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50 Cards in this Set
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Arcane |
Mysterious secret |
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Imbue |
Inspire or permeate with |
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Capitulate |
Yeild |
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Impugn |
Question |
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Stigmatized |
Worthy of disgrace or disapproval |
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Obdurate |
Stubborn |
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Flagrant |
Obviously offensive |
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Clandestine |
Secret because illicit |
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Incorrigible |
Fixed in their negative ways |
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Conceit |
Vanity |
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Recourse |
Solution in difficult situation |
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Baneful |
Harmful |
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Noxious |
Harmful |
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Amenable |
Easily persuaded |
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Stolid |
Lifeless |
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Ambivalent |
Mixed feelings |
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Equivocaly |
Easy to understand |
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Officious |
Assertive/ domineering in regards to trivial matters |
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Probity |
Honesty and decency |
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Deluge |
Severe flood |
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taciturn |
Reserved in speech |
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Turgid |
Tediously pompous and bombastic |
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Addlepate |
Confused |
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Enervate |
Exhuaste |
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Enigmatic |
Mysterious |
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Facile |
Ignoring complexities. Superficial |
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Urbane |
(of a person, especially a man) courteous and refined in manner. |
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Hoi-polloi |
The masses |
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Literati |
well-educated people who are interested in literature. |
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Cabal |
a secret political clique or faction. |
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Purported |
appear to be or do something, especially falsely. |
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Poultices |
a soft, moist mass of material, typically consisting of bran, flour, herbs, etc., applied to the body to relieve soreness and inflammation and kept in place with a cloth. |
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Pedagogy |
the method and practice of teaching, especially as an academic subject or theoretical concept. |
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Demagogue |
Political leader whogets support by appealing to popular desires and prejudice |
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Malign |
Evil in nature or effect |
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Tendentious |
expressing or intending to promote a particular cause or point of view, especially a controversial one. |
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Conversant |
familiar with or knowledgeable about something. |
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Modish |
conforming to or following what is currently popular and fashionable. |
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Denigrate |
Criticize unfairly |
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Balkanize |
divide (a region or body) into smaller mutually hostile states or groups. |
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Besmirch |
Damage |
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Defeasible |
open in principle to revision, valid objection, forfeiture, or annulment. |
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Nostrum |
a medicine prepared by an unqualified person, especially one that is not considered effective."a charlatan who sells nostrums"synonyms: patent medicine, quack remedy, potion, elixir, panacea, cure-all, cure for all ills, universal remedy, sovereign remedy, wonder drug, magic bullet; Morea scheme or remedy for bringing about some social or political reform or improvement. |
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Adjuvant |
(of therapy) applied after initial treatment for cancer, especially to suppress secondary tumour formation.noun1.a substance which enhances the body's immune response to an antigen. |
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Fissile |
adjective1.(of an atom or element) able to undergo nuclear fission."a fissile isotope"2.(chiefly of rock) easily split."flat-bedded and very highly fissile shale" |
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Recidivist |
a convicted criminal who reoffends, especially repeatedly. |
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Autodidact |
Self taught person |
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Depredate |
steal from, typically using force; plunder. |
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Neologism |
a newly coined word or expression |
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Antithetical |
directly opposed or contrasted; mutually incompatible.connected with, containing, or using the rhetorical device of antithesis. |