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25 Cards in this Set
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Archaic |
marked by the characteristics of an earlier period; antiquated |
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Arcane |
known or understood by very few; mysterious; secret; obscure; esoteric |
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Polemarch (Polemics) Origin: Greek polemarchos |
a civilian official, originally a supreme general |
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Contemptuously |
showing or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; disrespectful |
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Disingenuous |
lacking in frankness, candor, or sincerity; falsely or hypocritically ingenuous; insincere |
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Condescending |
showing or implying a usually patronizing descent from dignity or superiority |
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Leer |
to look with a sideways or oblique glance, especially suggestive of lascivious interest or sly and malicious intention |
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Conciliatory |
to overcome the distrust or hostility of; placate; win over |
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Preemptive |
taken as a measure against something possible, anticipated, or feared; preventive; deterrent |
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Fastidious |
excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please |
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Atrophied |
exhibiting or affected with atrophy; wasted; withered; shriveled |
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Vestigial |
of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a vestige |
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Gluttonous |
tending to eat and drink excessively; voracious |
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Ascetic |
a person who dedicates his or her life to a pursuit of contemplative ideals and practices extreme self-denial or self-mortification for religious reasons |
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Xeno- (as a prefix) |
a combining form meaning alien, strange, guest, used in the formation of compound words |
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Interstices |
an intervening space |
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Attrition |
a wearing down or weakening of resistance, especially as a result of continuous pressure or harassment |
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Petulant |
moved to or showing sudden, impatient irritation, especially over some trifling annoyance |
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Coddle |
to treat tenderly; nurse or tend indulgently; pamper |
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Exigencies |
exigent state or character; urgency |
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Adulation |
excessive devotion to someone; servile flattery |
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Fiat |
an authoritative decree, sanction, or order |
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Littoral |
of or pertaining to the shore of a lake or sea or an ocean |
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Candor |
the state or quality of being frank, open, and sincere in speech or expression; candidness |
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Insolent |
boldly rude or disrespectful; contemptuously impertinent; insulting |
