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20 Cards in this Set
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Abjectly |
low in condition or status; contemptible |
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Burgeoned |
to put forth, to grow quickly |
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Decanting |
to pour gently without disturbing the lower liquid layers |
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Caste |
a social class separated from others by distinctions |
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Sententiously |
excessive moralizing, the use of pithy statements or aphorisms |
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Posthumous |
occurring or continuing after one's death |
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Viviparous |
giving birth to living offspring that develop within the mother's body |
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Hypnopedia |
the act of learning during sleep by listening to recordings; also called sleep-learning |
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Indefatigably |
incapable of being fatigued; tireless, persevering |
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Inculcate |
to implant by repeated statement or admonition; teach persistently and earnestly |
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Maudlin |
effusively or tearfully sentimental |
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Surreptitious |
acquired in secret or by improper means; clandestine |
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Furtive |
expressive of hidden motives or purposes; shiftly |
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Imperiously |
arrogantly domineering or overbearing; haughtily |
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Stupor |
greatly dulled or impaired sensibility; apathy |
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Ruminating |
to turn a matter over and over in the mind; to meditate |
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Incandescence |
the emission of visible light by a body, caused by its high temperature, glowing |
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Derision |
contemptuous or jeering laughter; ridicule |
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Asceticism |
the practice of extreme self-denial and austerity |
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Plaintive |
expressing sorrow or melancholy; mournful |
