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51 Cards in this Set

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Banter

Engage in playful conversation

Beatify

To bless, sanctify

Desicrate

Curse, opposite to beatify

Bedizen

To dress in bad and vulgar way

Bifurcate

Divide into two, schism

Bolster

To give boost, support

Broach

To mention it for the first time

Burgeon

Flourish

Burnish

To polish

Buttress

To reinforce, support

Cadge

To beg, to sponge, to exploit

Carping

To complain, to criticize

Chasten

Correct by punishment

Cloister

To confine, seclude

Coagulate

To thicken

Trite

Common, boring, hackenyed, mundane

Rancid

Spoilt

Laconic

Not expressive, antonym to articulate, curt, reticent

Palpable

Noticeable

Wheedle

To endeavour or to influence by smooth, flattering or beguiling words/acts

Niggerly

Similar to miserly

Offset

Counter balance

Undermine

Discourage, subvert

Subvert

Ruin something

Preclude

Avoid

Dissolute

Loose, not firm

Pervasive

Spread or occupy

Encroach

Infringing, illegally occupy

Convocation

The way we give emotional colour to the word

Unobtrusively

Without getting much attention

Ubiquitous

Everywhere

Benignity

Noun form of benign

Cavernous

Like a cavern in shape and size

Harboured

To nurture

Theatrical

Stagey

Naysayers

People who negate something

Incumbents

People holding in the office, the ones in power

Anti incumbency factor

Dissatisfaction of people against elected government

Vanity

Proud about something

Manifest

Something that shows itself

Narcissistic

Self love

Assuaged

Pampered

Disparagement

Belittle

Deried

Mock someone; jeer at someone; derisive

Bestowed

Place something nice on someone

Venerate

Regard with great respect; revere

perennial

Permanent

Palpable

Something that you can touch and feel, tangeable

Unruly

Undisciplined, messy, chaotic

Altruistic

Selflessness

Proliferating

Increasing