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19 Cards in this Set
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Extirpate |
Root out and destroy completely |
"the use of every legal measure to extirpate this horrible evil from the land" |
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Incommensurate |
Out of proportion with |
The problem, as Leavis understood, is that science and the humanities are inherently incommensurate endeavors |
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Profligate |
recklessly extravagant or wasteful in the use of resources |
"profligate consumers of energy" |
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Tantamount |
equivalent in seriousness to |
"the resignations were tantamount to an admission of guilt" |
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Sanctimonious |
making a show of being morally superior to other people. |
"what happened to all the sanctimonious talk about putting his family first?" |
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Extricate |
free (someone or something) from a constraint or difficulty. |
Several survivors were extricated from the wreckage |
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Abrogate |
To end something |
The ministry proposed to abrogate the electoral law of 1850, and restore universal suffrage |
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Innocuous |
not harmful or offensive. |
"it was an innocuous question" |
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Perspicacity |
The ability to understand things quickly and make accurate judgements; shrewdness |
He had come to look on her perspicacity in this matter as a sort of second sight. |
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Obsequiousness |
characterized by or showing servile obedience and excessive eagerness to please; |
an obsequious bow |
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Effrontery |
shameless boldness; insolence |
"one juror had the effrontery to challenge the coroner's decision" |
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Extolled |
praise enthusiastically |
he extolled the virtues of the Russian peoples" |
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Regaled |
entertain or amuse (someone) with talk |
"he regaled her with a colorful account of that afternoon's meeting" |
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Enervated |
to feel drained of energy or vitality |
a lifetime of working in dreary jobs had enervated his very soul |
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Lugubrious |
mournful, dismal, or gloomy |
lugubrious songs of lost love. |
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Piquant |
having a pleasantly sharp taste |
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Censure |
express severe disapproval of |
The country faces international censure for its alleged involvement in the assassination. |
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Spoliation |
the action of taking goods or property from somewhere by illegal or unethical means |
"the spoliation of the Church" |
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Depredation |
an act of attacking or plundering |
"protecting grain from the depredations of rats and mice" |
