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31 Cards in this Set
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Parody
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n.a humorous or satirical of a serious piece of literature or writing
v. to imitate for purpose of ridicule |
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Noxious
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adj. injurious to health or physical well-being
adj. morally harmful or corrupting |
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Exuberant
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adj. effusively enthusiastic, abundant, profuse in growth
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Iginominious
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adj. marked by or attended with discreditable, humiliating, contemptible
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Sagacious
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adj. a keen practical sense, shrewd or acute mental discernment
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Prescient
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possesion of prescience: having the knowledge of things prior to their existence or occurence or foresight
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Dichotomy
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v. the division into two parts either exclusive, opposed or contradictory
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Regale
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v. to entertain with; to feast
n. a sumptuous feast; or choice food or drink |
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Evince
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v. to make evident or manifest; prove; or reveal the possession of
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Obviate
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v. to anticipate and prevent; render unnecessary; eliminate by effective measures
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Aggrandize
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v. widen in scope; increase in intensity; to make great(er) in power or position or wealth
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Belie
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v.to show to be false or contradict; act unworthily according to the standards of; misrepresent
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Mendacious
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adj. telling lies: habitually dishonest or untrue
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Truculent
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adj. brutually harsh; belligerent; fierce; aggressively hostile
ant. amiable |
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Castigate
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v. critize or reprimand severly; punish ir order to correct
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Tepid
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adj. moderately warm; characterized by a lack of force or enthusiasm; apathetic
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Conscientious
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adj. scrupulous; meticulous; controlled by or done according to conscience; thorough and assiduous
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Cogent
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adj. to the point; believable by virtue of forcible, clear or incisive presentation; pertinent
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Rectitude
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n. rightness of principle; moral virtue; integrity; probity
ant. dishonesty |
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Alacrity
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n. cheerful readiness; briskness; fervor; speed
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Peripatetic
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adj. traveling about or walking
n. a person who walks |
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Palliative
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adj. serving/ tending to palliate; relieving or soothing the symptoms of a disease or disorder without effecting a cure
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Veracious
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adj. habitually speaking the truth, characterized by truthfulness; accurate or honest in content, precise
ant. mendacious |
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Elegy
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adj. mournful or sad
n. a plaintaive poem composed in elegiac meter |
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Noisome
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adj. offensive or disgusting; harmful or injurious to health
syn. fetid, putrid, mephitic |
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Malinger
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v. pretending an illness to avoid work/ duty
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Soporific
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adj. causing or inducing sleep
n. something that causes sleep |
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Precipitous
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adj. steep; resembling a precipice
ant. flat or level |
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Precursor
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n. person or thing that precedes a predecessor; something(one) announcing something coming
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Frenetic
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adj. wildly excited or frantic
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Miser
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n. a person living in horrid circumstances in order to save or hoard money, avaricious
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