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28 Cards in this Set
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Engender
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(noun) to create or procreate; cause, produce or give rise to
Syn: beget, breed, cultivate, develop, excite, generate, incite, originate, propagate |
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Ephemeral
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(adj) very brief in duration, usually only one day; short-lived
Syn: brief, evanescent, fleeting, momentary, passing, short, temporary, transient, transitory, unenduring, vague |
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Erudite
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(adj) characterized by great knowledge; learned; scholarly
Syn: cultured, educated, intelligent, studious, wise |
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Extol/Laud
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(verb) to praise (highly)
Syn: applaud, approbate, bless, celebrate, commend, compliment, deify, enhance, enshrine, eulogize, exalt, glorify, magnify, panegyrize, spiritualize, worship |
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Feckless
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(adj) irresponsible; lacking purpose or vitality; ineffective; careless; incompetent; futile; having no sense of responsibility; indifferent; lazy.
Syn: aimless, feeble, meaningless, remiss, slack, unreliable, useless, weak, worthless |
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Feint
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(noun) a false ploy meant to draw attention away from the real purpose
Syn: artifice, bait, blind, bluff, deceit, dodge, expedient, gambit, hoax, mask, ploy, pretense, ruse, stall, stratagem, trick, wile |
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Fervent
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(adj) 1. passionate; having or showing great warmth or intensity of spirit, feeling, enthusiasm, etc.; ardent: 2. hot; burning; glowing.
Syn: animated, ardent, blazing, burning, eager, emotional, enthusiastic, fierce, fiery, glowing, hot, impetuous, intense, passionate, raging, vehement, warm, zealous |
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Fortuitous
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(adj) 1. happening by chance; 2. lucky; fortunate
Syn: accidental, casual, chance, contingent, fluky, incidental, lucky, random, serendipitous, unplanned |
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Garrulous/Loquacious
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(adj) extremely talkative
Syn: babbling, gabby, gossipy, rambling, talky, voluble, wordy |
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Gullible
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(adj) easily tricked, deceived, cheated, or gulled
Syn: credulous, green, innocent, naive, sucker, trusting, unsuspecting |
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Iconoclast
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(noun) one who seeks to overthrow tradition or authority (based on error or superstition); one who attacks popular beliefs;
a breaker or destroyer of images, esp. those set up for religious veneration. Syn: dissenter,individualist, nonconformist, radical, rebel, revolutionary |
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Imperturbable
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(adj) incapable of being upset or agitated; not easily excited; calm
Syn: collected, composed, cool, levelheaded, placid, serene, stable, tranquil, unexcitable, unflappable, unruffled |
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Irascible
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(adj) 1. easily angered; irritable; 2. characterized or produced by anger
Syn: belligerent, choleric, fretful, hot-tempered, impatient, irate, ireful, passionate, quick-tempered, snappish, snappy, testy, touchy |
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Laconic
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(adj) using few words; concise
Syn: blunt, brief, compact, condensed, crisp, curt, pithy, pointed, short, succinct, terse |
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Lethargy
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(noun) state of great fatigue;
the quality or state of being drowsy and dull, listless and unenergetic, or indifferent and lazy; apathetic or sluggish inactivity. Syn: dull, inert, lethargic, passive, slow, sluggish, soporific |
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Lucid
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(adj) clearly understandable; completely intelligible or comprehensible; 2. sane; 3. shining or bright. 4. transparent.
Syn: beaming, bright, brilliant, cogent, crystal, evident, luminous, obvious, pellucid, radiant, rational, sensible, shining, translucent, |
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Malleable
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(adj) capable of being shaped; yielding; moldable, adapting;
Syn: ductile, flexible, flexile, flexuous, moldable, plastic, pliable, pliant, supple, workable |
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Zealous/Fervent
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(adj) enthusiastic; passionate; full of, characterized by, or due to zeal; ardently active, devoted, or diligent.
Syn: ardent, keen, mad, rabid, warm |
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Obdurate
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(adj) hardened emotionally; unrepenting; stubborn; inflexible; unmoved by persuasion, pity, or tender feelings; unyielding.
Syn: adamant, callous, cruel, firm, hardhearted, headstrong, immovable, impenitent, inflexible, insensible, intractable, iron, obstinate, persistent, pigheaded, rigid, rough, rugged, unbending, unemotional, unfeeling, unshakable |
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Ostentatious
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(adj) pretentious and boastful; characterized by or given to pretentious or conspicuous show in an attempt to impress others
Syn: chichi, dashing, elaborate, extravagant, flamboyant, flashy, flaunting, gaudy, grandiose, loud, overdone, pompous, pretentious, showy, spectacular, splashy, sporty, swanky |
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Pedantic
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(adj) having a obsessive focus on book-learning and small details; bookish; showing off learning; ostentatious in one's learning;
Syn: academic, bookish, donnish, formalistic, inkhorn, literary, pedantical, scholastic |
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Placate/Mitigate
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(verb) to calm or appease someone who is angry; soothe; calm; pacify; to alleviate
Syn: conciliate, humor, mollify, quiet, tranquilize; abate, allay, assuage, bate, calm, cushion, diminish, ease, lessen, lighten, meliorate, moderate, palliate, quell, reduce, relax, relieve, slake, soften, soothe, sweeten, temper, tone |
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Prevaricate
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(verb) to equivocate; to stray from the truth; to speak falsely or misleadingly; deliberately misstate or create an incorrect impression; lie.
Syn: deceive, dodge, equivocate, evade, exaggerate, falsify, fib, lie, mislead, misrepresent, palter |
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Prodigy
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(noun) person with great talent
Syn: genius, marvel, miracle, natural, phenomenon, portent, wizard, wonder |
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Repudiate
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(verb) to reject as untrue; disown; refuse to accept or pay
Syn: deny, disacknowledge, disavow, disclaim, renounce |
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Unequivocal
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(adj) clear and certain; unambiguous; having only one possible meaning or interpretation; absolute; unqualified; not subject to conditions or exceptions.
Syn: categorical, decisive, definite, emphatic, explicit, indisputable, plain, positive, resounding, unambiguous, unmistakable |
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Vacillate
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(verb) to waver in mind or opinion; be indecisive or irresolute
Syn: alternate, blow hot and cold, dither, fluctuate, flutter, hem and haw, hesitate, oscillate, rock, seesaw, shift, stagger, sway, teeter, totter, whiffle, wobble |
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Venerate
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(verb) to regard or treat with reverence (deep respect); revere.
Syn: admire, adore, cherish, honor, prize, regard, value, worship |
