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30 Cards in this Set
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Maverick |
Someone who exhibits independence in thought and action |
Think Top Gun. |
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Ambivalence |
Mixed feelings or emotions |
Not sure how I feel. Kind of mixed |
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Contentious |
Showing an inclination to disagree |
Probably not gonna agree with you. |
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Efficacy |
Capacity or power to produce a desired effect. |
It could work. It has a chance. |
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Immutable |
Not subject or susceptible to change or variation |
Always gonna be the same. |
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Mendacious |
Given to lying |
Pathological lier |
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Ameliorate |
To make better. |
Improvement. |
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Contrite |
Feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses |
Remorse, regret. |
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Effrontery |
Audacious behavior that you have no right to |
Making a scene in public. |
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Impair |
Make worse or less effective. |
Not break. Just not as good as it use to be. |
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Metamorphosis |
Striking change in appearance or character or circumstances. |
Demon Hunter Ability. Extra damage, 100% leech, 3 min. CD |
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Anachronism |
Something located at a time when it could not have existed. |
God only knows in Bioshock Infinite |
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Conundrum |
A difficult problem |
Huh. Quite the conundrum. Very difficult to solve |
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Elegy |
A mournful Poem; a lament for the dead. |
Written for funerals, usually. |
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Impassive |
Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility |
Switzerland. Neutral. |
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Meticulous |
Marked by precise accordance with details |
Very precise. Small details. |
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Analogous |
Similar or equivalent in some respects. |
Kind of the same. Not exactly. |
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Converge |
Be adjacent or come together. |
Opposite of Diverge: To bring apart. |
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elicit |
Call forth, as an emotion, feeling, or response. |
The book elicited a tear from my eye. |
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Impede |
Be a hinderance or obstacle to. |
Thing in the way. |
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Misanthrope |
Someone who dislikes people in general. |
People suck |
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Anarchy |
A state of lawlessness and disorder |
No government or law. |
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Convoluted |
Highly complex or intricate |
Lots of little moving parts. |
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Embellish |
Make more attractive, as by adding ornament or color. |
Embellish the tree by adding the ornaments. |
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Impermeable |
Preventing especially liquids to pass or diffuse through |
Umbrellas don't let water through. |
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Mitigate |
Lessen or try to lessen the seriousness or extent of. |
Damage mitigation-40% reduced damage |
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Anomalous |
Deviating from the general or common order or type. |
Not the norm. |
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Ambiguous |
Having more than one possible meaning. |
Murder- Bad thing to do, or a flock of crows. |
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Contention |
The act of competing as for profit or a prize. |
Compete for the grand prize. |
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Eclectic |
Selecting what seems best of various styles or ideas. |
Out of all these paintings, which is best. |
