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69 Cards in this Set

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Antipathy
Hostility toward, objection, or aversion to
Aver
To declare
Blandishment
Speech or action intended to coax someone into doing something
Burgeon
To grow or flourish
Buttress
To support
Cadge
To get something by taking advantage of someone
Caprice
Impulse
Complaisant
Willingly compliant or accepting of the status quo
Conflagration
A great fire
Corporeal
Having to do with material
Corporal
Of the body
Corroborate
To strengthen or support
Craven
Cowardly
Deference
Submission or courteous yielding
Depredation
The act of preying upon
Descry
To make clear
Disabuse
To free a person from falsehood
Disparaging
Belittling
Dissemble
To conceal one's real motive
Dogged
Stubborn; determined
Efficacy
Effectiveness
Effluent
The quality of flowing out
Emulate
To strive to equal or excel
Encomium
A formal eulogy or speech of praise
Engender
To give rise to; to cause
Exorbitant
Exceeding customary or normal limits
Explicit
Fully and clearly expressed
Fathom
A measure of length; to penetrate to the depths of something in order to understand
Fledgling
Inexperienced person
Florid
Flushed with a rosy color
Gossamer
Very fine
Guile
Skillful deceit
Headlong
Impulsive
Improvidence
An absence of foresight
Indelible
Permanent
Ineffable
Undescribable
Ingenious
Clever
Insensible
Numb; unconscious
Insular
Of or pertaining to an island; excessively exclusive
Intransigent
Stubborn
Latent
Present or potential but not evident or active
Leviathan
Something very large
Lugubrious
Gloomy
Misnomer
Incorrect name or word for something
Obdurate
Hardened against influence or feeling; intractable
Obviate
To prevent by anticipatory meausres; to make unnecessary
Panegyric
A writing or speech in praise of a person or thing
Peccadillo
A small sin or fault
Petulant
Easily or frequently annoyed
Plastic
Capable of being molded
Ponderous
Heavy; massive
Precipice
Cliff with a vertical face
Precipitate
To bring about or hasten the occurence of something
Prevaricate
To evade the truth
Prodigal
Rashly wasteful
Propitiate
To appease; to conciliate
Reproof
The act of rebuking
Sanguine
Cheerful
Saturnine
Having a gloomy or morose temperament
Savant
A genious
Sedulous
Diligent; persistent
Tacit
Unspoken; Implied
Temperate
Exercising moderation and self-denial; calm or mild
Tractable
Ability to be easily managed
Turpitude
Corrupt practice; depravity
Vacuous
Empty
Verbose
Wordy
Zeal
Enthusiastic devotion to a cause, ideal, or goal
Voracious
Craving or devouring large quantities of food