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20 Cards in this Set
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Brevity |
shortness; conciseness |
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Bucolic |
rustic; rural; characteristic or country life |
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Hyperbolic |
exaggerating |
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Antithesis |
the opposite of something else |
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Capacious |
roomy; able to hold much |
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Carnage |
killing of many people |
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Carnivorous |
flesh eating |
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Aesthetic |
pertaining to the value of art for its own sake or for form |
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Juxtaposition |
placing two items next to each other to compare them |
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Choleric |
easily angered; often angry |
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Churlish |
ill-mannered; rude |
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Clamor |
loud, prolonged outcry or noise |
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Implosion |
sudden collapse |
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Incessant |
unceasing; continuously repeated |
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Incipient |
beginning; commencing |
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Inclusive |
including what is mentioned |
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Incorrigible |
incapable of being reformed or corrected; hopeless |
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Cogitate |
think over; reflect on |
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Commiserate |
sympathize; express pity for |
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Compulsion |
impulse, usually irresistable |
