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23 Cards in this Set
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abstemious abstemiously abstemisouness
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easting and drinking in moderation, charactized by abstinence or moderation
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auspicious
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attended by favorable circumstances, propitious, marked by sucess, prosperous
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deleterious
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having a harmful effect, injurious
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incontrovertable
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impossible to dispute, unquestionable
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onerous(adj) onerously(adv)
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involving, imposing, or onstitution a burden:troublesome 2. having legal obligations that outweigh the advantages
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pernicious (adj) perniciously (adv) perniciousness(n)
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1. highly injurious or destructive, deadly 2. archaic: wicked
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pathos(n)
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an emotion of sympathetic pity, great deep earnest emotion or feeling or compassion, the quality of tugging at the heart-strings
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multitudinous (adj) -ly(adv) multitudinousness (n )
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existing in great multitude, existing in or consisting of innumerable elements or aspects, including a multitude of individuals
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mordant (adj)
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biting or caustic in thought, manner or style, :burning, pungent
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astringent (adj)
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causing contraction of soft organic tissue. 2. rigidly severe, austere, pungent caustic
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portentous (adj) -ly (adv) portentousness
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being a grave or serious manner, self-conciously solemn, 2. ponderously excessive
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insipid (adj) insipidity (n)
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lacking taste or savor to please 2. lacking in qualites that stimulate, interest, or challenge
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nebulous (adj) -ly (adv) nebulousness (n)
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indistinct or vague
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ancillary (adj)
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subordinate, subsidiary, auxillary, supplementary
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ostentatious (adj)
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marked by or fond of conspicious or vainglorious and sometimes pretentious display
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pretentious (adj)
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making unjustified or exessive claims, unwarranted or exxagerated importance worth or stature
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parochial (adj) parochially (adv)
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of or ralting to a church parish 2. confined or restricted as if within the boundaries or a parish: limited in range or scope (as to a narrow area or region) : provincial, narrow
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precarious(adj) precariously(adv) precariousness(n)
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1. depending on the will or pleasure of another. 2. dependent on uncertain premises. 3. dependent on chance circumstances, unknown conditions, or uncertain developments, characterized by lack of security or stability
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rancor
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bitter deep-seated ill will
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antinomy(noun), antinomic(adj)
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a contradiction between two apparently equally valid principles or between inferences correctly drawn from such principles. 2. a fundamental and apparently unresolvable conflict or contradiction
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confluence (n)
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1. a coming or flowing together, meeting, or gathering at one point 2. the place of meeting or two streams formed by junction
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malignant (adj)
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evil in nature, disaffected 2. injurious, passionately and relentlessly malicious 3. tending to produce death or deterioration
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tenuous
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1. having little substance or strength: flimsy weak 2. not thick (slender) 3. not dense
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