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109 Cards in this Set
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Pragmatic |
practical |
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Placate |
to lessen another's anger; to pacify |
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Plethora |
excess; overabundance |
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Piety |
devoutness |
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Permeable |
penetrable |
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Profound |
deep; not superficial |
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Prosperity |
inclination; tendency |
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Recant |
to retract a statement or opinion |
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Satiate |
to satisfy |
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Sensual |
relating to the senses; gratifying the physical senses, especially sexual appetites |
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Skeptic |
one who doubts |
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Striated |
marked with thin, narrow grooves or channels |
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Substantiate |
to support with proof or evidence |
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Tangential |
peripheral; digressing |
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Tenuous |
weak; insubstantial |
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Tirade |
long, violent speech; verbal assault |
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Vacillate |
to waver; oscillate |
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Verbose |
wordy |
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Viable |
practicable; capable of developing |
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Viscous |
thick, syrupy, and sticky |
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Volatile |
tending to vary frequently; fickle |
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Zealot |
one who is fanatically devoted to a cause |
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Problematic |
posing a problem; doubtful; unsettled |
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Pristine |
untouched; uncorrupted |
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Efficacy |
efficiency; effectiveness |
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Embellish |
to adorn; decorate; enhance; make more attractive by adding details |
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Emulate |
to imitate; copy |
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Exacerbate |
to aggravate; make worse |
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Presumptuous |
rude; improperly bold; readiness to presume |
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Gregarious |
sociable |
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Axiomatic |
taken for granted |
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Forestall |
to prevent; delay |
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Extrapolation |
the act of estimation by projecting known information |
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Reproach |
to find fault with; blame |
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Refractory |
stubborn; unmanageable; resisting ordinary methods of treatment |
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Anondyne |
something that calms or soothes pain |
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Platitude |
stale, overused expression |
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Confound |
to baffle; perplex; mix up |
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Covert |
hidden; secret |
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Copious |
abundant; plentiful |
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Convivial |
sociable |
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Converge |
to approach; come together; tend to meet |
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Convention |
a practice widely observed in a group; custom; accepted technique or device |
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Compliant |
yielding |
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Disingenuous |
not candid; crafty |
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Aspersion |
slander; false rumor |
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Complacent |
self-satisfied |
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Collage |
artistic composition of materials pasted over a surface; an assemblage of diverse elements |
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Clairvoyant |
one who can predict the future; psychic |
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Categorical |
absolute; without exception |
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Carnal |
of the flesh or body; related to physical appetites |
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Cartography |
science of making maps |
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Ambivalence |
the state of having conflicting emotional attitudes |
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Ambiguous |
unclear or doubtful in meaning |
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Aesthetic |
relating to beauty or art |
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Behemouth |
huge creature; anything very large and powerful |
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Penchant |
inclination |
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Paucity |
scarcity |
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Paragon |
model of excellence or perfection |
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Cosmology |
study of the universe as a totality; theory of the origin and structure of the universe |
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Abstinence |
the giving up of certain pleasures |
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Abysmal |
very bad |
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Dogmatic |
stating opinions without proof |
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Euphemism |
use of agreeable or inoffensive language in place of unpleasant or offensive language |
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Antipathy |
dislike; hostility |
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Anachronism |
Something out of the proper time |
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Arduous |
extremely difficult; laborious |
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Beneficent |
kindly; doing good |
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Boorish |
rude; insensitive |
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Buttress |
to reinforce; support |
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Catalyst |
something causing change |
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Contentious |
quarrelsome; causing quarrels |
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Conundrum |
riddle; puzzle with no solution |
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Decorum |
proper behavior |
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Derivative |
something derived; unoriginal |
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Dichotomy |
division into two usually contradictory parts |
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Discordant |
not in tune |
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Discrete |
constituting a seperate thing; distinct |
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Dismiss |
put away from consideration; reject |
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Frugality |
thrift |
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Gullible |
easily deceived |
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Homogenous |
composed of identical parts; uniform in composition |
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Impermeable |
impossible to penetrate |
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Inadvertently |
carelessly; unintentionally |
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Inherent |
firmly established by nature or habit |
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Innocuous |
harmless |
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Insinuate |
to suggest; say indirectly; imply |
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Juxtapose |
place side by side |
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Lethargic |
inactive |
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Misogynist |
one who hates women |
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Oscillate |
to move back and forth |
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Appellation |
name |
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Avuncular |
like an uncle, benevolent and kind |
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Admonish |
to caution or reprimand |
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Avocation |
secondary occupation |
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Autonomous |
self-governing; independent |
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Adamant |
uncompromising; unyielding |
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Affinity |
fondess; liking; similarity |
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Aggrandize |
to make larger or greater |
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Aggregate |
amounting to a whole; total |
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Alloy |
a combination; a mixture of two or more metals |
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Amenable |
agreeable; cooperative; suited |
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Amenity |
something that increases comfort |
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Antecedent |
something that comes before |
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Appease |
to calm; pacify; placate |
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Apropos |
relevant |
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Arabesque |
ornate design featuring intertwined curves; a ballet position |
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Ardor |
great emotion or passion |
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Arrest |
to stop; to seize |
