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163 Cards in this Set
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Congragulate(v)
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Express one's pleasure to another person at one person's success
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gracious(adj)
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Pleasent; courteous; kindly
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Grateful(adj)
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Feeling or expressing gratitude; thankful; obliged
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Gratify(v)
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Give or be a source of pleasure or satisfaction
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Gratis(adv)
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without charge or payment fee
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gratitude(n)
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thankfulness
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Gratuitous(adj)
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1. Given freely; gratis
2. Unwarranted, as a gratuitous remark |
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Gratuity(n)
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Present or money in return for a favor or service; tip
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Ingrate(n)
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ungrateful person
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Ingratiate(v)
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Establish oneself in the favor or good graces of another
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Immortal(adj)
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1. Not subject to death
2. Not subject to oblivion |
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Immortality(adj)
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1. Eternal life
2. Lasting time |
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Moribound(adj)
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dying; near death
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Mortal(n)
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Human being; person; individual
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Mortality(n)
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1.Death rate
2.Mortal nature |
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Mortician(n)
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Undertaker
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Mortification(n)
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Shame; humiliation; embarrassment
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Mortify(v)
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Embarrass;shame;humiliate
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Mortuary(n)
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funeral home
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Rigor mortis(n)
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Stifness of the body that sets in several hours after death
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Corporal
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Bodily, as corporal punishment
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Corporation(n)
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body authorized by law to carry on an activity with the rights and duties of a single person
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Corps(n)
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1. Organized body of persons
2. Branch of the military, as the Marine Corps |
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Corpse(n)
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dead body
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Corpulent(adj)
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bulky; obese; very fat
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Corpuscle
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1. Blood cell
2. Minute particle |
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Corpus Delecti(n)
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1. Facts proving that a crime has been committed
2. Body of the victim in a murder case |
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Espirit de corps(n)
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Spirit of a body or persons; group spirit
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Haebeas corpus(n)
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1. Order requiring a detained person to be brought before a court to investigate the legality of that person's detention
2. Right of a citizen to secure court protection against illegal imprisonment |
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Incoporate(v)
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Combine as to form one body
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Aqueduct(n)
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Artificial channel for conducting water over a distance
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Conducive(n)
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Tending to lead to; contributive; helpful
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Conduct(v)
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lead; guide; escort
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Deduction(n)
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1. Taking away; subtraction
2. Reasoning from the general to the particular |
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Duct(n)
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tube or channel for conducting liquid, air, etc
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Ductile(adj)
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1. Able to be drawn out or hammered thin
2. Easily led; docile |
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Induce(n)
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lead on; move by persuasion
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Induct(v)
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admit as a member; initiate
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Induction(n)
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1. Ceremony by which one is made a member; initiation
2. Reasoning from the particular to the general |
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Seduction(n)
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Enticement; leading astray into wrongdoing
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Consecutive(adj)
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Following in regular; successive
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Consequence(n)
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1. That which follows logically; result
2. Importance, as a person of consequence |
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Execute(v)
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1. Follow through to completion; result
2. Put to death |
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Inconsequential(adj)
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Of no consequence; trivial; unimportant
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Prosecute(v)
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1. Follow to the end or until finished
2. Conduct legal proceedings against; sue |
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Sequel(n)
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Something that follows; continuation; consequence; outcome
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Sequence(n)
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The foillowing of one thing after another; succession; orderly strewn
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Sequential(adj)
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Arranged in a sequence; serial
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Concur(v)
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1. Agree; be of the same opinion
2. Happen together; coincide |
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Concurrent(adj)
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running together; occuring at the same time
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Current(adj)
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1. Running or flowing
2. Now in progress; prevailing |
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Curriculum(n)
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Course of study in a school or college
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Cursive(adj)
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Running or flowing(said of handwriting in which the letters are joined)
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Cursory(adj)
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Running over hastily: superficially done, as a cursory glance
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Discursive(adj)
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Wandering from one topic to another; rambling; digressive
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Excursion(n)
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Going out or forth; expedition
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Incur(v)
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1. Meet with something undesirable
2. Bring up oneself |
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Incursion(n)
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1. A rushing into
2. Hostile invasion; raid |
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Precursor(n)
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Forerunner; predecessor
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Recur(v)
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happen again
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Agressive(adj)
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Disposed to attack; militant; assertive; pushing
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Egress(n)
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Means of going out; exit
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Gradation(n)
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1. A change by steps or stages
2. Acto of grading |
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Grade(n)
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step;stage;degree;rating
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Gradient(n)
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1. Rate at which a road, railroad track, temperatire, voltage, etc rises
2. Slope |
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Gradual(adj)
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step-by-step;bit by bit
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Graduate(v)
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Complete all the steps of a course and receive a diploma or degree
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Graduated(adj)
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Arranged in regular steps, stages, or degrees
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Progressive(adj)
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Going forward to something considered better
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Regressive
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Disposed to move backward;retrogressive
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Retrograde(adj)
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1. Going backward
2. Becoming worse |
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Retrogressive(n)
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Act of going from a better to worse state
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Transgress(v)
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Step beyond the limits or barriers; go beyond; break the law
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Biped(n)
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Two-footed animal
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Centipede(n)
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Wormlike animal with one pair of legs on most of its segments
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Expedite(v)
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1. Facilitate
2. Accelerate or speed up |
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Impede(v)
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Hinder; obstruct; block
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Impediment(n)
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1. Hinderence; obstacle
2. Defect |
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Millipede(n)
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Wormlike animal with two pairs of legs on most of its segments
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Pedal(n)
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Lever acted on by foot
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Pedestal(n)
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1. Support or foot of a column or statue
2. Foundation |
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Contact(n)
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Touching or meeting; association; connection
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Contiguous(adj)
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Touching, in physical contact; adjoining
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Contingent(adj)
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1. Dependent on something else
2. Accidental |
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Intact(adj)
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Untouched or uninjured; kept or left whole
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Intangible(adj)
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1. Not capable of being perceived by the sense of touch
2. Hard to grasp or define exactly |
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Tact(n)
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Sensitive to mental perception of what is appropriate on a given occasion
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Tactful(adj)
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Having or showing tact
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Tactile(adj)
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1. Pertaining to the sense of touch
2. Tangible |
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Tangent(adj)
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Touching
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Tangent(n)
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Line or surace meeting curved line or surface at one point, but not intersecting it
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Tangential(adj)
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Merely touching; slightly touching; digressive
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Apprehend(v)
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1. Seize or take into custody
2. Understand |
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Apprehensive(adj)
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1. Quick to understand or grasp
2. Fearful of what may come; anxious |
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Comprehensible(adj)
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Able to be grasped mentally; understandable
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Comprehensive(adj)
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Including very much; extensive
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Prehensile(adj)
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Adapted for seizing as a prehensile claw
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Reprehend(v)
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Find fault with; rebuke; reprimand; censure
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Reprehensible(adj)
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Deserving of censure; culpable
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Abject(adj)
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Sunk or cast down to a low condition; downtrodden; deserving contempt
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Conjecture(n)
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a guess; supposition; inference
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Dejected(adj)
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Downcast; discouraged; depressed
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Eject(v)
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Throw out or expel;evict
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Inject(v)
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Force or introduce a liquid, a remark. etc
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Interject(v)
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Throw in between; insert; interpose
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Projectile(n)
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1. Object designed to be shot forward
2. Anything thrown forward |
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Reject(v)
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Refuse to take; discrard
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Subject(v)
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Force someone to udnergo something unpleasant or inconvenient; expose; make liable to
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Aversion(n)
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Feeling of repugnance toward something with a desire to turn away from it; strong dislike; antipathy
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Avert(v)
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1. Turn away
2. Prevent; avoid |
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Controversy(n)
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Dispute; debate; quarrel
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Diversion(n)
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Entertainment; amusement
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Divert(v)
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1. Turn aside
2. Amuse; entertain |
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Extrovert(n)
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One more interesected in matters outside the shelf than in one;s own thoughts or feelings
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Inadvertently(adv)
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Without turning one's mind to the matter at hand; carelessly; unintentionally
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Incontrovertible(adj)
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Not able to be disputed; not open to question
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Introvert(v)
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Turn inward
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Invert(v)
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Turn upside down
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Obverse(n)
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Side turned toward the observer; therefore the front of a coin, medal
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Perverse(adj)
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Turned away from what is right or good; corrupt; wrongheaded
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Pervert(v)
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Turn away from right or truth; give a wrong meaning to
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Revert(v)
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Return; go back
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Versatile(adj)
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Able to turn with ease from one thing to another
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Verse(n)
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Line of poetry after a fized number of syllables, the poet has to begin a new line
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Vertigo(n)
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Condition in which one feels that one's surroundings are turning about dizziness
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Commitment(n)
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1. Cosignment to prison or a mental institution
2. Pledge |
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Demise(n)
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death
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Emissary(n)
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Person sent out on a mission
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Emit(v)
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Send out; Give off
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Intermittent(adj)
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Coming and going at intervals
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Missile(n)
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Weapon capable of being propelled to a hit a distant object
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Missive(n)
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Written message sent; a letter
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remiss(adj)
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Negligent; careless; lax
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Remission(n)
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Period of lessening or dissappearance of the symptoms of a disease
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Remit(v)
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1. Send money due
2. Forgive |
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Circumlocution(n)
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Roundabout way of speaking
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Colloquy(n)
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A talking together; conference or conversation
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Elocution(n)
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Art of speaking out or reading effectively in public
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Eloquent(adj)
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Speaking with force and fluency; movingly expressive
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Grandiloquent(adj)
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Using lofty or pompous words; bombastic
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Interlocutor(n)
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1. Questioner
2. One who participates in a conversation |
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Obloquy(n)
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1. A speaking against; censure
2. Public reproach |
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Auriferous(adj)
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Bearing or yeilding gold
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Coniferous(adj)
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Bearing cones
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Odoriferous(adj)
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Yielding an odor, usually fragrant
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Pestiferous(adj)
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1. Infected with or bearing disease; pestilent
2. Evilq |
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Proliferous(adj)
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Producing new growth rapidly and extensively
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Somniferous(adj)
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Bearing or inducing sleep
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Vociferous(adj)
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Producing a loud outcry; clamorous; noisy
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Circumlocution(n)
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Roundabout way of speaking
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Colloquy(n)
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A talking together; conference or conversation
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Elocution(n)
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Art of speaking out or reading effectively in public
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Eloquent(adj)
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Speaking with force and fluency; movingly expressive
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Grandiloquent(adj)
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Using lofty or pompous words; bombastic
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Interlocutor(n)
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1. Questioner
2. One who participates in a conversation |
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Obloquy(n)
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1. A speaking against; censure
2. Public reproach |
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Auriferous(adj)
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Bearing or yeilding gold
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Coniferous(adj)
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Bearing cones
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Odoriferous(adj)
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Yielding an odor, usually fragrant
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Pestiferous(adj)
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1. Infected with or bearing disease; pestilent
2. Evilq |
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Proliferous(adj)
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Producing new growth rapidly and extensively
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Somniferous(adj)
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Bearing or inducing sleep
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Vociferous(adj)
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Producing a loud outcry; clamorous; noisy
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