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99 Cards in this Set
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Abate |
reduce in intensity |
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Abjure |
renounce; swear to refrain from something; repudiate |
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Blandishment |
words used to coax or flatter; cajole; unctuous |
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Boor |
ill-mannered person; boorish |
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Cardinal |
1. high ranking church official 2. major; important; paramount |
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Deliberate |
1. slow 2. to think over 3. on purpose |
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Equivocation |
speaking ambiguously; prevaricate |
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Feckless |
feeble; helpless; lacking in initiative |
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Imperturbability |
quality of being calm and not easily disturbed |
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Meretricious |
falsely attractive; tawdry |
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Augury |
prediction; looking for omens |
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Boycott |
refuse to have dealings with |
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Glib |
slick; superficial esp. in speech |
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Incise |
cut into |
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Moralistic |
concerned with morals |
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Ostracism |
shunning; social isolation |
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Penchant |
inclination; leaning; tendency; predilection; proclivity |
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Rarefy |
make less dense |
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Repine |
fret; be discontented |
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Stipulate |
specify |
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Diaphanous |
transparent; thin and delicate; gossamer |
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Feint |
pretended attack; a move intended to deceive |
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Inured |
hardened; habituated; accustom to (usually something unpleasant) |
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Mettlesome |
spirited |
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Puissance |
power; potent |
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Recondite |
obscure; abstruse; arcane |
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Stygian |
very dark (relating to the Styx river) |
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Touting |
advertising; support |
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Virtuosity |
skill, expertise |
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Volubility |
excessive talkativeness |
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Caret |
punctuation mark signifying omission |
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Contiguous |
adjacent; touching; abutting |
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Damp |
(of vibration) reduce in extent |
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Ellipsis |
omission of essential words |
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Extirpation |
wiping out; complete destruction of |
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Foppish |
behaving or dressing like a dandy; excessively concerned with fashion |
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Gaffe |
blunder; social mistake |
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Hortatory |
encouraging; exhorting |
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Opprobrious |
expressing great scorn |
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Recumbent |
reclining; lying down |
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Ambidextrous |
able to use both left and right hands equally well |
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Culpability |
guilt |
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Discernment |
judgement; perceptiveness |
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Encomium |
praise |
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Inveigle |
coax; cajole; wheedle; entice |
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Minatory |
threatening; ominous |
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Ossified |
turned to bone; become rigid |
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Plumb |
measure depth; exact |
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Quintessential |
most typical; the perfect example of; paragon |
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Runic |
mysterious; magical |
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Accretion |
accumulation of matter; growth produced by adding from the outside |
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Anachronistic |
occurring in the wrong time period |
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Chronic |
long lasting (disease) |
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Churlishness |
rudeness; ill-mannered behavior |
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Demagogue |
mob leader |
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Effrontery |
daring; audacity (has a negative connotation) |
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Idyll |
story or incident in peaceful or ideal setting |
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Interregnum |
interval between reigns or governments |
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Nugatory |
of minor significance; futile |
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Sinecure |
job which pays salary but requiring little effort |
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Anodized |
electroplated; coated with thin layer of metal |
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Aphoristic |
expressed tersely; succinct; laconic |
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Canonical |
orthodox |
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Commensurate |
equal in significance |
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Dexterity |
skill, esp. with hands |
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Extant |
still in existence (opposite of extinct) |
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Impugned |
challenged; called into question |
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Probity |
uprightness; honesty; decorum; veracity |
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Raconteur |
person who relates a story |
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Solicitous |
kindly; expressing care and concern |
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Amalgamate |
join; consolidate |
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Baleful |
evil |
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Coerce |
force |
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Inchoate |
undeveloped; nascent |
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Iniquitous |
evil; unjust |
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Libertine |
dissolute person; prodigal |
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Millinery |
hats and hat-making |
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Natty |
neat; dapper; smart; fashionable |
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Occluded |
obscured; blocked |
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Sidereal |
of or relating to stars |
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Avaricious |
greedy for money |
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Extirpate |
wipe out totally |
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Halcyon |
peaceful and happy; calm (esp. of summer weather) |
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List |
1. to lean to one side 2. to write in order |
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Maudlin |
sad; sentimental; inclined to weep |
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Refulgent |
glowing; radiant |
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Subliminal |
below the threshold of consciousness |
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Testiness |
irritability; irascibility |
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Vituperate |
attack bitterly |
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Whittle |
1. carve with a knife 2. reduce step by step |
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Colander |
bowl with holes used to drain vegetables etc. |
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Cumbersome |
bulky; difficult to carry |
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Dispatch |
1. send 2. speed; celerity |
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Epistemology |
theory of knowledge |
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Froward |
stubborn; wayward; disobedient |
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Supine |
lying flat on one's back |
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Throwback |
exhibiting primitive, or ancestral, traits |
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Untoward |
unexpected |
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Verisimilar |
true to life; giving the appearance of reality |
