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30 Cards in this Set
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impute |
to attribute or ascribe |
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adamantine |
unyielding in opinion or attitude |
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frangible |
easily broken, breakable |
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tensile |
capable of being stretched out, having to do with tension |
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primordial |
elementary, at the beginning stages |
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modish |
stylish |
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refractory |
stubbornly disobiedient |
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inculcate |
to teach persistantly and earnestly, to cause someone to accept an idea or feeling |
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actuate |
to put or incite into action |
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ineluctable |
unavoidable |
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inveigh |
to protest strongly or attack with words |
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levy |
to seize property by judicial order |
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extol |
to praise highly |
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pharmacopoeia |
a stock of drugs |
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assiduity |
diligence |
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soporific |
causing sleep |
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dispassionate |
impartial, free from passion |
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redound |
to contribute greatly to |
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macerate |
to cause to grow thin |
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peripatetic |
walking or traveling about, itinerant |
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ineffable |
inexpressable |
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supervening |
to happen as something extra, to ensue |
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abut |
to be adjacent |
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accretion |
to grow in size, an addition |
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bedizen |
to dress or adorn in a gaudy manner |
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turbid |
opaque, confused |
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turgid |
swollen, inflated, overblown |
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apprise |
advise, inform |
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turpitude |
wickedness |
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sordid |
morally ignoble, dirty or filthy |
