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20 Cards in this Set
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Aficionado |
An enthusiastic and usually expert follower or fan |
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Browbeat |
To intimidate by a stern or overbearing manner, to bully |
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Commensurate |
Equal in size, extent, duration, or importance |
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Diaphanous |
Very sheer and light, almost completely transparent |
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Emolument |
A profit derived from an office or position from employment |
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Foray |
A quick raid, especially for plunder, a venture into some field of endeavor |
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Genre |
A type, class, variety, especially a class of literary composition |
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Homily |
A sermon stressing moral principles; a tedious moralizing lecture or discourse |
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Immure |
To enclose or confine within walls ; to imprison |
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Insouciant |
Blithely indifferent or unconcerned; carefree, happy-go-lucky |
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Matrix |
A mold; surrounding situation or environment |
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Obsequies |
Funeral rights or ceremonies |
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Panache |
A confident or stylish manner, a strikingly elaborate or colorful display |
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Persona |
A character in a novel or play |
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Philippic |
A bitter verbal attack |
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Prurient |
Having lustful desires or interests; lewd |
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Sacrosanct |
Very sacred or holy; inviolable; set apart or immune from attack |
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Systemic |
Of or pertaining to the entire body, relating to a system or systems |
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Tendentious |
Intended to promote particular point of view, doctrine, or cause; biased or partisan |
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Vicissitude |
A change, variation, or alteration |
