactive lacking energy |
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Uncanny |
Strange so accurare or intense as to be unsettling |
