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51 Cards in this Set
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Alloy (verb)
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to commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior; unalloyed means pure
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Adulterate
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Appropriate (verb)
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to take for one's own use; to confiscate
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Arrest, arresting
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to suspend; to engage; holding one's attention: as in arrested adolescence, an arresting portrait
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August (adj.)
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majestic, venerable
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Bent (noun)
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leaning, inclination, proclivity, tendency
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Broach (verb)
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to bring up; to announce; to begin to talk about
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Brook (verb)
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to tolerate; to endure; to countenace
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Cardinal (adj.)
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major, as in cardinal sin
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Chauvinist (noun)
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a blindly devoted patriot
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Color (verb)
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to change as if by dyeing, i.e., to distort, gloss, or affect (usually the first)
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Consequential (adj.)
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pompous, self-important (primary definitions are logically following; important)
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Damp (verb)
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to diminish the intensity or check the vibration of a sound
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Die (noun)
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a tool used for shaping, as in a tool-and-die shop
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Essay (verb)
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to test or try; to attempt; to experiment
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Exact (verb)
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to demand; to call for; to require; to take
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Fell (verb)
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to cause to fall by striking
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Fell (adj.)
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inhumanely cruel
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Flag (verb)
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to sag or droop; to become spiritless; to decline
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Flip (adj.)
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sarcastic, impertinent, as in flippant: a flip remark
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Ford (verb)
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to wade across the shallow part of a river or stream
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Grouse (verb)
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to complain or grumble
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Guy (noun)
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a rope, cord, or cable attached to something as a brace or guide; to steady or reinforce using a guy: think guide.
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Intimate (verb)
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to imply, suggest, or insinuate
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List (verb)
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to tilt or lean to one side
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Lumber (verb)
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to move heavily and clumsily
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Meer (adj.)
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fitting, proper
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Milk (verb)
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to exploit; to squeeze every last ounce of
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Mince (verb)
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to pronounce or speak affectedly; to euphemize to speak too carefully. Also, to take tiny steps; to tiptoe
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Nice (adj.)
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exacting, fastidious, extremely precise
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Obtain (adj.)
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to be established, accepted, or customary
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Occult (adj.)
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hidden, concealed, beyond comprehension
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Pedestrian (adj.)
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commonplace, trite, unremarkable, quotidian
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Quotidian
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Pied (adj.)
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multicolored, usually in blotches
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Pine (verb)
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to lose vigor (as through grief); to yearn
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Plastic (adj.)
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moldable, pliable, not rigid
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Pluck (noun)
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courage, spunk, fortitude
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Prize (verb)
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to pry, to press or force with a lever; something taken by force, spoils
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Rail (verb)
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to complain about bitterly
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Rent (verb)
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torn (past tense of rend); an opening or tear caused by such
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Quail (verb)
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to lose courage; to turn frightened
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Qualify (verb)
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to limit
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Sap (verb)
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to enervate or weaken the vitality of
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Enervate
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Scurvy (adj.)
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contemptible, despicable
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Singular (adj.)
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exceptional, unusual, odd
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Stand (noun)
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a group of trees
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Steep (verb)
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to saturate or completely soak, as in to let a tea bag steep
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Strut (noun)
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the supporting structural cross-part of a wing
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Table (verb)
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to remove (as a parliamentary motion) from consideration
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Tender (verb)
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to proffer or offer
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Waffle (verb)
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to equivocate; to change one's position
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Wag (noun)
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wit, joker
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