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25 Cards in this Set
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auspicious
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favorable and prosperous (promising, propitious)
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propitious
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favorable (auspicious)
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benign
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1. gracious, kind, and gentle
2. favorable (propitious) 3. pleasant and healthful 4. in medicine, not malignant |
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astute
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keen, clever, and discerning (shrewd, smart, judicious)
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compelling
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1. overpowering (forceful)
2. persuasive (undeniable, convincing) |
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tenacious
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1. a firm hold
2. stubborn (obstinate) 3. strong 4. sticky (cohesive) |
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legibility
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the state of being readable, decipherable, or understandable
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nebulous
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hazy, cloudy, vague (imprecise, ill-defined)
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epigrammatic
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expressed with a terse, ingenious, wittiness about the phrase or words
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amalgamate
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to mix (blend, combine, merge, join, fuse, mingle)
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onerous
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oppressive and arduous (burdensome, troublesome, tiring, heavy, grievous)
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sporadic
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1. irregular (intermittent, infrequent)
2. scattered about in time or place from the others |
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vacillate
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waver or think twice; to be indecisive (hesitate)
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venerate
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to revere or respect
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dilatory
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causing to slow down or delay (procrastinating)
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burnish
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polished by friction, to become bright and smooth (buff)
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calcify
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1. to become like stone, make rigid, or make solid
2. in medicine, to change to harden or become chalky with the deposit of calcium |
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ameliorate
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to make better (improve)
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adulterate
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to make impure
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aver
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to positively declare to be true
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gist
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the main point or idea (essence)
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grovel
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1. to humble yourself and make apologies in great fear
2. to physically prostrate before another |
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abject
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1. utterly wretched and hopeless (dismal)
2. contemptible, despicable (horrible) 3. forlorn (rejected) |
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hone
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1. to sharpen
2. to make better |
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incarcerat
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1. imprison (jail)
2. confine |
