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60 Cards in this Set
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Askance |
With suspicion, distrust, or disapproval |
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Attenuate |
To make thin or slender; to weaken or lessen in force, intensity, or value |
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Benign |
Gentle, kind; forgiving, understanding; having a favorable or beneficial effect; not malignant
Salubrious |
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Cavil |
To find fault in a petty way, carp
A trivial objection or criticism |
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Charlatan |
One who feigns knowledge or ability; a pretender, imposter, or quack
Mountebank |
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Decimate |
To kill or destroy a large part of |
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Foible |
A weak point, failing, minor flaw |
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Forgo |
To do without, abstain from, give up |
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Fraught |
Full or loaded with; accompanied by |
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Inure |
To toughen, harden; to render used to something by long subjection or exposure |
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Luminous |
Emitting or reflecting light, glowing; illuminating
Refulgent, lustrous |
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Obsequious |
Marked by slavish attentiveness; excessively submissive, often for purely self-interested reasons
Sycophantic, mealymouthed |
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Obtuse |
Blunt, not coming to a point; slow or dull in understanding; measuring between 90 and 180 degrees; not causing a sharp impression |
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Oscillate |
To swing back and forth with a steady rhythm; to fluctuate or waver |
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Penitent |
Regretful for one's sins or mistakes
One who is sorry for wrongdoing |
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Peremptory |
Having the nature of a command that leaves no opportunity for debate, denial, or refusal; offensively self-assured, dictatorial; determined, resolute |
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Rebuff |
To snub; to repel, drive away
A curt rejection, a check |
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Reconnoiter |
To engage in reconnaissance; to make a preliminary inspection |
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Shambles |
A slaughterhouse; a place of mass bloodshed; a state of complete disorder and confusion, mess |
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Sporadic |
Occurring at irregular intervals, having to set plan or order
Spasmodic, intermittent |
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Abrogate |
To repeal, cancel, declare null and void |
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Ambient |
Completely surrounding, encompassing |
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Asperity |
Roughness, severity; bitterness or tartness |
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Burnish |
To make smooth or glossy by rubbing, polish
Gloss, brightness, luster |
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Cabal |
Small group working in secret |
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Delectable |
Delightful; highly enjoyable; deliciously flavored, savory
An appealing or appetizing dish |
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Deprecate |
To express mild disapproval; to belittle
Deplore |
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Detritus |
Loose bits and pieces of material resulting from disintegration or wearing away; fragments that result from any destruction |
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Ebullient |
Overflowing with enthusiasm and excitement; boiling, bubbling
A: blasé |
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Eclectic |
Drawn from different sources
One whose beliefs are drawn from various sources
A: monolithic |
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Flaccid |
Limp, not firm; lacking vigor or effectiveness |
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Impecunious |
Having little or no money |
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Inexorable |
Inflexible, beyond influence; relentless, unyielding
Ineluctable, obdurate |
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Moribund |
Dying, on the way out
Obsolescent |
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Necromancer |
One who claims to reveal or influence the future through magic, especially communication with the dead; in general, a magician or wizard |
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Onerous |
Burdensome; involving hardship or difficulty |
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Rife |
Common, prevalent, widespread, happening often; full, abounding; plentiful, abundant,replete |
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Rudiments |
The parts of any subject or disciple that are learned first; the earliest stages of anything |
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Sequester |
To set apart, separate for a special purpose; to take possession of and hold in custody |
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Winnow |
To get ride of something unwanted, delete; to sift through what is desirable; to remove the chaff from the wheat by blowing air on to; to blow on, fan |
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Aesthetic |
Pertaining to beauty; sensitive or responsive to beauty |
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Defunct |
No longer in existence or functioning, dead |
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Discomfit |
To frustrate, thwart, or defeat; to confuse, perplex, or embarrass
Nonplus |
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Espouse |
To take up and support; to become attached to, adopt; to marry
A: repudiate |
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Fetish |
An object believed to have magical powers; an object of unreasoning devotion or reverence |
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Gregarious |
Living together in a herd or group; sociable, seeking the company of others |
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Hapless |
Marked by a persistent absence of good luck |
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Impeccable |
Faultless, beyond criticism or blame |
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Importune |
To trouble with demands; to beg for insistently
Implore, dun , tax |
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Interpolate |
To insert between other parts or things; to present as an addition or correction |
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Irreparable |
Incapable of being repaired or rectified
Irremediable |
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Laconic |
Concise, using few words
Succinct, pithy, compact A: garrulous, prolix, loquacious |
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Languish |
To become weak, feeble, or dull; to droop; to be depressed or dispirited; to suffer neglect
Flag, fade, pine |
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Mendacious |
Given to lying or deception; untrue
A: veracious |
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Nadir |
The lowest point
A: zenith, pinnacle |
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Omnipresent |
Present in all places at all times
Ubiquitous |
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Perfunctory |
Done in a superficial or halfhearted manner, without interest or enthusiasm
Slapdash a: assiduous |
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Plaintive |
Expressive of sorrow or woe, melancholy
Lugubrious A: blithe |
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Requite |
To make suitable repayment, as for kindness, service, or favor; to make retaliation, as for injury or wrong; to reciprocate |
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Tantamount |
Equivalent, having the same meaning, value, or effect |
