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51 Cards in this Set
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Banter |
Engage in playful conversation |
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Beatify |
To bless, sanctify |
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Desicrate |
Curse, opposite to beatify |
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Bedizen |
To dress in bad and vulgar way |
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Bifurcate |
Divide into two, schism |
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Bolster |
To give boost, support |
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Broach |
To mention it for the first time |
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Burgeon |
Flourish |
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Burnish |
To polish |
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Buttress |
To reinforce, support |
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Cadge |
To beg, to sponge, to exploit |
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Carping |
To complain, to criticize |
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Chasten |
Correct by punishment |
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Cloister |
To confine, seclude |
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Coagulate |
To thicken |
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Trite |
Common, boring, hackenyed, mundane |
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Rancid |
Spoilt |
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Laconic |
Not expressive, antonym to articulate, curt, reticent |
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Palpable |
Noticeable |
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Wheedle |
To endeavour or to influence by smooth, flattering or beguiling words/acts |
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Niggerly |
Similar to miserly |
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Offset |
Counter balance |
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Undermine |
Discourage, subvert |
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Subvert |
Ruin something |
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Preclude |
Avoid |
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Dissolute |
Loose, not firm |
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Pervasive |
Spread or occupy |
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Encroach |
Infringing, illegally occupy |
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Convocation |
The way we give emotional colour to the word |
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Unobtrusively |
Without getting much attention |
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Ubiquitous |
Everywhere |
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Benignity |
Noun form of benign |
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Cavernous |
Like a cavern in shape and size |
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Harboured |
To nurture |
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Theatrical |
Stagey |
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Naysayers |
People who negate something |
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Incumbents |
People holding in the office, the ones in power |
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Anti incumbency factor |
Dissatisfaction of people against elected government |
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Vanity |
Proud about something |
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Manifest |
Something that shows itself |
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Narcissistic |
Self love |
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Assuaged |
Pampered |
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Disparagement |
Belittle |
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Deried |
Mock someone; jeer at someone; derisive |
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Bestowed |
Place something nice on someone |
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Venerate |
Regard with great respect; revere |
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perennial |
Permanent |
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Palpable |
Something that you can touch and feel, tangeable |
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Unruly |
Undisciplined, messy, chaotic |
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Altruistic |
Selflessness |
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Proliferating |
Increasing |