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20 Cards in this Set
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micturate
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(v) to urinate
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Conflagrate
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(v) cause to start burning
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Caprice/Capricious
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(n/adj.) an impulsive change of mind, sudden desire
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Epistollary*
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of or relating to letters
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extricate
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(trans.vb.)to release form an entanglement/danger
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Expropriate
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(trans.vb.)
1. to deprive of possesiom 2. to transfer (the property of another) to oneself (like stealing) |
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Extrapolate
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(vb) to make a generalization based on a particular (like stereotyping)
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Jingoism
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(noun) extreme nationalism characterized especially by a belligerent foreign policy; partiotism
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Avatar
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(noun) an embodiment as of a quality or concept
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Lascivious
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(adj.)
1. given to overpresisng lust; lecherous 2. exciting sexual desires |
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Lecherous
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(adj.) given to excessive indulgence in sexual activity
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Anhedonia/Hedonist*
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(nouns)
1. a pleasure seeker 2. absence of pleasure from acts that one once found pleasurable |
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Sublime
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(adj.) majestic or scary and beautiful at the same time (ex. glaciers in Frankenstein)
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Precipitious
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(adj) extremely steep
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Countenance
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(noun) facial features/expression
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Hubris
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(noun) overbearing pride
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Exacerbate
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(trans.vb.) to increase the violence, bitterness, or severity of
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Immutable
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(adj.)not subject to change in form, quality or nature
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Temperment
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default mood
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Monomaniacal
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(noun) pathological obsession w/one idea or subject
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