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25 Cards in this Set
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disingenuous
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not naive; sophisticated
quite a disgenuous young man |
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disinterested
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unprejudiced; not influenced by personal motivation
bankers must give disinterested advice |
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disparage
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belittle
she disparaged her little brother's unaccurate self-portrait |
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disparate
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different; unrelated
disparate notions of love and marriage |
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dissemble
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disguise; pretend
i'm being honest and have no need to dissemble the truth |
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dissolution
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looseness in morals
he led a sinful life of dissolution |
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distend
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expand; swell out
the veins distend on his arm |
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divest
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strip, deprive
he was divested of his power |
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dogmatic
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opinionated; arbitrary; doctrinal
he gives an opinion without trying to be dogmatic |
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ebullient
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showing excitement; overflowing with enthusiasm
in an ebullient mood |
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efficacy
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power to produce desired result
the efficacy of the drug |
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effrontery
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shameless boldness
she had the effrontery to insult the guest |
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elegy
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poem or song expressing sadness
DIRGE he wrote an elegy for his late father |
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fatuous
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foolish; inane
andy asks fatuous questions |
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felicitous
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apt; suitably expressed; well chosen
his nickname was particularly felicitous |
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fervor
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glowing ardor; intensity of feeling; passion
he tackled studying with fervor FEVER |
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flag
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droop; grow feeble
the team's spirits flagged |
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fledgling
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inexperienced
the fledgeling poets struggled with their workd |
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gouge
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overprice
gouge the public with high prices |
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grandiloquent
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pompous; bombastic
the politician sounded grandiloquent |
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guileless
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without deceit;
he is simple, naive, and guileless |
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iconoclastic
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attacking cherished traditions
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immutable
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unchangeable
nothing is immutable |
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impassive
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without emotion; stoical
his face was impassive |
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imperturbable
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calm; placid; unable to be upset
an imperturbable tranquility |
