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40 Cards in this Set
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Acquisitive |
(adj) able to get and retain ideas or information ;concerned with acquiring wealth or property |
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Arrogate |
(v) To claim or take without right |
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Banal |
(adj) Hackneyed, trite, commonplace |
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Belabor |
(v) to work on excessively; to thrash soundly |
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Carping |
(adj) tending to find fault. Especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way; (n) petty, nagging criticism |
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Coherent |
(adj) holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible, meaning |
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Congeal |
(v) to change from liquid to solid, thicken; to make inflexible or rigid |
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Emulate |
(v) to imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model |
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Emcomium |
(n) A formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute |
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Eschew |
(v) to avoid, shun, keep away from |
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Germane |
(adj) Relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting |
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Insatiable |
(adj) So great or demanding as not to be satisfied |
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Intransigent |
(adj) Refusing to compromise, irreconcilable |
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Invidious |
(adj) Offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness and resentment |
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Largesse |
(n) generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributions |
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Reconnaissance |
(n) a survey made for military purposes; any kind of preliminary inspection or examination |
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Substantiate |
(v) To establish by evidence, prove; to give concrete or substantial form to |
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Taciturn |
(adj) habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little |
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Temporize |
(v) to stall or evasively in order to gain time, avoid a confrontation, or postpone a decision; to compromise |
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Tenable |
(adj) capable of being held or defended |
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Accost |
(v) to approach and speak to first;to confront in a challenging or aggressive way |
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Animadversion |
(n) acomment indicating strong criticism or disapproval |
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Avid |
(adj) Desirous of something to the point of greed;intensely eager |
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Brackish |
(adj) having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink |
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Celerity |
(n) swiftness, rapidity of motion or action |
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Devious |
(adj) straying or wandering from a straight or direct course; done or acting in a shifty or underhanded way |
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Gambit |
(n) an opening move that involves risk or sacrifice of a minor piece in order to gain a later advantage |
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Halcyon |
(n) a legendary bird;(adj) calm, peaceful |
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Histrionic |
(adj) pertaining to actors and their techniques, theatrical |
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Incendiary |
(adj) deliberately setting or causing fires; designed to start fires;tending to stirr up strife or rebellion. (n) one who deliberately sets fires, arsonist |
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Maelstrom |
(n) a whirlpool of great size and violence; a situation resembling a whirlpool in violence and destruction |
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Myopic |
(adj) nearsighted;lacking a broad, realistic view of a situation; lacking foresight or discernment |
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Overt |
(adj) open, not hidden, Express or revealed in a way that is easily recognized |
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Pejorative |
(adj) tending to make worse; expressing disapproval or disparage mentioned, derogatory, deprecated, belitting |
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Propriety |
(n) the state of being proper appropriateness (pl) standards of what is proper or socially acceptable |
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Sacrilege |
(n) improper or disrespectful treatment of Something held sacred |
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Summarily |
(adv) without delay or formality; briefly, concisely |
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Suppliant |
(adj) asking humbly and earnestly (n) one who makes a request humbly and earnestly, a petitioner, suitor |
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Talisman |
(n) an object that serves as a charm or is believed to confer magical powers, an amulet, fetish |
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Undulate |
(v) to move in waves or with a wavelike to have a wave like appearance or form |
