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69 Cards in this Set
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Scavenge 1 |
To clean refuse (waste) from; to remove unwanted |
I scavenged my house for food |
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Immure 1 |
To lock up or confine |
In June 1619 he was immured in the fortress of Louvestein. |
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Gesticulate 1 |
To show, express or direct through movement. |
The deaf woman tried frantically to gesticulate her fears to the police interprete. |
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Efflorensce 1 |
The time and process of budding and unfolding Blossoms |
The evidence for it is not to be confused with that for the law of rapid efflorescence of groups just considered. |
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Uncommunicative 1 |
Not inclined to talk or give information or express opinions |
My brother was uncommunicative when asked why he had done what he did. |
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Crumple 1 |
To gather something into small wrinkles or folds |
I had crumpled paper everywhere after effortless tries |
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Swathe 1 |
To wrap in swaddling clothes |
I swathed the babe with its favorite blanket. |
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Irrelevance 1 |
The lack of revelation of something to the matter ahead |
His comment was irrelevant with the conversation we were having. |
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Immerse 1 |
To cause to be thrown into |
Many video games now, try to immerse you into the enviroment of the character |
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Submerge 1 |
To put underwater |
I had submerged myself into the lake that hot summer day. |
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Whittle |
To cut into small bits or pare shavings from |
The cliff was whittled away by the rain |
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Underlay |
To place something under or beneath something |
The underlayed trash can was there for a reason |
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Discusive 2 |
Tending to cover wide range |
He was discursive on the kand he was in |
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Hiatus |
An interuption in the intensity or amount of something |
There was a hiatus in the work because of the rain |
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Tenesly |
In a stressed matter |
He was tensely getting his work done by the date it was due |
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Snivel |
Cry or whine with something |
The child was sniveling after he had got in trouble |
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Crass |
Lacking sensitivity refinement or intelligence |
He was crass because that was the way his father was |
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Emboss |
To carve mold or stamp onto a surface |
He embossed his name into the metal |
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Dangle |
To hang freely |
The rope was dangling after the swing broke |
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Impalable |
Not percepible to the touch |
The idea was impalable in this day and age. |
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Ludicrous 3 |
laughable and obviously observed |
This adventurer, at once ludicrous and formidable, was a native of Ireland, and was thought to be put forward by Richard to test the popularity of the Yorkist cause. |
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Ineffectual 3 |
insufficient to produce a result; useless |
Her kicks were ineffectual against the guardsman's chainmail, and his sword plunged into her chest. |
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Jeer 3 |
To abuse vocally; to taint or mock |
When the basketball bounced off the rim for the second time, Nolan knew that the crowd would probably jeer at him. |
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Inarticulate 3 |
Incomprehensible;unable to speak with clarity |
His was one of those natures whose faculty of deep feeling is unhappily doomed to be inarticulate, and to pass away without the magic power of transmitting itself. |
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Leviathan 3 |
Something very large, giant sea creature in the bible |
It is plain, then, that phrenologically the head of this Leviathan, in the creature's living intact state, is an entire delusion. |
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Clamor 3 |
A loud outcry, great expression or discontent |
The distant clamor of voices became a nearby roar. |
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Mutinously 3 |
Unruly, insubordinate or constituting mutiny. |
Then Gabriel shrieked out to his comrades to give way with their oars, and in that manner the mutinous boat rapidly shot away from the Pequod. |
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Crestfallen 3 |
Dispirited or depressed |
His crestfallen look should have been a victory, but instead she wished she could eat the words. |
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Impervious 3 |
Incapable of being penetrated or affected |
He clasped his arms behind his head and lay down, impervious to the cold. |
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Enterprise 3 |
An undertaking or business; industrious |
The free enterprise system requires the basic honesty and goodwill of most people. |
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Egregious 4 |
Extremely bad |
He told me an egregious lie! |
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Odious 4 |
Instilling hatred or intense displeasure |
He had to repay the odious debt to the Council. |
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Prosaic 4 |
Plain, lacking liveliness |
On his return to France, a sadder and practically a wiser man, he settled down to very prosaic work. |
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Vex 4 |
To confuse or annoy |
If you attempt to vex the dog by pulling his tail, he is sure to bite you |
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Capricious 4 |
Subject to whim, fickle |
Because of his capricious nature, Jeremy found it hard to keep a steady job |
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Assiduous 4 |
Hard-working, diligent |
That was very assiduous of you to finish those financial reports weeks ahead of schedule. |
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Feral 4 |
Wild, savage |
Feral pigs are numerous in New Zealand. |
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Decry 4 |
To criticize openly |
After the immigration bill was passed, the racist groups started to decry the features of the act |
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Burnish 4 |
To polish, shine |
Yet, in saying this, I do but indirectly burnish a little brighter the noble merit of the poem and the poet |
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Zephyr 4 |
A gentle breeze |
By evening, the harsh wind following the storm had turned into a zephyr that did nothing more than move the leaves |
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Cerebral 5 |
Of or relating to of the brain |
The skull is abnormally thick and the cerebral capacity small. |
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Susceptible 5 |
Yielding ready or capable of |
After he recovered from the stabbing, the Doctor said he had scar tissue and would be susceptible to pneumonia in the injured lung. |
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Impediment 5 |
Something in material that interferes with action or progress |
His father having lost his fortune and sold the family estate, Thomas May, who was hampered by an impediment in his speech, made literature his profession. |
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Woe 5 |
Misery resulting in affliction |
Woe to him who seeks to pour oil upon the waters when God has brewed them into a gale |
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Whimper 5 |
Cry weakly or softly |
She started to groan with pleasure, but it came out more an eager whimper that sent a rush of heat to her face. |
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Perseverance 5 |
Persistent determination |
They have a full bell-like cry and great cunning and perseverance: in the tracking of hares and rabbits |
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Persistent 5 |
Never-ceasing |
Deidre wasn't certain if there was any affection for his daughter, though his persistence in healing her was a sign of either care or obligation. |
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Ambidextrous 5 |
Equally skillful with each hand |
Deidre wasn't certain if there was any affection for his daughter, though his persistence in healing her was a sign of either care or obligation.
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Minion 5 |
Servile or fawning dependant |
By the end of his life the man who had started as the kings unpopular minion was known as Earl Simon the Righteous, and had become the respected leader of the national opposition to his royal brother-in-law |
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Decrepit 5 |
Worn and broken down by hard use |
She opened her eyes and looked around, not recognizing the decrepit factory |
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Vow 6 |
Promise |
The response was instantaneous: the king of France himself, who bore on his conscience the burden of an unpunished massacre by his troops at Vitry in 1142, 4 took the crusading vow on the Christmas day of 1145. |
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Pummel 6 |
Strike, usually with the fist |
She began pummeling his chest with her fists. |
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Stroll 6 |
Walk leisurely and with no apparent aim |
A stroll with me along that beach
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Bureau 6 |
An administrative unit of government |
Some of the American ginners are very large indeed, a number (Bulletin of the Bureau of the Census on Cotton Production) being reported as containing on the average 1 156 saws with an average production of 4120 bales of cotton |
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Impending 6 |
To lose in time; about to occur |
He now understood the whole meaning and importance of this war and of the impending battle.
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Rummage 6 |
Search haphazardly |
Let him rummage around inside it and find all those treasures himself |
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Petrify 6 |
To change into stone |
An example of petrify is when wood changes into a stone-like substance over time |
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Articulate 6 |
Characterized by clear expressive language |
The definition of articulate is someone capable of speaking easily and clearly, and is most often referred to someone who is well-spoken. |
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Tautology 6 |
A statement that is necessarily true |
It is now generally recognized that it is mere tautology to speak of zoology and comparative anatomy, and that museum naturalists must give attention as well to the inside as to the outside of animals. |
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Illiterate 7 |
Not able to read or write |
Regimental schools impart elementary education to illiterate soldiers |
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Dilate 7 |
To make or become wider |
They therefore lessen all the secretions, and among other actions dilate the pupil and increase the rapidity of the heart by paralysing the vagus.
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Redundancy 7 |
Repetition of an act needlessly |
In fact, the great blemishes of In Memoriam, its redundancy and the dislocation of its parts, were largely due to the desultory manner of its composition. |
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Secede 7 |
Withdraw from an organization or polity |
He argued that a state had no legal right to secede, but denied that the federal government had any power forcibly to prevent it. |
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Monotonous 7 |
Sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch |
"You can see the stars, kiri," he said in his monotonous, mechanical voice. |
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Mode 7 |
A particular functioning condition or arrangement |
The mode of using the paper ribbon for the transmission of the message is illustrated in fig |
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Subtle 7 |
Difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze |
It was a subtle shade of gray. |
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Earnest 7 |
Showing sincere and intense conviction. |
His simple, earnest response and the conviction on his face floored her. |
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Taut 7 |
Pulled or drawn tight |
She felt dwarfed and delicate next to the mass of roped muscle and taut skin |
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Retroactive 7 |
Affecting things past |
In 1893 the disqualification was made no longer retroactive, the two-year clause was omitted, and the test oath covered only present renunciation of polygamy. |
