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78 Cards in this Set
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Abjure |
to renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid |
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adumbrate |
to foreshadow vaguely or intimate; to suggest or outline sketchily; to obscure or overshadow |
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Anathema |
a solemn or eccl |
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anodyne |
soothing; something that assuages or allays pain or comforts |
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apogee |
farthest or highest point; culmination, zenith |
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apostate |
one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions |
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apotheosis |
deification; glorification to godliness; an exalted example; a model of excellence or perfection |
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Asperity |
severity, rigor, roughness, harshness; acrimony, irritability |
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asseverate |
to aver, allege, or assert |
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assiduous |
diligent, hardworking, sedulous |
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augury |
omen, portent |
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bellicose |
belligerent, pugnacious, warlike |
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calumniate calumny |
to slander, to make false accusation |
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captious |
disposed to point out trivial faults; calculated to confuse or entrap in argument |
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Cavil |
to find fault without good reason |
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celerity |
speed, alacrity, think accelerate |
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chimera |
an illusion; originally, an imaginary fire-breathing she-monster |
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contumacious |
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debacle |
rout, fiasco, complete failure |
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denouement |
an outcome or solution; the unraveling or a plot |
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descry |
to discriminate or discern |
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desuetude |
disuse |
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desultory |
random; aimless; marked by a lack of plan or purpose
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diaphanous |
transparent, gauzy |
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diffident |
reserved, shy, unassuming; lacking in self-confidence |
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dirge |
a song of grief or lamentation |
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encomium |
glowing and enthusiastic praise; panegyric, tribute, eulogy |
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eschew |
to shun or avoid |
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excoriate |
to censure scathingly, to upbraid |
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execrate |
to denounce, to feel loathing for, to curse, to declare to be evil |
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exegesis |
critical examination, explication |
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expiate |
to atone or make amends for |
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extirpate |
to destroy, to exterminate, to cut out, to exscind |
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fatuous |
silly, inanely foolish |
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fractious |
quarrelsome, rebellious, unruly, refractory, irritable |
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gainsay |
to deny, to dispute, to contradict, to oppose |
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heterodox |
unorthodox, heretical, iconoclastic |
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imbroglio |
difficult or embarrassing situation |
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indefatigable |
not easil |
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ineluctable |
certain, inevitable |
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inimitable |
one of a kind, peerless |
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insouciant |
unconcerned, carefree heedless |
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inveterate |
deep-rooted, ingrained, habitual |
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jejune |
vapid, uninteresting, nugatory; childish, immature, puerile |
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lubricious |
lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery |
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mendicant |
a beggar, supplicant |
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meretricious |
cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy, showy; attracting by faluse show |
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minatory |
menacing, threatening |
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nadir |
low point, perigee |
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nonplussed |
baffled, bewildered, at a loss for what to do or think |
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obstreperous |
noisily and stubbornly defiant, aggressively boisterous |
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ossified |
tending to become more rigid, conventional, sterile, and reactionary with age; literally, turned into bone |
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palliate |
to make something seem less serious, to gloss over, to make less severe or intense |
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panegyric |
formal praise, eulogy, encomium |
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parsimonious |
cheap, miserly |
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pellucid |
transparent, easy to understand, limpid |
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peroration |
the concluding part of a speech; flowery, rhetorical speech |
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plangent |
pounding, thundering, resounding |
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prolix |
long-winded, verbouse |
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propitiate |
to appease; to conciliate |
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puerile |
childish, immature, |
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puissance |
power, strength |
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pusillanimous |
cowarldy, craven |
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remonstrate |
to protest, to object |
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sagacious |
having sound judgment; perceptive, wise; like a sage |
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salacious |
lustful, lascivious, bawdy |
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salutary |
remedial, wholesome, causing improvement |
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sanguine |
cheerful, confident, optimistic |
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saturnine |
gloomy, dark, sullen, morose |
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sententious |
aphoristic or moralistic; epigrammatic; tending to |
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stentorian |
extrememly load and powerful |
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stygian |
gloomy, dark |
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sycophant |
toady, servile, self-seeking flatterer; parasite |
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tendentious |
biased; showing marked tendencies |
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timorous |
timid, fearful, diffident |
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tyro |
novice, greenhorn, ranked amateur |
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vitiate |
to corrupt, to debase, to spoil, to make ineffective |
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voluble |
fluent, verbal, having easy use of spoken language |
