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39 Cards in this Set
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apprise
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inform
she was apprised of the weather conditions |
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approbation
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approval
she looked for her parents appropation |
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appropriate
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acquire; take possession
the govt appropriated the land |
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artless
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without guile; open and honest
his memoirs have an artless flavor |
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ascetic
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self denial; austere
the monks lead an ascetic life |
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assiduous
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diligent
assiduous labor |
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assuage
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lessen pain; satify hunger; soothe anger
a pain that couldn't be assuaged |
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attenuate
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weaken; make thin
attenuate the signal is to make it smaller |
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austere
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stern; plain
an austere life an austere building |
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aver
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state confidently
i will aver that I will be successful |
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banal
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not original; worn out cliches are banal
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beneficent
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kindly; good doing
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burnish
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polish
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burgeon
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grow forth; send out buds
the plants burgeon |
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cacophonous
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inharmonious; bad sounding
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capricious
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fickle; unpredictable
her capricious personality |
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castigation
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punishment; critisicm
she couldn't bear the castigation |
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chicanery
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trickery; deception
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coda
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concluding section of music piece
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cogent
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convincing
he had cogent reasons for going to Harvard |
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commensurate
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equal in extent
the reward is commensurate with the effort |
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compendium
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brief summary
this paragraph is a compendium of the paper |
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complaisant
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trying to please/oblige
the jester tried to obey the king in a complaisant manner |
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conciliatory
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reconciling; soothing
she was still angry despite his conciliatory words |
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contention
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claim; thesis
it is our contention that bla bla bla |
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contentious
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quarrelsome
the coach was contentious |
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contrite
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penitent
her contrite tears |
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craven
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cowardly
her craven refusal to go into the forest |
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default
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failure to act
lose by default default on a debt |
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denigrate
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blacken
the writer made an attempt to denigrate my character |
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derivative
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unoriginal; obtained from another source
her material was all derivative in nature |
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dessicate
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dry up
dessicate beef/food before making beef jerky |
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desultory
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aimless/haphazard/ digressing at random; casual
she had a desultory interest in her child's welfare |
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diatribe
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bitter scolding/ invective
the lengthy diatribe delivered by his opponent |
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diffidence
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shyness
her diffidence was out of place in the outgoing group |
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diffuse
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wordy; rambling; spread out
diffuse novels are wordy and repetitive |
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dirge
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lament with music
a lone bagpiper played the woeful dirge |
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disabuse
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correct a false impression; undeceive
we tried to disabuse the kids of the nonsense they had been taught |
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discordant
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not harmonious; conflicting
bad sounding bands are discordant |