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53 Cards in this Set
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Elations
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feeling of joy and pride
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Epigram
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A witty saying
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Abortive
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to stop doing, Failing to accomplish an intended result
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Levity
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Feeling an inappropriate lack of seriousness
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Plagiaristic
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Copied and passed off as your own
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Communicative
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tending to communicate
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Privy
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informed about something secret or not generally known; "privy to the details of the conspiracy"
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Superficial
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concerned with a surface; not deep or penetrating emotionally or intellectually
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Sinister
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Threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments;
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Reproach
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Disgrace or shame
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Turbulence
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A state of violent disturbance and disorder; unstable
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Supercilious
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Having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy
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Languidly
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Lacking spirit or liveliness
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Extemporizing
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To do or perform (something) without prior preparation or practice
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Peremptorily:
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Putting an end to all debate or action: a peremptory decree.
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Intimation
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An indirect suggestion; "not a breath of scandal ever touched her"
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Grotesque
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hideous
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Transcendent
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Beyond and outside the ordinary range of human experience or understanding
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Contiguous
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Connecting without a break; within a common boundary
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Proprietary
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An unincorporated business owned by a single person who is responsible for its liabilities and entitled to its profits; ownership
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Hauteur
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arrogance
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Strident
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harsh
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Disconcerting
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Causing an emotional disturbance; "his disconcerting habit of greeting friends ferociously and strangers charmingly"- Herb Caen; "an upsetting experience"
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Harrowed
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A cultivating implement that pulverizes or smoothes the soil
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Pastoral
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A literary work idealizing the rural life.
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Defunct
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No longer in force or use; inactive; "a defunct (or dead) law"; "a defunct organization"
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Somnambulate
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Walk in one's sleep
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Denizen
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A person who lives in a particular place
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Vestige
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A clue that something has been present; "there wasn't a trace of evidence for the claim"
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Punctilious
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Marked by precise accordance with details; "was worryingly meticulous about trivial details"; "punctilious in his attention to rules of etiquette"
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Retribution
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A justly deserved penalty
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Postern
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A small gate in the rear of a fort or castle
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Demoniac
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Someone who acts as if possessed by a demon
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Dilatory
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procrastinating
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Euphemisms
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mild word substitutions
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Laudable
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praiseworthy
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Turgid
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swollen
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Antecedents
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what one before
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Substantiality
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reality
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Septic
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decaying
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insidious
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deceitful
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Ineffable
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in expressive
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Ingratiate
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put oneself in favor
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meretricious
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deceitfully alluring
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indiscreet
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Lacking discretion; injudicious: an indiscreet remark
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boisterously
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Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline.
An event that may occur but that is not likely or intended; a possibility. |
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contingency
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A possibility that must be prepared for; a future emergency.
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inviolate
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not subject to change, damage, or destruction
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explicable
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Able to be explained
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portentous
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inspiring wonder and amazement
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vicariously
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experienced through another person rather than at first hand, by using sympathy or the power of the imagination
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presumptuous
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inconsiderate, disrespectful, or overconfident, especially in doing something when not entitled or qualified to do it
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expostulation
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to express disagreement or disapproval, or attempt to dissuade somebody from doing something
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