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35 Cards in this Set
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Nugatory |
Of no value or importance |
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Sartorial |
Relating to tailoring |
sartorial elegance" |
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Tautology |
Repetition |
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Treatise |
Piece of work, piece of writing |
His treatise on Scottish political theory |
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Conscription |
Compulsory enlistment for states service |
Conscription was extended to married men |
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Reparation |
Compensation |
The courts required a convicted offender to make financial reparation to his victim |
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Minutiae |
The small, precise,trivial detail of something |
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Defunct |
Obsolete,non functioning, unusable |
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Platonic |
Non-sexual |
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Internecine |
Destructive to both side in a conflict |
The region's history of savage internecine warfare |
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Argot |
The jargon or slang of particular group |
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Fractious |
Irritable and quarrelsome, grumpy, bad tempered |
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Cantankerous |
Fractious |
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Salacious |
Pornography |
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Foreswear |
Renounce,forgo, abjure, relinquish, giveup |
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Puissance |
Great power, influence or prowess |
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Demotic |
Ordinary language used by ordinary people |
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Complaisant |
Sycophantic |
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Anthropocentric |
Regarding human kind as the most important element of existance |
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Tangential |
Erratic |
Tangential thoughts |
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Precipitate |
Provoke, hasten,accelarate, |
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Expedite |
Hasten, accelarate |
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Partisan |
Supporters, follower, adherent |
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Pellucid |
Transparent |
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Tepid |
Slightly warm, unenthusiastic, apathetic, |
The applause was tepid |
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Approbation |
Approval, acceptance, appreciation |
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Proscribe |
Forbid especially by law |
Strikes remain proscribed in the armed forces |
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Interdict |
An authorative prohibition |
Society will never interdict sex |
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Retracted |
Withdraw, disavow, take back |
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Pergrination |
A journey, especially a long or meandering one |
she kept Aunt Ilsa company on her peregrinations |
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Didactic |
Instructive |
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Sham |
bogus; false |
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Purported |
appear to be or do something, especially falsely |
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Hearsay |
Rumour , gossip |
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Wayward |
Difficult to control or predict because of wilful or perverse behaviour |
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