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24 Cards in this Set
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Preclude |
Prevent from happening |
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Incendiary |
of a device or attack) designed to cause fires. |
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Prosaic |
lacking poetic beauty. |
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Galvanize |
shock or excite (someone) into taking action |
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Impetuous |
cting or done quickly and without thought or care. |
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Inchoate |
just begun and so not fully formed or developed |
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Guileless |
Innocent and without deception |
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Unctuous |
of a person) excessively or ingratiatingly flattering |
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Ignoble |
not honorable in character or purpose. |
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Circumspect |
wary and unwilling to take risks. |
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Innocuous |
not harmful or offensive |
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Pernicious |
having a harmful effect |
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Deleterious |
causing harm or damage."divorce is assumed to have deleterious effects on children |
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Dearth |
a scarcity or lack of something."there is a dearth of evidence |
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Insularity |
ignorance of or lack of interest in cultures, ideas, or peoples outside one's own experience."an example of British insularity |
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Immaterial |
unimportant under the circumstances; irrelevant."so long as the band kept the beat, what they played was immaterial |
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Injurious |
causing or likely to cause damage or harm. |
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Rectitude |
morally correct behavior or thinking |
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Surfeit |
an excessive amount of something."a surfeit of food and drink" |
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Atropy |
(of body tissue or an organ) wasted away or rudimentary."atrophied muscles" |
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Ostensible |
stated or appearing to be true, but not necessarily so. |
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Fecundity |
The ability to create an abundance of offspring; fertility |
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Buttress |
A projecting support of stone or brick built against a wall |
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Proliferate |
Increase rapidly in numbers |
