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117 Cards in this Set
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BOLD
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Audacious
Courageous Dauntless |
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CHANGING QUICKLY
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Capricious
Mercurial Volatile |
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HESITATE
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Dither
Vacillate Oscillate Waver Teeter |
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ACT QUICKLY
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Apace
Impetuous Abrupt Precipitate Headlong |
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INNOCENT/INEXPERIENCED
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Credulous
Ingenuous Gullible Novitiate Naive Tyro |
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DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND
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Abstruse
Bemusing Esoteric Opaque Recondite Ambiguous Cryptic Inscrutable Paradoxical Turbid Arcane Enigmatic Obscure Perplexing |
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EASY TO UNDERSTAND
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Articulate
Evident Pellucid Cogent Limpid Eloquent Lucid |
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SMART/LEARNED
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Astute
Perspicacious Canny Erudite |
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CRITICIZE/CRITICISM
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Aspersion
Calumny Defamation Diatribe Gainsay Inveigh Obloquy Remonstrate Reprove Vituperate Belittle Castigate Denounce Disparage Harangue Lambaste Opprobrium Rebuke Revile Berate Decry Deride/Derisive Excoriate Impugn Objurgate Pillory Reprehend Tirade |
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CAROUSAL
-drunkenly festive; sin, evil act |
Bacchanalian
Iniquity Licentious Salacious Depraved Libertine Reprobate Sordid Dissipated Libidinous Ribald Turpitude |
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TRUTH
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Candor/Candid
Indisputable Probity Verity Fealty Indubitable Sincere Frankness Legitimate Veracious |
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FALSEHOOD
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Apocryphal
Dissemble Erroneous Feigned Perfidy Spurious Canard Duplicity Ersatz Guile Prevaricate Chicanery Equivocate Fallacious Mendacious/Mendacity Specious |
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BITING
(As in wit or temperament) -sarcastic, harsh, rough |
Ascerbic
Asperity Mordant Acidulous Caustic Trenchant Acrimonious Mordacious |
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PRAISE
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Acclaim
Encomium Fawn Accolade Eulogize Laud/Laudatory Aggrandize Extol Venerate/Veneration |
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HARMFUL
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Baleful
Inimical Minatory Baneful Injurious Perfidious Deleterious Insidious Pernicious |
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TIMID/TIMIDITY
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Craven
Recreant Diffident Timorous Pusillanimous Trepidation |
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BORING
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Banal
Insipid Platitude Trite Fatuous Mundane Prosaic Hackneyed Pedestrian Quotidian |
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WEAKEN
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Adulterate
Inhibit Undermine Enervate Obviate Vitiate Exacerbate Stultify |
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ASSIST
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Abet
Bolster Espouse Proponent Advocate Corroborate Mainstay Stalwart Ancillary Countenance Munificent Sustenance |
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HOSTILE
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Antithetic
Irascible Truculent Churlish Malevolent Vindictive Curmudgeon Misanthropic |
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STUBBORN
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Implacable
Intransigent Recalcitrant Untoward Inexorable Obdurate Refractory Vexing Intractable Obstinate Renitent |
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BEGINNING/YOUNG
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Burgeoning
Inchoate Callow Incipient Engender Nascent |
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GENEROUS/KIND
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Altruistic
Largess Philanthropic Beneficent Magnanimous Unstinting Clement Munificent |
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GREEDY
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Avaricious
Miserly Venal Covetous Penurious Mercenary Rapacious |
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TERSE
-concise, brief |
Compendious
Pithy Curt Succinct Laconic Taciturn |
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OVERBLOWN/WORDY
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Bombastic
Grandiloquent Prolix Verbose Circumlocution Loquacious Rhetoric Garrulous Periphrastic Turgid |
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DICTATORIAL
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Authoritarian
Hegemonic (hegemony) Tyrannical Dogmatic Imperious Despotic Peremptory |
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HATRED
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Abhorrence
Antipathy Loathing Rancor Antagonism Detestation Malice Anathema Enmity Odium |
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BEGINNER/AMATEUR
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Dilettante
Novitiate Fledgling Proselyte Neophyte Tyro |
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LAZY/SLUGGISH
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Indolent
Languid Phlegmatic Torpid Inert Lassitude Quiescent Lackadaisical Lethargic Slothful |
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PACIFY/SATISFY
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Ameliorate
Defer Placate Slake Appease Mitigate Propitiate Soothe Assuage Mollify Satiate |
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FORGIVE
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Absolve
Exonerate Redress Acquit Expiate Vindicate Exulpate Palliate |
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POOR
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Destitute
Impecunious Esurient Indigent |
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FAVORING/NOT IMPARTIAL
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Ardor/Ardent
Partisan Doctrinaire Tendentious Fervid Zealot |
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DENYING OF SELF
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Abnegate
Spartan Abstain Stoic Ascetic Temperate |
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WALKING ABOUT
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Ambulatory
Itinerant Peripatetic |
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INSINCERE
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Disingenuous (Ingenuous=innocent/ inexperienced)
Ostensible Dissemble Unctuous Fulsome |
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PREVENT/OBSTRUCT
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Discomfit
Forfend Inhibit Encumber Hinder Occlude Fetter Impede |
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ECCENTRIC/DISSIMILAR
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Aberrant
Discrete Iconoclast Anachronism Eclectic Anomalous Esoteric |
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FUNNY
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Chortle
Flippant Levity Riposte Droll Gibe Ludicrous Simper Facetious Jocular Raillery |
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SORROW
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Disconsolate
Elegiac Lugubrious Plaintive Doleful Forlorn Melancholy Threnody (death/mourning) Dolor Lament (death/mourning) Morose |
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DISGUSTING/OFFENSIVE
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Defile
Noisome Rebarbative Fetid Odious Invidious Putrid |
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WITHDRAWAL/RETREAT
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Abeyance
Abortive Demur Remission Retrograde Abjure Abrogate Recant Renege Abnegation Decamp Redidivism Rescind |
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DEATH/MOURNING
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Bereave
Demise Knell Moribund Wraith Cadaver Dolorous Lament (sorrow) Obsequies Threnody (sorrow) Defunct Elegy Macabre Sepulchral |
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COPY
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Counterpart
Factitious Quintessence Emulate Paradigm Simulated Facsimile Precursor Vicarious |
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EQUAL
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Equitable
Equity Tantamount |
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UNUSUAL
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Aberration (eccentric/dissimilar)
Idiosyncrasy Anomaly (eccentric/dissimilar) Iconoclast (eccentric/dissimilar) |
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WANDERING
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Discursive
Itinerant (walking about) Sojourn Expatiate Peregrination Forage Peripatetic (walking about) |
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GAPS/OPENINGS
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Abatement
Hiatus Lull Respite Aperture Interregnum Orifice Rift Fissure Interstice Rent |
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HEALTHY
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Beneficial
Salubrious Salutary |
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ABBREVIATED COMMUNICATION
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Abridge
Curtail Terse Compendium Syllabus Cursory Synopsis |
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WISDOM
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Adage
Axiom Epigram Truism Aphorism Bromide Platitude Apothegm Dictum Sententious |
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FAMILY
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Conjugal
Endogamous Progenitor Consanguine Filial Scion Distaff Fratricide |
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NOT A STRAIGHT LINE
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Askance
Carom Gyrate Oblique Sinuous Awry Circuitous Labyrinth Serrated Undulating Careen Circumvent Meander Sidle Vortex |
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INVESTIGATE
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Appraise
Descry Ascertain Peruse Assay |
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TIME/ORDER/DURATION
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Anachronism
Anterior Eon Fortnight Synchronous Antecede Archaic Ephemeral Millennium Temporal Antedate Diurnal Epoch Penultimate |
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BAD MOOD
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Bilious
Petulant Querulous Dudgeon Pettish Umbrage Irascible Pique Waspish |
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EMBARRASS
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Abash
Contrition Foible Chagrin Diffidence Gancherie Compunction Expiate Rue |
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HARDHEARTED
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Asperity
Fell Sardonic Vitriolic Baleful (harmful) Malevolent (hostile) Scathing Vituperation Dour Mordant Truculent (hostile) |
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NAG
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Admonish
Enjoin Hector Reproof Cavil Exhort Martinet Belabor Harangue (criticize) Remonstrate (criticize) |
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PREDICT
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Augur
Harbinger Prescient Auspice Portentous Prognosticate Fey Presage |
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LUCK
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Adventitious
Fortuitous Optimum Propitious Amulet Kismet Portentous Providential Auspicious Nemesis Propitiate Talisman |
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NASTY
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Fetid (disgusting/offensive)
Noisome (disgusting/offensive) Noxious |
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HARSH-SOUNDING
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Assonance
Dissonant Cacophony Raucous Din Strident |
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PLEASANT-SOUNDING
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Euphorious
Sonorous Harmonious Melodious |
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ANOMALY
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Irregularity or deviation from the norm
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EQUIVOCAL
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Ambiguous, open to 2 interpretations
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LUCID
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Clear and easily understood
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PRECIPITATE
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(adj.)-sudden and unexpected (act quickly)
(v.)-to throw down from a height; to cause to happen |
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ASSUAGE
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To make less severe, ease, relieve
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ERUDITE
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Learned, scholarly
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OPAQUE
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Impervious to light; difficult to understand
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PRODIGAL
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Wasteful, extravagent, lavish
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FERVID
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Passionate, intense zealous
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PLACATE
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To soothe or pacify
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ENIGMA
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Puzzling, inexplicable (difficult to understand)
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ZEAL
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Passionately devoted to a cause (favoring/not impartial)
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ABSTAIN
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To refrain deliberately from something (denying of self)
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AUDACIOUS
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Bold, daring, fearless
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HOMOGENEOUS
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Composed of identical parts
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EPHEMERAL
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Momentary, transient, fleeting
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LACONIC
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Using few words (terse)
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MITIGATE
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To soften, or make milder
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VACILLATE
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To waver, show indecision (hesitate)
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ADULTERATE
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To corrupt or make impure (weaken)
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CAPRICIOUS
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Impulsive, whimsical, without much thought (changing quickly)
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DESICCATE
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To dry completely, dehydrate
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GULLIBLE
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Easily deceived (innocent/inexperienced)
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LAUDABLE
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Deserving of praise
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PRAGMATIC
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Practical; moved by facts rather than abstract ideas
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VOLATILE
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Explosive (changing quickly)
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APATHY
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Lack of feeling or emotion
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CORROBORATE
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To confirm, verify (assist)
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ENGENDER
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To produce, cause, bring about (beginning/ young)
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PEDANT
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One who pays undue attention to book learning and rules; one who displays learning ostentatiously
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LOQUACIOUS
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Talkative (overblown/wordy)
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PROPRIETY
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Appropriateness
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ADVOCATE
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To speak in favor of
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CACOPHONY
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Jarring, unpleasantly noisy (harsh-sounding)
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ENERVATE
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To weaken, sap strength from
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INGENUOUS
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Straightforward, open; naive and unsophisticated (innocent/inexperiened)
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MISANTHROPE
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Person who hates human beings
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PARADOX
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Contradiction, incongruity; dilemma, puzzle
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VENERATE
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Adoration, honor, respect (praise)
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ANTIPATHY
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Dislike, hostility (hatred); Extreme opposition or aversion
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DERIDE
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To mock, ridicule, make fun of
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EULOGY
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High praise, often in a public speech
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LETHARGIC
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Indifferent inactivity
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OBDURATE
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Stubborn
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PHILANTHROPIC
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Love of humanity; generosity to worthy causes
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WAVER
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To show indecision (hesitate)
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BOLSTER
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To support; reinforce (assist)
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DISSONANCE
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Harsh and unpleasant sounding
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GARRULOUS
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Very talkative (overblown/wordy)
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MALLEABLE
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Capable of being shaped
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OSTENTATION
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Showy
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PREVARICATE
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To lie, evade the truth (falsehood)
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