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100 Cards in this Set
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Abdicate/ Abrogate |
Give up the throne/ cancel or abolish |
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Adverse/ Averse |
Unfavourable/ strong dislike |
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Allude/ Elude |
Suggest/ escape |
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Appraise/ Apprise |
To assess the quality of/ to inform |
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Assure/Ensure/Insure |
To guarantee/to make sure/to protect against loss or damage |
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Auger/Augur |
Tool/ to predict |
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Bail/ Bale |
Rescue from difficulty/ a bundle |
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Baited/ Bated |
Taunt or tease, food in trap/ in great suspense (with bated breath) |
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Ball/ Bawl |
Plaything/ to cry loudly |
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Biannual/ Biennial |
Twice a year/ every two years |
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Blunt/ Brunt |
Lacking sharp edge/ main force, chief impact |
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Bore/ Boar/ Boor |
Boring or to drill/ male pig/ vulgar person |
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Braise/Braze |
To cook in liquid/ to solder with an alloy of copper and zinc |
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Broach/ Brooch |
To touch upon or start a topic/ a decorative pin |
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Cache/ Cachet |
Hidden storage/ prestige |
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Careen/ Career |
(Of a ship) tilt to one side/ relating to future, job, etc |
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Censure/ Censor |
Criticize strongly/ ban parts of book, film, an official, etc |
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Click/ Clique |
To make a sound by pushing a button/ a small exclusive group of friends |
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Complacent/ Complaisant |
Self satisfied/ willing to please |
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Creak/ Creek |
Squeak or groan/ waterway or stream |
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Curb/ Kurb |
To control/ edge of a footpath or sidewalk |
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Defuse/Diffuse |
Make a situation less tense/ spread |
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Device/Devise |
A mechanism/ to invent or plot |
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Discreet/ Discrete |
Respectful, polite/ seperate |
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Dredge/ Drudge |
Scoop up debris from river bed/ to do hard work |
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Dribble/ Drivel |
(Dribbling of basketball), a thin stream of water, to drool/ nonsense |
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Elicit/Illicit |
To draw out a response/ forbidden by law |
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Eminent/Immanent/Imminent |
Noteworthy or obvious/Inherent/ about to happen |
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Endemic/ Epidemic |
(A disease)Regularly found in a particular group or parts/ widespread occurrence of a disease |
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Elusive/ Illusive |
Difficult to describe/ imaginary, deceptive |
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Enormous/ Enormity |
Largeness of size or amount/ extreme wickedness |
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Especially/ specially |
Particularly/ preferential |
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Exigent/ Exiguous |
Demanding immediate attention/ scanty, small |
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Extant/Extinct |
Still existing/ no longer existing |
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Extract/Extricate |
Take out/ free with difficulty, pull out |
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Extradition/ Expatriate |
Delivering of criminals from one country to another/ some without a citizenship |
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Fain/Feign |
Gladly/ to pretend |
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Faint/Feint |
Suddenly loose consciousness/ a distracting manoeuvre |
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Faun/Fawn |
A rural God or deity/ a young deer or flatter |
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Forbear/Forebear |
Refrain from/ancestor, forerunner |
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Flaunt/Flout |
Show off/ show contempt |
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Fortunate/Fortuitous |
Lucky/accidental, by chance |
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Gaffe/Gaff |
Embarrassing mistake/a large hook |
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Gild/Guild |
Covering with gold/ group of people doing similar thing |
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Geezer/Geyser |
Old man/hot spring or water heater |
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Grisly/Grizzly |
Horrible/a type of bear |
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Hail/Hale |
Hailstones/ in good health |
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Hoard/Horde |
A store/a tribe or a group |
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Impudent/Imprudent |
Rude, disrespectful/unwise |
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Indigenous/Ingenuous/Ingenious/Indigent |
Native/innocent/clever/poor |
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Loathe/Loath |
V hate/ adj. Unwilling |
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Liable/Libel |
Responsible by law/ the crime of publishing a false statement |
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Mannequin/ Manikin |
Dressmaker's Model/ a dwarf |
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Material/ Materiel |
Material/ supplies, weapons of a military force |
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Mendacity/Mendicity |
Lying/begging |
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Might/Mite |
Strength/Fragment |
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Momentary/momentous |
For a moment/important |
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Obdurate/Objurgate |
Stubborn/to scold |
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Official/Officious |
Related to an office/meddlesome |
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Ordinance/Ordnance |
Rule of order/arms, cannon |
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Ostensible/Ostentatious |
Claiming to be different from the real/ showy |
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Paean/Paeon |
A song of praise/ a metrical foot |
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Penury/Penurious |
Poverty/miserly |
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Persecute/Prosecute |
Harass/Bring a criminal action against |
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Perspicacious/Perspicuous |
Acutely insightful and wise/ clearly understandable |
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Plaintiff/Plaintive |
Brings a case in court/ sad, mournful |
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Politic/Political |
Prudent, shrewd; smoothly agreeable and courteous |
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Potable/ Portable |
Fit to drink/ not fixed; easily transported |
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Premier/Premiere |
Chief/ Opening show |
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Prescribe/Proscribe |
To lay down authoritatively/ to prohibit |
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Proceed/Proceeds |
Continue, go/ collections |
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Prophecy/Prophesy |
N_ prediction/ V_ to predict |
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Rational/Rationale |
Sane,logical/ logical basis |
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Recollect/Remember |
Recall knowledge from memory/ keep in mind for attention or consideration |
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Recommend/ Refer |
Suggest some person or action for a job or purpose/ redirect to a person or place |
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Retrenchment/Retribution |
Reduction in expenditure or number of employees/ punishment |
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Review/Revue |
A survey or a report/a musical show |
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Rhyme/Rime |
Matching of sounds in verse/frost |
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Rich/Riches |
Wealthy/ resources, belongings |
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Right/Rite |
Correct/ceremony |
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Rigorous/vigorous |
Thorough, severe, unsparing/ energetic, strong, active |
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Route/Rout |
Path/ defeat, debacle |
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Reign/Rein |
To rule/strap used for controlling an animal |
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Raise/Raze |
To lift or to build up/ to pull down |
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Remember/Remind |
Keep in memory, to be able to bring back info into your mind/ to make someone aware of something |
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Retch/Wretch |
To gag or try to vomit/ grovelling person, a creep |
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Sanatory/Sanitary |
Curative/ clean, hygienic |
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Satire/Satyr |
Make fun of, sarcasm/ a woodland deity or God |
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Shear/Sheer |
Trim, shave/ complete, absolute |
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Team/Teem |
Group/Swarm |
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Specious/spacious |
Untrue/roomy |
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Turbid/Turgid |
Muddy, clouded/ inflated, pompous |
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Vacation/Vocation |
Holidays/profession |
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Vain/Vein |
Useless/ blood vessel |
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Venal/Venial |
Evil, corrupt/ excusable, pardonable |
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Veracity/Voracity |
Truthfulness/ extreme desire to eat |
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Wail/Wain |
To cry bitterly/ a large open wagon for hay |
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Wave/waive |
To signal , to move/ to forego |
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Wreak/Reek/Wreck |
Inflict, bring about/ strong bad odour/destruction |
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Yoke/Yolk |
Piece of wood places on the neck of oxen/ yellow of an egg |
