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15 Cards in this Set
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Abase |
to cause or feel shame; to hurt the pride of |
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officious |
overly meddlesome or overly attentive |
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stilted |
stiffly formal; pompous |
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insouciance |
lack of concern or worry; the state of being carefree |
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intransigent |
refusing to come to terms; uncompromising |
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foment |
to cause or incite |
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nepotism |
favoritism shown to relatives, esp. in job appointments |
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noisome |
harmful; offensive to smell; disgusting |
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nominal |
in name only, not in fact |
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extrapolate |
to form an opinion or to estimate something using known facts |
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hackneyed |
commonplace; overused |
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incontrovertible |
not able to be doubted; questioned, denied, or disputed |
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ostensibly |
stating or declaring something as one thing but underneath having a different motivation or meaning |
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discursive |
passing from one subject to another |
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zeitgeist |
the defining spirit or mood of a particular period of history as shown by the ideas and beliefs of the time |
