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59 Cards in this Set
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Legerdemain
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A skill used by a magician
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Nod
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A gesture of assent
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Assent
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To express agreement
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Blandishments
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Flattering remarks
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Proponent
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One who agrees with a theory
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Dross
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A waster product of working with metal
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Compendious
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Brief
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Spartan
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Bare and unadorned
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Mendacious
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Apt to lie
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Arcanum
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Characterized by secrecy
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Mendicant
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To depend on charity to live (A mendicant is a beggar)
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Convoke
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To assemble in a group
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Purblind
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Unable to see
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Prevarication
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Lying
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Verity
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Truthfulness
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Canting
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Setting something at an angle
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Febrile
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Having a fever
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Insidious
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Something that spreads harmfully in a subtle or stealthy manner
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Unguent
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An ointment used to soothe or heal
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Dandy
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One who is very elegant in a dress or manners
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Stanch
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To stop the flow
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Abstemious
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Abstains from certain pleasures
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Admonish
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To reprove mildly or warn against something
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Impasse
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A deadlock
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Countenance
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To approve of something
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Mercurial
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Erratic or fickle
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Sedulity
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Blatant attentiveness or concentration
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Culpability
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Responsibility for blame
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Truncate
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To shorten
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Venerate
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To treat with respect
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Abate
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to reduce in amount, degree or severity
ebb, moderate, subside, lapse, relent, wane, let up, slacken |
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Abscond
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To leave secretly
flee, decamp, escape |
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Abstain
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To choose not to do something
forbear, refrain, withhold |
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Abyss
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An extremely deep hole
Asbyssal: pertaining to great depth Abysmal: extremely bad chasm, void |
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Adulterate
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To make impure
Unadulterated: pure Adultery: an illicit relationship; an affair doctor |
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Advocate
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To speak in favor of
Advocacy: active support for back, champion, support |
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Aesthetic
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Concerning the appreciation of beauty
Aestehete: someone unusually sensitive to beauty Aestheticism: concern with beauty artistic, tasteful |
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Aggrandize
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To increase in power, influence, and reputation
Amplify, dignify, ennoble, magnify, wax, apotheosize, elevate, exalt, swell, augment, enlarge, glorify, uplift |
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Alleviate
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To make more bearable
allay, ease, mitigate, assauge, lessen, palliate, comfort, ,lighten, relieve |
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Amalgamate
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To combine; to mix together
Amalgam: a mixture, especially of two metals admix, commingle, fuse, merge, blend, commix, intermingle, mingle, combine, compound, intermix, mix |
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Ambiguous
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doubtful or uncertain; able to be interpreted several ways
Ambiguity: the quality of being ambiguous Cloudy, equivocal, obscure, doubtful, nebulous, unclear, dubious, inderterminate, vague |
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Ameliorate
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To make better; to improve
amend, pacify, better, upgrade, improve |
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Anachronism
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Something out of place in time
archaism, incongruity |
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Analogous
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Similar or alike in some way; equivalent to
Analogy: a similarity between things that are otherwise dissimilar Analogue: something that is similar in some way to something else alike, equivalent, similar, comparable, homogeneous, corresponding, parallel |
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Anomaly
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Deviation from what is normal
Anomalous: deviating from what is normal aberrance, deviance, preternaturalness, aberration, deviation, abnormality, irregularity |
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Antagonize
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To annoy or provoke to anger
Anatagonistic: tending to provoke conflict Antagonist: someone who fights another clash, irritate, provoke, conflict, oppose, vex, incite, pester |
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Antipathy
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Extreme dislike
animosity, aversion, repellence, animus, enmity, antagonism, hostility |
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Apathy
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Lack of interest or emotion
coolness, disinterest, disregard, impassivity, lassitude, phlegm, unresponsiveness, indifference, lethargy, stolidity, insensibility, listlessness, unconcern |
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Arbitrate
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To judge a dispute between two opposing parties
arbitration: a process by which a conflict is resolved arbitrator: a judge adjudge, determine, referee, adjudicate, judge, rule, decide, moderate |
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Archaic
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Ancient, old-fashioned
Archaism: an outdated word or phrase ancient, antediluvian, antique, bygone, dated, dowdy, fusty, obsolete, old-fashioned, outdated, outmoded, passe, prehistoric, stale, superannuated, superseded, vintage |
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Ardor
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Intense and passionate feeling
Ardent: expressing ardor; passionate devotion, fervidity, fire, zealousness, enthusiasm, fervidness, passion, fervency, fervor, zeal |
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Articulate
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Able to speak clearly and expressively
eloquent, lucid, expressive, silver-tongued, fluent, smooth-spoken |
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Assauge
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To make something unpleasent less severe
allay, comfort,lighten, pacify, propitiate, sweeten, alleviate, conciliate, mitigate, palliate, relieve, appease, ease, mollify, placate, soothe |
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Attenuate
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To reduce in force or degree; to weaken
debilitate, enervate, sap, undo, weaken, devitalize, en feeble, thin, unnerve, dilute, rarefy, undermine, water |
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Audacious
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Fearless and daring
Audacity: the quality of being audacious adventuresome, aggresive, assertive, bold, brave, courageous, daring, dauntless, doughty, fearless, gallant, game, heroic, intrepid, mettlesome, plucky, stout, stouthearted, unafraid, undaunted, valiant, valorous, venturesome, venturous |
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Austere
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Severe or stern in appearance; undecorated
Austerity: severity, especially poverty bleak, dour, grim, hard, harsh, severe |
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Banal
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Predictable, cliched, boring
banality: the quality of being banal bland, commonplace, innocuous, musty, quotidian, sterotypic, tired, worn-out, bromidic, fatuous insipid, platitudinous, shopworn, threadbare, trite, cliched, hackneyed, jejune, prosaic, stale, timeworn, vapid |
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Bolster
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To support; to prop up
brace, support, uphold, buttress, sustain, prop, underpin |
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Bombastic
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Pompous in speech and manner
Bombast: pompous speech or writing Bloated, declamatory, fustian, grandiloquent, grandiose, high-flown, magniloquent, orotund, pretentious, rhetorical, self-important |
