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51 Cards in this Set
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other meanings: Alloy verb |
a commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior a part made of aluminum alloy |
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other meanings: appropriate verb |
to take for one's own use; to confinscate The term “bad” has been appropriated by teenagers as a synonym for “good.” |
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other meanings: arrest, arresting verb adj |
to suspend; to engage; holding one's atten The drugs can't arrest the disease's progress, but they can slow it down considerably. |
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other meanings: august adj |
majestic, venerable The family claims an august lineage. |
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other meanings:Bent noun |
leaning, inclination, proclivity, tendency the drug dealer knew which of the cops were ben |
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other meanings: broach verb |
to bring up; to announce; to begin to talk about I am going to need to broach a very difficult subject when i see keith next |
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other meanings: Brook verb |
to tolerate; to endure; to countenance I will not brook insults from my own employees. |
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other meanings: Cardinal adj |
major, as in cardinal sin |
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other meanings: chauvinist noun |
a blindly devoted patriot their ingrained chauvinism has blinded them to their country's faults |
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other meanings: color verb |
to change as if by dyeing, i.e., to distort, gloss, or affect |
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other meanings: consequential adj |
pompous, self-important He finds himself so consequential to the cause |
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other meanings: Damp verb |
to diminish the intensity or check the vibration of a sound He damped the speakers so that they projected through the theater |
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other meanings: Die noun |
a tool used for shaping, as in a tool-and-die shop |
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other meanings: Essay verb |
to test or try; to attempt; to experiment he had been in gymnastics for some time before he even considered essaying that move |
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other meanings: Exact verb |
to demand; to call for; to require; to take He exacted there attention |
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other meanings: fell verb |
to cause to fall by striking He fell the tree |
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other meanings: fell adj |
inhumanly cruel Captain Cook died in a scuffle with some fell natives of the Hawaiian Islands |
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other meanings: flag verb |
to sag or droop; to become spiritless; to decline I began to flag in my faith |
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other meanings: Flip adj |
sarcastic, impertinent, as in flippant, a flip remark |
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other meanings: ford verb |
to wade across the shallow part of a river or stream the truck tried to ford the creek |
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other meanings: Grouse verb |
to complain or grumble He made a grouse remark |
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other meanings: Guy noun |
a rope, cord, or cable attached to something as a brace or guide; to steady or reinforce using a guy |
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other meanings: intimate verb |
to imply, suggest, or insinuate he intimated there relationship |
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other meanings: list verb |
to tilt or lean to one side the corn stood listless after the storm |
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other meanings: lumber verb |
to move heavily and clumsily he lumbered to and from his classes |
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other meanings: Meet adj |
fitting, proper in this case, splitting the winnings of the contested lottery ticket seems like a meet solution |
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other meanings: Milk verb |
to exploit; to squeeze every last ounce of my sisters think that i am milking them for everything that she has |
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other meanings: Mince verb |
to pronounce or speak affectedly; to emphasize, to speak too carefully. also, to take tiny steps; to tiptoe he minced his sentences |
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other meanings: nice adj |
exacting, fastidious, extremely precise the tailoring was very nice |
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other meanings: occult adj |
hidden, concealed, beyond comprehension He began to believe he had occult powers |
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other meanings: Pedestrian adj |
commonplace, trite, unremarkable pedestrian concerns like paying the bills and getting the kids to school on time |
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other meanings: pied adj |
multicolored, usually in blotches although the mother's was pure black, the foal's coat was pied |
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other meanings: pine verb |
to lose vigor (through grief) to yearn she pined for her lost love |
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other meanings: Plastic adj |
moldable, pliable, not rigid Silly Putty is famous for being very plastic |
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other meanings: pluck noun |
courage, spunk fortitude She showed pluck in getting up on stage. |
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other meanings: prize verb |
to pry, to press or force with a lever; something taken by force, spoils The pirate prizes often |
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other meanings: rail verb |
to complain about bitterly She is on the rail about this topic |
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other meanings: rent verb |
torn; an opening or tear caused by such |
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other meanings: Quail verb |
to lose courage; to turn frightened He quailed at the thought of seeing her again. |
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other meanings: Qualify verb |
to limit They qualified how much food people could take |
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other meanings: Sap verb |
to enervate or weaken the vitality of |
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other meanings: sap Noun |
to fool or nitwit |
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other meanings: scurvy |
contemptible, despicable |
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other meanings: singular |
exceptional, unusual, odd |
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other meanings: Stand |
a group of trees |
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other meanings: steep |
to saturate or completely soak, tea bags |
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other meanings: Strut |
the supporting structural cross- part of a wing |
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other meanings: table |
to remove from consideration (parliamentary motion) |
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other meanings: tender |
to proffer or offer |
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other meanings: Waffle |
to equivocate; to change one's position |
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other meanings: Wag |
wit, joker |
