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51 Cards in this Set
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Alloy (v) |
to commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior. ("unalloyed" means pure) |
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Appropriate (v) |
to take for one's own use; to confiscate |
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Arrest, arresting (v/adj) |
to suspend; to engage; holding one's attention: as in arrested adolescence, an arresting portrait |
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August (adj) |
majestic, venerable |
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Bent (n) |
leaning, inclination, proclivity, tendency |
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Broach (v) |
to bring up; to announce; to begin to talk about |
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Brook (v) |
to tolerate; to endure; to countenance |
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Cardinal (adj) |
major, and in cardinal sin |
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Chauvinist (n) |
a blindly devoted patriot |
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Color (v) |
to change as if by dyeing, i.e., to distort, gloss, or affect (usually the first) |
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Consequential (adj) |
pompous, self-important (primary definitions are: logically following; important) |
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Damp (v) |
to diminish the intensity or check the vibration of a sound |
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Die (n) |
a tool used for shaping, as in a tool-and-die shop |
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Essay (v) |
to test or try; to attempt; to experiment |
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Exact (v) |
to demand; to call for; to require; to take |
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Fell (v) |
to cause to fall by striking |
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Fell (adj) |
inhumanly cruel |
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Flag (v) |
to sag or droop; to become spiritless; to decline |
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Flip (adj) |
sarcastic, impertinent, as in flippant: a flip remark |
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Ford (v) |
to wade across the shallow part of a river or stream |
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Grouse (v) |
to complain or grumble |
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Guy (n) |
a rope, cord, or cable attached to something as a brace or guide; to steady or reinforce using a guy: think "guide." (verb: guyed, guying) |
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Intimate (v) |
to imply, suggest, or insinuate |
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List (v) |
to tilt or lean to one side |
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Lumber (v) |
to move heavily and clumsily |
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Meet (adj) |
fitting proper |
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Milk (v) |
to exploit; to squeeze every last ounce of |
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Mince (verb) |
to pronounce or speak affectedly; to euphemize, to speak too carefully. Also, to take tiny steps; to tiptoe |
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Nice (adj) |
exacting, fastidious, extremely precise |
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Occult (adj) |
hidden concealed, beyond comprehension |
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Pedestrian (adj) |
commonplace, trite, unremarkable, quotidian |
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Pied (adj) |
multicolored, usually in blotches |
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Pine (v) |
to lose vigor (as through grief); to yearn |
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Plastic (adj) |
moldable, pliable, not rigid |
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Pluck (n) |
courage, spunk, fortitude |
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Prize (v) |
to pry, to press or force with a lever; something taken by force, spoils |
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Rail (v) |
to complain about bitterly |
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Rent (v) |
torn (past tense of "rend"); an opening or tear caused by such |
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Quail (v) |
to lose courage; to turn frightened |
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Qualify (v) |
to limit |
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Sap (v) |
to enervate or weaken the vitality of |
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Sap (n) |
a fool or nitwit |
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Scurvy (adj) |
contemptible, despicable |
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Singular (adj) |
exceptional, unusual, odd |
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Stand (n) |
a group of trees |
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Steep (v) |
to saturate or completely soak, as in to let a tea bag steep |
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Strut (n) |
the supporting structural cross-part of a wing |
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Table (v) |
to remove (as a parliamentary motion) from consideration |
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Tender (v) |
to proffer or offer |
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Waffle (v) |
to equivocate; to change one's position |
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Wag (n) |
wit, joker |
