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75 Cards in this Set

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Abstarct
Theoretical: not concrete
Levity
Lightness
Opaque
Dark:not transparent
Adversary
opponet
Instigate
urge;start
Reprehensible
Deserving blame
Redundant
Superflous;excessively wordy
Ambigous
Unclear or doubtful in meaning
Fallacious
Misleading
Ameliorate
to improve
Anarchist
a person who rebels against the established order
Converge
Come together
Antithesis
a contrast; the direct opposite of or to
Apathy
a lack of caring; a feeling of indifference
Diminution
lessening; reduction in size
Articulate
to speal clearly and distinctly
Ascendary
a controlling influence
Astute
wise
Atrophy
a wasting away of something
Augment
to increase
Austerity
sterness; severity; lack of luxuries
Banal
Hackneyed; commonplace
Benevolent
Generous
Benign
kindly; favorable
Bequeath
to leave to someone by a will; to hand down
Blasphemy
cursing; irreverence
Brevity
shortness
Cajole
to force negatively
Sagacious
keen; shrewd
Predilection
preference
Enervate
to weaken
Immutable
unchangeable
Innocuous
harmless
Magnanimous
generous
Emulate
to imitate; to rival
Deprecate
to express disapproval of
Conciliatory
reconciling; soothing
Mitigate
to appease
Despondent
depressed
Fastidious
difficult to please
Eclectic
selective in choosing from a variety of sources
Ingenuous
Naive; young
Trepidation
fear
Superfluous
Excessive; unnecessary
Vilify
to slander
Peripheral
marginal; outer
Effervescent
bubbly and excited
Altruistic
unselfishly generous
Condone
to overlook
Stoic
a person who is indifferent to pleasure or pain
Viable
capable of maintaing life
Reticence
reserve; uncommunicativeness
Scrupulous
extremely thorough
Implicit
stated but not understood
Indolent
lazy
Zealot
fanatic
Surreptitious
secret
Perfunctory
superficial; not thorough
Mundane
Worldly as opposed to spiritual
Oblivion
state of forgetfulness
Sycophant
servile flatterer
Enigma
puzzle
Incontrovertible
indisputable
Sanction
to approve; to ratify
Piety
religious devotion
Opulence
wealth
Virtuoso
a highly skilled artist
Conviction
a strongly held belief
Cursory
casual;hastily done
Delineate
tp portray
Exacerbate
to worsen
Depravity
corruption
Laconic
brief and to the point
Ephemeral
short-lived
Affirmation
positive assertion