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40 Cards in this Set
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Austere
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s) forbidding rigorous puritanical ascetic unadorned
A)mild induldgent luxurious flamboyant |
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beneficent
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s) humanitariag magnanimous charitable
a) selfish cruel harmful deleterious |
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cadaverous
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s) corpselike wasted haggard emaciated ghastly
A) robust portly rosy the picture of health |
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crass
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s) crude vulgar tasteless oafish obtuse
a) refined elegant tasteful polished brilliant |
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debase
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s) cheapen corrupt demean depreciate
a) elevate uplift improve enhance |
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mitigate
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s) lessen alleviate
a) exacerbate aggravate |
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prate
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s) chatter prattle plavar
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punctilious
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s) precise scrupulous
a) careless lax perfunctory |
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redoubtable
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s) awesome formidable august
a) laughable risible contemptible |
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restitution
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compensation reimbursement redress restoration
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stalwart
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s) sturdy stout intrepid valiant mainstay
a) weak infirm irresolute vacillating |
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acrimonious
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s) biting caustic rancorous hostile peevish
a) gentle warm mild friendly cordial |
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corpulent
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s) overweight heavy obese stout portly
a) slender lean spare gaunt emaciated |
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dissipate
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s)disperse strew diffuse waste
a) gather collect conserve husband |
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expurgate
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s) purge sensor bowlderize
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gauntlet
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dare provocation trial punishment
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hypothetical
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s) assumed supposed conjecturul
a) actual real tested substantiated |
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ignoble
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s) inferior unworthy sordid
a) admirable lofty noble |
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impugn
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s) challenge deny dispute query question
a) confirm prove verify validate |
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intemperate
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s) excessive extreme unrestrained inordinate
a)moderate restrained cool and collected |
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odium
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s)abhorrance opprobium shame ignominy
a) esteem admiration approbation |
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perfidy
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s) duplicity treason
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relegate
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s) transfer consign demote exile
a) promote elevate advance recall |
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squeamish
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s) nauseated queasy delicate oversensitive priggish
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subservient
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s) secondary servile obsequious useful
a) primary principal bossy domineering |
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susceptible
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s) vulnerable receptive impressioble
a) resistant immune |
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abate
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s) diminish
a) intensify magnify wax |
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adulation
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s) adoration idolization
a) ridicule derision scorn odium |
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anathema
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a)malediction imprecation abomination
a)benediction blessing |
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astute
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s) shrewd acute sagacious judicious wily
a) obtise doltish dumb |
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avarice
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greed cupidity rapacity acquisitiveness
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culpable
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s) guilty delinquent peccant blameworthy
a) blameless innocent laudable meritorious |
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egregious
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s) glaring flagrant blatant
a) unnoticeable paltry piddling |
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equivocate
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s) palter, hedge, talk out of both sides of ones mouth
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evanescent
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s) ephemeral transient transitory
a) everlasting immortal imperishable |
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nebulous
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s) vague murky opaque indeterminate
a) definite distinct |
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novice
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s)neophyte tyro trainee apprentice
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pretentious
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s) inflated (done for show) ostentatious affected
a)unassuming unaggected modest |
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slovenly
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s)unkept slatternly slipshod lax
a) neat tidy meticulous |
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torpid
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s)sluggish lethargic otiose languid
a) energetic dynamic vigorous |