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63 Cards in this Set
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Purgative |
A cleanser or cleansing |
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Hortative |
encouraging or an encouragement |
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Exhortation |
an outward expression of encouragement |
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Blandishment |
flattery |
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Spurn |
reject |
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Diffident |
untrusting |
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Squalid |
filthy, dirty |
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Squalor |
the state of filth or dirt |
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Opulence |
extreme wealth |
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Auxiliary |
helpful or additional |
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Augment |
increase |
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Augmentation |
The act of increasing to an increase |
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Augmentative |
an agent which increases |
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Auction |
act of increasing a price |
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Caecilian |
blind |
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Cecum |
blind intestine (part where big and small intestine meet) |
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Inane |
pointless, empty, meaningless |
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inanity |
pointlessness, emptiness, meaninglessness |
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Sedation |
an act of extreme rebellion |
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Gaudy |
overly rejoice full |
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Inimical |
hostile or futile |
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Castellan |
warden/owner of a castle |
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Transalpine Gaul |
(Part of Gaul) across the alps |
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Cisalpine Gaul |
(Part of Gaul) in or near the alps |
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lucent |
lighting, glowing, clear |
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Esperanto |
hope (name of the "hopeful" made up language people hoped would be universal) |
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Lapsus linguae |
slip of the tongue |
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Lapsus mentis |
slip of the mind/having fallen out of your mind |
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conspectus |
an overview |
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vinculation |
the act of binding or link |
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tectonic |
outer layer, crust of the earth |
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Architect |
ruler of the roof |
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Prestidigitation |
showing your fingers, doing tricks with your fingers |
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Contumelious |
prone to insulting |
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Contumacious |
prone to being rebellious, insubordinate |
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Ambivalent |
both things having the same value aka can't male up your mind |
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Ambiguous |
both things prone to being unclear |
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Ambidextrous |
both hands like right hands aka skillful |
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Sinister |
left (has come o mean sneaky/bad like left hand people) |
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Angst |
corner, feeling trapped or anxious |
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Ostensible |
holding in front of face, so obvious or shown obviously |
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ire |
anger |
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antebellum |
before war/pre-war |
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vivification |
the act of making alive (for example: animation, Frankenstein,robots and Pinocchio |
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alto-relievo |
bas-relief la one-sided sculpture with high and low definitions |
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incarcerate |
to imprison |
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Elapse |
to slip by (as of time) |
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Inclusion |
the act of including a group or structure that is recognizably distinct from the group or sculpture |
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Festinate |
to rush,hurry |
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ultimatum |
a final demand or statement of terms, the rejection of which will result in relations or a breakdown in relations |
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Penultimate |
the "almost last", the next to last |
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potentate |
a person in power, monarch or ruler |
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Magniloquent |
using high-flown or bombastic language, "speaking with great words" |
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Magnanimous |
having a great soul; generous; kind; forgiving |
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Carulus Magnus |
Karl der GraBe; Charlemagne (c. 747-814) |
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Preterite |
time gone past, past tense |
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Impale |
to pierce or transfix with a stake or other sharp instrument, esp. as a torture to the death |
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Furtive |
acting like a thief; stealthy |
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Torquate |
having a ring or band twisted around the neck; collared |
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Torque |
a twisting force; the tendency of a force to rotate an object on an axis |
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Stringent |
"drawing tight"; strict ; severe; constraining; urgent |
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Stringendo |
progressively quickening in tempo (as of music) |
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Jugular |
of or relating to the thought or neck
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