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40 Cards in this Set
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Adulation |
Excessive praise; intense adoration |
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Ascetic |
One who practices rigid self-denial as an act of religious devotion. |
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Avarice |
Greed, especially wealth |
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Bucolic |
Rustic or pastoral |
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Chary |
Wary, cautious, sparing |
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Complaisance |
The willingness to comply with the wishes of others. |
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Contentious |
Argumentative, quarrelsome |
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Culpable |
Deserving blame. |
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Dearth |
Smallness of quantity or number. |
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Didactic |
Intended to teach or instruct. |
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Discretion |
Cautious reserve in speech; ability to make responsible decisions. |
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Disinterested |
Free of bias or self-interest; impartial. |
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Emollient |
Soothing, esp. to the skin; making less harsh. |
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Empirical |
Based on observation or experiment. |
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Facetious |
Playful; humorous |
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Fallacy |
An invalid or incorrect notion; a mistaken belief |
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Harangue |
To deliver a pompous speech or tirade. |
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Heretical |
Violating accepted dogma or convention. |
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Incipient |
Beginning to come into being or to become apparent. |
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Inert |
Not moving; lethargic; sluggish |
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Inveigle |
To obtain by deception or flattery. |
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Morose |
Sad; sullen; melancholy |
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Odious |
Evoking intense aversion or dislike. |
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Oscillation |
The act or state of swinging back and forth with a steady, uninterrupted rhythm. |
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Penurious |
Penny-pinching; excessively thifty, ungenerous |
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Pernicious |
Extremely harmful; potentially casuing death. |
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Peruse |
To examine with great care. |
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Precursor |
One that precedes and indicates or announces another. |
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Preen |
To dress up; to primp; to groom oneself with elaborate care. |
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Prodigious |
Abundant in size or force. |
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Prolific |
Producing large volumes or amounts. |
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Quaff |
To drink deeply |
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Redoutable |
Awe-inspiring; worthy of honor. |
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Sanction |
Authoritative permission or approval; a penalty intended to enforce compliance. |
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Satire |
A literary work that ridicules or criticizes a human vice through humor. |
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Squalid |
Sordid; wretched and dorty as from neglect. |
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Stoic |
Indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain. |
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Ubiquitous |
Existing everywhere at the same time; constantly encountered. |
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Urbane |
Sophisticated; refined; elegant |
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Vilify |
To defame; to characterize harshly |
