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124 Cards in this Set

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amortize
pay off a debt in installments
abrogate
cancel, repeal
plaudit
statement giving strong praise
obdurate
stubborn
lachrymose
tearful, sad
crepuscular
active at dawn and dusk
laconic
brief
obsequious
servile
tendentious
promoting controversial P.O.V.
voluble
excessively talkative
mellifluous
sweet, musical
paucity
scarcity
avouch
affirm, assert
clement
mild
hidebound
rigid
largess
generosity
officious
meddlesome
tractable
obedient, polite, easily led
euphony
pleasant sounds
execrable
very bad
capacious
spacious
turpitude
depravity
tyro
novice
celerity
speed
panacea
remedy for all ills
dilettante
one who dabbles in a subject
choleric
easily angered
martinent
someone who believes in strict discipline
mendacious
given to lying
inimical
hostile
specious
false
pellucid
transparently clear
punctilious
paying attention to small details
spurious
false
pusillanimous
cowardly
peremptory
in a commanding manner
perfidy
treachery
concatenate
link together
peripatetic
nomadic
invidious
arousing envy
germane
relevant
munificent
generous, charitable
perspicacious
wise, insightful
effusive
gushing, demonstrative
expatiate
speak or write at great length
hackneyed
unoriginal
prosaic
commonplace
attenuate
weaken
desultory
lacking enthusiasm
proscribe
prohibit
lionize
treat someone as a celebrity
assay
examine
cloture
closure
apposite
fitting, suitable
maculated
spotted
sedulous
thorough
nostrum
remedy
quotidian
daily
epaulet
shoulder decoration
picayune
insignificant, of little value
jingoistic
patriotic, nationalistic
sybarite
lover of luxury
gustatory
concerned with sense of taste
abjure
renounce
meretricious
falsely attractive
caret
punctuation mark signifying omission
hortatory
exhorting
recumbent
lying down
encomium
praise
minatory
threatening
nugatory
minor, futile
sinecure
job pays salary but doesn't require effort
anodized
coated with thin metal layer
commensurate
equal in significance
probity
honesty
dissolute
debauched, unrestrained by morality
sidereal
of or related to the stars
natty
neat, dapper, smart
refulgent
glowing, radiant
vituperate
attack bitterly
froward
disobedient
cadge
get by begging
suborn
bribe
tendentious
dogmatic, biased
abcission
cutting
toady
syncophant, flatterer
asperity
using harsh or critical tone
blowhard
boastful person
labile
changing rapidly, unstable
gaucherie
awkwardness
vicissitude
unexpected change in future circumstances
vitiate
weaken
rebus
puzzle with pictures as clues
sere
old
vulpine
like a fox
epigram
short witty saying
dross
something worthless
expiate
atone
enervate
weaken
unprepossessing
unnattractive
scotch
to stop
atavism
reappearance of ancestral traits, regression
propitiate
appease
quixotic
impractically idealistic
adumbrate
outline, indicate
inequity
inequality
parity
equality
abnegate
renounce, reject
obstreperous
noisy and difficult to control
sagacious
wise
fatuous
silly
recalcitrant
stubborn
ignominy
shame
jocose
playful
upshot
outcome
putative
reputed to be
preponderant
predominant
punctiliousness
great attention to correctness
temerity
excessive boldness
stolid
resistant to change
senescence
changing of biology as an organism ages
solecism
grammatical mistake or absurdity
treacly
overly sentimental
ellipsis
error