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20 Cards in this Set
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Beguile
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V deceive, mislead, fool, trick
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Belie
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V to show something to be false, contradict
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Benevolent
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Adj kind and helpful, charitable
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Bequeath
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V to pass down, to hand down
Ex: will |
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Bleak
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Adj bare, stark, cold, empty, not welcoming
Ex: Antarctica |
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Brevity
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N short, briefness, using few words or lasting short time
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Cacophonous
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Adj unpleasant, harsh sounding
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Cajole
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V to persuade, beg, plead, convince
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Candor
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N the quality of being truthful or honest, frankness
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Censure
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V to criticize
N strong disapproval |
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Charlatan
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N someone who pretends to have skills, phony, fraud, a quack
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Circumlocution
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N talking in circles, indirect way of saying something
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Coalesce
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V to mix, blend, to grow together
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Colloquial
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Adj conversational, informal conversation speech
Ex: slang |
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Complacency
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N false sense of security, comfortable, naïve failure to see
“to show complacency” |
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Concede
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V to give over, to acknowledge as true
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Conflagration
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N a very intense, uncontrolled fire
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Confluence
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N place where things flow together, (rivers)
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Confound
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V to be confused, to cause to be unable to think
“huh?” |
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Compliance
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N FORMAL when people obey an order, rule or request, MAINLY DISAPPROVING the tendency to be too willing to do what other people want you to do
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