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29 Cards in this Set
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Allege
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Verb
To assert without or before proof |
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Ambidextrous
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Adj
Able to use both hands with equal facility. |
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Glib
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Adj
Marked by ease and fluency of speech or writing that often suggests or stems from insincerity, |
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Harp
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Verb
To talk or write about to an excessive and tedious degree |
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Incessant
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Adj
Continuing without interuption. |
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Matriatch
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Noun
A woman who rules a family, clan, or a tribe. |
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Nepotism
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Noun
Favortism shown or patronage granted to relatives, as in buisness. |
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Ornithology
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Noun
The branch of zoology and the study of birds. |
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Resuscitate
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Verb
To restore consciousness, vigor, or to life |
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Sequester
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Verb
To cause to withdraw into seclusion. |
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Substantiate
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Verb
To support with proof or evidence. |
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Tureen
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Noun
A broad, deep, usually covered dish used for serving foods. |
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Vivacious
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Adj
Full of animation and spirit lively |
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Zeal
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Noun
Ethusiastic devotion to a cause an ideal or a goal, and tireless diligense in its furthernace |
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Bask
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Verb
To expose oneself to pleasent warmth |
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Behoove
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Verb
To be necessary or proper for. |
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Canter
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Noun
A smooth gait esp. of a horse thats slower than a gallop but faster than the trot. |
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Debacle
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Noun
A sudden, desatrous collaspe, downfall, or defeat. |
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Eccentric
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Noun
One that deviates markedly from an established norm esp. a person of odd behavior. |
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Effervesce
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Verb
To emit small bubbles of gas as a carbonated liquid |
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Flotsam
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Noun
Wreckage or cargo that remaisn afloat after a ship has sunk. |
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Homogeneous
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Adj
Of the same simular kind of nature |
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Invincible
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Adj
Icapable of being overcome or defeated |
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Largess
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Noun
Generosity of spirit |
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Irrationanal
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Adj
Marked by a lack of accord with reason of sound judgement |
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Maim
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Verb
To disable or disfigure usually by depriving |
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Mogul
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Noun
A very rich or powerful person |
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Murky
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Adj
Partically or totally dark |
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Oaf
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Noun
A person regardless as stupid, clusmy |
