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37 Cards in this Set
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1) Commensurate |
To be in proportion or to correspond in degree or amount |
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2) Amenable |
To persuade |
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3. Extant |
Still in existence (document) |
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4) Disinterested |
Unbiased or neutral |
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5) Abberation |
A deviation from what is expected or what is normal |
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6) Demur |
To object or show reluctance |
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7) Innocuous |
Harmless or to not produce ill effect |
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8) Acrimony |
Bitterness and ill will |
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9) Galvanize |
To excite or to inspire (someone) into action |
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10) Upbraid |
To reproach or to scold |
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11) Venerate |
To respect deeply |
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12) Prodigal |
Rashly or wastefully extravagant |
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13) Vindicate |
To clear of accusations, suspicion, blame, or doubt with supporting arguments or proof |
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14) Enervate |
To sap energy from |
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15) Ambivalent |
Mixed or conflicted feelings about something |
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16) Laconic |
(Describing a person, speech, or style of writing) using very few words |
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17) Anomalous |
Not normal |
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18) Parochial |
Narrowly restricted in scope or outlook |
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19) Profligate |
Spending resources recklessly or wastfully |
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20) Undermine |
To weaken (usually paired with abstract term) |
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21) Incisive |
Having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions |
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22) Dictatorial |
expected unquestioning obedience, characteristic of an absolute ruler |
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Intimate |
To suggest something subtly |
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Involved |
complicated and difficult to comprehend |
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Qualify |
to make less severe; to limit (a statement) |
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Castigate |
To reprimand harshly |
"Drill sergeants often castigate new recruits when at fault that some of them had a breakdown." |
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Veracious |
Truthful |
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Belie |
to give a false representation to; misrepresent |
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Prescience |
the power to foresee the future |
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Recondite |
difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge |
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Prevaricate |
verb: to speak in an evasive way |
Politicians all seem to give similar soeeches, they all seem to prevaricate |
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Amorphous |
adjective: shapeless |
"Tom's study plan was very random, amorphous" |
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Mercurial |
adjective: (of a person) prone to unexpected and unpredictable changes in mood |
"Tina's moods were mercurial, one would never know when she'd throw a fit and fire someone" |
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Venality |
noun: the condition of being susceptible to bribes or corruption |
"Some government officials are not all about justice, they suffer from venality" |
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Posterity |
All future generations; descendants |
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Perversion |
The alteration of something from its original course, meaning, or state to a distortion or corruption of what was first intended |
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Contest |
Engage in competition; oppose (an action, decision, or theory) as mistaken or wrong |
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