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80 Cards in this Set

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Nadir

Lowest point

Naive

Innocent

Nebulous

Unclear or vague or cloudy

Nefarious

Extremely wicked, criminal

Nimble

Agile


Showing mental quickness ,moving or acting quickly

Noisome

Smelling bad

Noxious

Harmful

Obdurate

Stubborn

Obfuscate

Confuse or bewilder OR mystify

Objurgate

Scold or rebuke

Obliterate

To get rid of

Obsequious

Gain favor by flattery


Toadies, ingratiating, fawning

Obsolete

Outdated

Obstreperous

Noisy, unruly, boisterous

Obtrude

To put forward unasked and unwanted


Unwelcoming intrusiveness

Obtuse

Slow to learn

Obviate

Get rid of or destroy

Occlude

Stop, close up or obstruct

Officious

Meddlesome

Ominous

Menacing, threatening, feeling that something bad will happen

Opportune

Appropriate, Felicitous, right or fit

Opprobium

To criticize or disgrace OR shame someone

Orotund

Resonant voice; magniloquent


Pompous and pretentious

Oscillate

Swing or move irregularly

Ostensible

Apparently

Ostentatious

Intended to attract attention

Override

Annul or overrule

Paean

A song of praise

Palpable

Can be perceived


Can be felt

Pandemonium

A chaotic situation

Paradigm

An example or model

Parity

In par with


State of evenness

Parochial

Narrow minded

Parsimonious

Miser or stingy

Partisan

Fighter; military supporter

Paucity

Lack of something

Pedantic

Bookish

Pedestrian

Lacking imagination

Peevish

Easily annoyed

Penitent

Regretful or showing sorrow and guilt

Penury

Poor

Perfidious

Treacherous

Perennial

Everlasting

Pernicious

Harmful and deadly

Perspicacious

Discerning, Shrewdness, acumen, astuteness

Perspicuous

Limpid, clear,lucid,pellucid

Perturb

Disturb

Pinnacle

Highest point

Pithy

Short and concise

Placate

Appease or calm someone down

Platitude

Trite

Portend

Ominously prophetic


Warn as something bad


Presage

Potentate

Posessor of power or wealth

Pragmatic

Practical

Precarious

Filled with risk or danger

Precipitate

Hasty, impulsive, done without much thought

Preclude

Prevent

Precocious

Unusually developed and advanced

Precursor

A person who comes before another of same kind

Presage

A sign of warning

Prevaricate

Lie, talk in evasive manner

Procrastinate

To delay

Probity

Integrity and honesty

Profundity

Great depth


Not superficial

Prolix

Boring verbosity

Propensity

Tendency to

Propitiate

Appease or placate

Prosaic

Dull and lacking imagination

Proscribe

To prohibit


To go against or not support

Proselytize

To convert (religion)

Protract

Prolong

Proviso

Condition attached to an agreement

Prudent

Wise

Puerile

Childish

Pugnacious

Eager to fight


Belligerent, bellicose

Puissant

Powerful

Punctillous

Overly concerned with details

Pusillanimous

Lacking courage


Cravenness


Spineless

Qualm

Uneasiness about something

Quizzical

Puzzled