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64 Cards in this Set
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Refulgent |
(adj.) shining brightly, radiant, gleaming |
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Dissimulation |
(n) hypocrisy |
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Deleterious |
(adj) injurious to health; harmful |
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Insurmountable |
(adj) incapable of being overcome |
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Fledging |
young and inexperienced |
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Gainsaid |
(v) to deny, dispute, or contradict |
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Equivocate |
(v) to use unclear expressions; to avoid commitment by misleading; using vague language |
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Scapegoating |
blaming unfairly |
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Castigating |
(v) to criticize or reprimand severely; to punish in order to correct |
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Legation |
(n) a diplomatic minister and staff in a foreign mission, the official headquarters of a diplomatic minister |
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Confederation |
a league or alliance |
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Battalion |
an army in battle array |
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Spurious |
not genuine, authentic, or true |
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expurgate |
to amend by removing words, passages deemed offensive or objectionable |
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superfluous |
being more that is sufficient or required; excessiveness |
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imperative |
absolutely necessary or required; unavoidable |
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seminal |
having possibilities of future development |
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discenable |
noticeable |
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formidable |
arousing feelings of awe or admiration because of grandeur, strength, ect. |
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contemporary |
existing, occurring, or living at the same time |
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tenet |
opinion, belief, or principle |
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auditory |
related to the process of hearing |
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abrogate |
an official or legislative anullment or cancelation |
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renounce |
to give up or put aside voluntarily |
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Negate |
denied |
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sultry |
oppressively hot; emitting great heat |
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cloying |
causing or tending to cause disgust or aversion through excess |
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beguile |
to take away from by cheating or deceiving; to charm or divert |
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expedient |
a means to an end; conductive to advantage or interest, as opposed to right |
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craven |
(adj) cowardly |
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disavow |
to disclaim knowledge of, connection with, or responsibility of |
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eschew |
to abstain or keep away from, shun, avoid |
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denounce |
to condemn publicly |
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decorous |
characterized by dignified propriety in conduct, manners, appearance, character, ect. |
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ravel |
to involve, confuse, perplex |
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antithetic |
directly opposed or contrasted, opposite |
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infinitesimal |
exceedingly small; minute |
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mitigate |
to make (a person, one's state of mind disposition, ect.) milder or more gentle; mollify; appease |
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expropriate |
to take (something) from anothers possession for ones own use |
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enervate |
to deprive of force or strength; destroy the vigor of; weaken |
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privation |
(v) the act of depriving, the state of being deprived |
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mediocrity |
mediocre ability, accomplishment, or person inanity: lack of sense, significance, or ideas; silliness |
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carouse |
to engage in a drunken revel |
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extol |
to praise highly |
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infantilize |
to treat or regard as immature |
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venerate |
to regard or treat with reverence |
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indoctrination |
the act of teaching a doctrine, principle, or ideology, especially one with a specific point go view |
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vindicate |
to uphold or justify by argument or evidence; to get revenge for; avenge |
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Desultory |
(adj) lacking in consistency, constancy, or visible order; disconnected, random |
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aggrandizement |
the act or instance of increasing in size or intensity; expansion of power, wealth, rank, or honor |
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kerfuffle |
a fuss, commotion |
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insurgency |
rebellion within a group, as by members against leaders |
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insurrection |
an act or instance of rising in revolt, rebellion, or resistance against civil authority or an established government |
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connotation |
an idea or meaning suggested by a word |
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denotation |
the literal meaning of a word |
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penurious |
(adj) extremely stingy, extremely poor, destitute |
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nitpicking |
to be critical of inconsequential details |
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censorious |
(adj) severly critical; faultfinding; carping |
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parsimonious |
(adj) characterized by or showing parsimony, frugal or stingy |
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disingenuous |
(adj) lacking in frankness, candor, or sincerity, insincere |
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alacrity |
cheerful readiness, promptness, or willingness |
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astuteness |
(adj) of keen penetration or discernment; clever, cunning; ingenious, shrewd |
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perspicacity |
(n) keenness of mental perception and understanding; discernment; penetration |
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erudition |
knowledge acquired by study, research, ect. |
