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43 Cards in this Set
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vestige
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smallest trace; relic
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veto
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right to refuse to admit/approve
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vicissitude
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1. change in circumstances/fortune
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vignette
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brief descriptive incident or scene
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vilify
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utter slander, defame
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vim
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robust energy and enthusiam
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vindicate
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free from blame
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visceral
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felt in, deep (visceral conviction), not intellectual, dealing with crude emotions; intuition
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viscid
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glutinous or sticky consistency
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vista
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pleasing view; mental view of imagined future
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vitiate
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impair, spoil quality or efficiency of
the comic impact is vitiated by obvious haste |
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vitrify
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concert into glassy substance by heat and fusion
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vitriolic
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bitterly scathing, caustic
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vituperate
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abuse or censure severely, berate
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vociferous
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vehement insistent outcry
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volition
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free will, act of making a choice or decision
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voluble
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glib, fluent
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voracious
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insatiable, edacious, gluttonous, rapacious, ravenous
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votary
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a monk, nun, devotee, follower
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waffle
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talk/write foolishly, blather
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waft
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move gently through air
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wag
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person who makeds facetious jokes
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warmonger
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one who urges or attempts to stir up war
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watershed
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event marking a turning point in state of affairs
2. area or ridge of land that separates waters flowing to different rivers, basins, or seas |
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wax
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increase in phase of intensity, become larger or stronger
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waylay
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wait for attack from ambush
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welter
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chaotic mass or jumble
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wheedle
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influence or entice by soft words or flattery; coax, banter, blandish,
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whet
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sharpen blade of, excite or stimulate
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windbag
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exhaustively talkative person
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windy
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bombastic
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bombastic
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high-sounding language with little meaning
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winnow
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1. blow air to remove chaff
2. examine in order to identigy most valuable elements 3. blowing |
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winsome
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pleasing and engaging from childlike charm and innocence; sweet, dulcet, engaging
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wistful
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having a showing feeling f vague or regretful longing; nostalgic, yearning, longing, plaintive, regretful, rueful
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wizen
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becom dry, shrunken, and wrinkled; wither, shrivel, welter, wilt
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worldly
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of this world rather than spirtual
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wrangler
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ranch hand who takes care of the saddle horses
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wrought
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beaten out or shaped by hammering, made or fashioned
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wry
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1. using dry, mocking humor
2. twist face in disgust, disappointment 3. bending or twisted to one side |
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yoke
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couple
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yokel
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naive or gullible inhabitant of rural area
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zenith
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highest point reached in heavens
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