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30 Cards in this Set
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Coda:
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A conclusion or closing part of a statement or of a musical or literary composition
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Deride:
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To ridicule, make fun of
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Alacrity:
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cheerful promptness, eargerness, willingness
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Amalgamate:
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combine, unite in one body, To combine into a unified or integrated whole; unite
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Apathy:
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Lack of caring, indifference
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Apprise:
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Inform, to give notice
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Complaisant:
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To exhibit a desire to please or trying to please, obliging
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Conundrum:
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riddle, difficult problem,paradoxical, insoluble, or difficult problem
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Quixotic:
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Unreachable goals, idealistic without regard to practicality, impracticle
Hint: Antonymn(opposite): pragmatic |
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Default:
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Failure to act, Failure to perform a task or fulfill an obligation
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Restiveness:
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impatience or uneasiness, restless
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Mirth:
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Gladness and gaiety
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Docile:
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Ready and willing to be taught; teachable.
Yielding to supervision, direction |
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Craven:
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Cowardly,abject fear; cowardly.
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Petulance:
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irritable or ill-tempered; peevish
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Decorum:
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Appropriateness of behavior or conduct; propriety, The conventions or requirements of polite behavior
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Pugnacious:
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Combative in nature, belligerent, resort to force or violence
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Perspicacity:
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Acuteness, discernment, or understanding.
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Desiccate:
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Dry up, To make dry, dull, or lifeless.
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Temerity:
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Foolhardy disregard of danger; recklessness
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Suppliant:
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To ask humbly and earnestly; beseeching
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Pithy:
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Precisely meaningful; forceful and brief:
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Delineate:
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To portray, depict, sketch: To depict in words or gestures; describe
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Epigram:
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A short, witty poem expressing a single thought or observation.
A concise, clever, often paradoxical statement. |
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Desultory:
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aimless, haphzard, digressing at random
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Rococo:
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Style of art, especially architecture and decorative art, that originated in France in the early 18th century and is marked by elaborate ornamentation, as with a profusion of scrolls, foliage, and animal forms.
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Welter:
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turmoil, bewildering jumble
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Dirge:
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music play at funeral, A funeral hymn or lament
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Volatile:
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Changeable, explosive
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Abscond:
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To depart secretly and hide
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