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20 Cards in this Set
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Abortive |
(Adj.) Failing to accomplish an intended aim or purpose: only partially or imperfectly developed |
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Bruit |
(V.) To spread news, reports, or unsubstantiated rumors |
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Contumelious |
(Adj.) Insolent or rude in speech or behavior; insultingly abusive; humiliating |
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Dictum |
(N.) A short saying; an authoritative statement |
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Ensocnce |
(V.) To settle comfortably and firmly in position;to pit or hide in a safe place. |
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Iconoclastic |
(Adj.) Attacking or seeking to overthrow popular or traditional beliefs, ideas, or institutions |
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In medias res |
(Adv.) In or into the middle of a plot into the middle of things |
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Internecine |
(Adj.) Mutually destructive; characterized by great slaughter and bloodshed |
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Maladroit |
(Adj.) Lacking skill or dexterity; lacking tact, perception, or judgement |
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Maudlin |
(Adj.) Excessive or effusively sentimental |
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Modulate |
(V.) To change or vary the intensity or pitch; to temper of soften; to regulate, adjust |
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Portentous |
(Adj.) foreshadowing an event to come; causing wonder or awe; self-consciously weighty, pompous |
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Prescience |
(N.) Knowledge of events or actions before they happen; foresight |
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Quid pro quo |
(N.) Something in exchange or return for something else |
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Salubrious |
(Adj.) Conductive to health or well-being; wholesome |
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Saturnalian |
(Adj.) Charscterized by riotous or unrestrained revelry or licentiousness |
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Touchstone |
(N.) A means of testing worth or genuineness |
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Traumatic |
(Adj.) So shocking to the emotions as to cause lasting and substantial physiological damage |
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Vitiate |
(V.) To weaken, debase, or currupt; to impair the quality or value of. |
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Waggish |
(Adj.) Fond of making jokes; characteristic of a joker; playfully humorous or droll. |
