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44 Cards in this Set
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Declivity |
Downward slope |
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Decorous |
Characterized by proprietary |
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Deleterious |
Harmful to living things |
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Demagogue |
A leader supported by popular passion |
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Desultory |
Lack of plan or purpose |
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Diaphanous |
So thin as to transmit light |
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Diffident |
Showing modest reserve |
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Dilatory |
Wasting time |
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Dilettante |
Amateur with out serious intention |
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Dirge |
Hymn for mourning |
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Disparate |
Fundamentally different |
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Dissemble |
Behave unnaturally |
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Dissonance |
Disagreeable sounds |
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Distaff |
Staff on which wool is wound |
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Distend |
Expand by internal pressure |
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Doctrinaire |
Stubborn arrogant person |
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Dyspeptic |
Suffering from indigestion |
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Ebullient |
Joyously unrestrained |
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Edify |
Make understand |
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Elegy |
Mournful poem |
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Encomium |
Formal praise |
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Enervate |
Weaken mentally or morally |
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Engender |
Make kids |
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Hapless |
Deserving or inciting pity |
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Ephemeral |
Short lived |
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Epicure |
Person devoted to refined serious enjoyment |
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Ersatz |
Inferior or artificial substitute |
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Esoteric |
Understood by only enlightened group |
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Estimable |
Deserving of respect or high regard |
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Ethos |
Distinctive spirit of culture or time |
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Euphony |
Pleasing sound |
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Exculpate |
Pronounce not guilty |
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Exigent |
Demanding attention |
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Expurgate |
Omitting parts that are indelicate |
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Fatuous |
Devoid of intelligence |
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Fecund |
Capable of reproducing |
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Fetid |
Stinky |
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Florid |
Elaborately ornamented |
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Foment |
Try to stir up |
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Ford |
Cross a river |
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Fractious |
Easily irritated |
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Frenetic |
Excessively agitated |
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Furtive |
Secret and sly |
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Gambol |
Play loudly |
