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30 Cards in this Set
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Erudite |
Having or showing great knowledge or learning |
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Cavil |
Make petty or unnecessary objections |
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Stipple |
To engrave using small dots |
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Profundity |
Deep insight; great depth of knowledge or thought |
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Pontifical |
Relating to a pope; pretentious; pompousq |
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Dogmatic |
Inclined to lay down principles as incontrivertibly true |
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Pretentious |
Attempting to impress by affecting greater talent, importance, etc... than is actually possessed |
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Bilk |
To cheat; to swindle; to haggle unscrupulously |
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Profligate |
Recklessly extravagant or wasteful in the use of resources |
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Prevaricate |
To avoid telling the truth by not directly answering the question |
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Felicity |
intense happiness; the ability to find appropriate expression for one's thoughts |
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Impunity |
Exemption from punishment or freedom from the injurious consequences of an action |
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Improvident |
Not foreseeing or providing for the future |
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Untenable |
Not able to be maintained or defended against attack or objection |
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Mercurial |
subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind |
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Ornery |
Bad tempered and combative; stubborn |
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Voluminous |
Occupying or containing much space; large in volume, in particular |
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Taut |
1. Stretched or pulled tight 2. Concise and controlled |
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Engender |
cause or give rise to |
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Duplicitous |
Deceitful |
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Balmy |
Pleasantly warm |
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Contiguous |
sharing a common border; touching; next to each other in sequence |
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Inimical |
tending to obstruct or harm; unfriendly; hostile |
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Ornerous |
Requiring an amount of effort and difficulty that is oppressively burdensome |
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Obsequious |
Too eager to help or obey someone important |
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Vexation |
the state of being annoyed, frustrated, or worried |
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Hegemony |
leadership or dominance, especially by one country or social group over others |
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Probity |
the quality of having strong strong moral principles; honesty and decency |
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Inchoate |
just begun and not fully formed or developed; rudimentary |
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Hackneyed |
lacking significance through having been overused; unoriginal and trite |
