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51 Cards in this Set

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Austere

Practicing self denial

Accolade

Award or praise granted as special honour

Irrevocable

Incapable of being revoked or retracted

Arbitrary

Based on random groundless decision

Repudiate

Reject as untrue

Tempered

Moderated in effect

Reverent

Showing respect

Audacity

Aggressive boldness in social situations

Subversive

In opposition to established institution

Munificient

Generous

Magoosh

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Brazen

Bold and without shame

Hegemony

Dominance over certain area

Pedestrian

Lacking imagination

Gauche

Lacking social polish, awkward

Pernicious

Exceedingly harmful in subtle way

Inscrutable

Impossible to understand or read, unfathomable

Scrupulous

Characterized by extreme care

Vacillate

Indecisive, fluctuate.

Prodigious

Extreme huge, enormous

Obsequious

Servile, sycophant, excessive flattering

Sporadic

Occurring at irregular intervals

Haphazard

Marked by extreme carelessness, unsystematic

Garrulous

Full of trivial conversations

Myriad

Large definite number

Propitious

Favorable, auspicious

Dilettante

Layman, amateur, non professional

Tractable

Easily managed

Antithetical

Contrast in character

Poignant

Emotionally touching

Intrepid

Fearless

Foment

Try to stir up public opinion, instigate

Insolent

Rude and arrogant

Prolific

Intellectually productive

Lionize

Assign great social importance to

Taciturn

Reserved and uncommunicative

Circumscribe

Restrict or confine

Trite

Repeated stuff

Resurgent

Rising again to new life

Ostracize

Exclude from a community or group

Constituent

being a part of a whole, being a voting member of an organization and having the power to appoint or elect.

Sanction

Approve, give authority or permission to, penalty for forbidden action

Winsome

Charming in a Child like or naive nature

Ravenous

Voracious, extremely hungry

Arcane

Understood by few, mysterious.

Inveterate

Habitual

Rescind

Cancel officially

Admonish

Scold, reprimand

Inimical

Tending to obstruct or harm, hostile. Unfriendly

Sychophant

A person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage

Percipitous

Done with great haste.