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79 Cards in this Set

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Ambivalence

Indecision

Aphorism

A brief witty saying

Aptitude

Capacity for learning

Cadence

The rise and fall of sound

Camardarie

The quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability

Chameleon

A highly changeable person

Demise

Death

Dexterity

Mental skill

Dossier

A detailed report

Elation

Great joy

Elocution

The art of public speaking

Epitaph

Writing on a tombstone

Ethics

Moral philosophy

Euphemism

A pleasant expression in place of an unpleasant one

Effigy

An object created that represents someone who is not liked to express hatred

Farce

False imitation

Foray

Quick raid or sudden advance

Harbinger

One who announces the coming of someone or thing

Ideology

System of ideas

Invective

Insulting speech

Jubilation

Great joy

Kismet

Fate

Lineage

Descendants of a particular heritage

Memento

Remembrance

Moniker

Nickname

Phenomenon

Extremely unusual or extraordinary occurrence

Status quo

Exsisting state or condition

Subterfuge

Action to hide something from someone or a trick

Synopsis

Outline

Tyranny

Absolute power

Wanderlust

Strong Desire to roam

Zest

Hearty

Abate

Becoming fewer or less intense

Assuage

To soothe

Beget

To create

Defile

To make dirty or filthy

Digress

To stray from topic

Divert

To change direction of

Emulate

Strive to equal or match

Foster

Providing nurture if not related through blood

Induce

To cause to happen

Inquire

To seek info

Inundate

Flood

Levitate

To rise or float in air

Mollify

Calm appease

Peruse

Read carefully

Reform

Change for better

Revel

Take great pleasure and delight

Stagnate

To become motionless

Aesthetic

Artistic beauty

Amicable

Showing friendliness

Auspicious

Promising for the future

Benevolent

Kind

Bourgeois

Boringly middle class

Commensurate

Equal

Cynical

Being distrustful of humans and their motives

Facetious

Not serious

Hapless

Unlucky

Haughty

Arrogant

Indolent

Lazy

Ingeneous

Frank simply naïve

Laudable

Praiseworty

Literal

True to fact

Lithe

Bending easily and gracefully

Melancholy

Sad gloomy weary

Minuscule

Tiny

Obsequious

Ingratiating

Parochial

Narrowed or confined point of view

Perfunctory

Indifferent

Quasi

Resembling, but not being

Ruthless

Without mercy or compassion

Rampant

Happening often or becoming worse

Squalid

Dirty from lack of care or poverty

Uncanny

Difficult to explain

Uncouth

Awkward clumsy

Vacuous

Not showing purpose or meaning

Valiant

Bold courageous

Vicarious

Second hand fantasized

Voracious

Insatiable appetite