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30 Cards in this Set
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CORRABORATE
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To provide supporting evidence.
The victims stories CORRABORATED. |
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CREDULOUS
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Too trusting; gullible
Many tourists are taken advantage of due to their CREDULOUSNESS |
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DECORUM
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Appropriateness of behaviour or conduct; Propriety
I lack the DECOROM for business lunches. |
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DEFERENCE
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Respect; courtesy
The respectful student treated her professor with utmost DEFERENCE. |
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DERIDE
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To speak of or treat with contempt; to mock
Fuck that lady who DERIDED the Jornaleros saying Chapparito. |
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DESICCATE
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To dry out thoroughly.
My skin is completely DESICCATED after being in Colorado only a few weeks. |
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DESULTORY
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Jumping from one thing to another; disconnected
Mikes list of past majors is extremely DESULTORY. |
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DIATRIBE
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An Abusive, condemnatory Speach.
He barked a DIATRIBE at his wife when dinner was not ready when he returned home from work. |
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DIFFIDENT
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Lacking self-confidense
My DIFFIDENCE has prevented me from asking my crush out. |
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DILATORY
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Intented to delay.
The Alderman used DILATORY measures to postpone the resolution unitl it benefited him politically. |
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DILETTANTE
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Someone with an amateurish and Superficial interest in a topic.
She is a DILLETTANTE; just look at her shelves of old hobbies and resume of disconnected jobs. |
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DIRGE
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A funeral hymn or mournful speech.
I wrote grams a DIRGE from Chile. |
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DISABUSE
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To set right; to free from error
The development of DNA has DISABUSED many past verdicts. |
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DISPARATE
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Fundamentally different, entirely unlike.
Although we are sisters, Julie and i are exorbantly DISPARATE. |
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DISSEMBLE
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To present a false appearance, to disguise one's real intentions or character.
I had to DISSEMBLE my true radical nature and laziness at my Rotary interview and at the orientation. |
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DISSONANCE
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A Harsh and disagreeable combination, often in sounds.
Cognitive DISSONANCE is the inner conflict produced when long standing beliefs are challenged by new evidence. |
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DOGMATIC
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Always right
Mom is DOGMATIC |
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ELEGY
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A sorrowful poem or speech
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ENERVATE
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to reduce in strength.
The guerrillas hoped the suprise attacks would poco a poco ENERVATE the army. |
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ENIGMA
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A puzzle or a mystery.
The reason he is still single is an ENIGMA. |
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EPHEMERAL
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Lasting a short time.
The lives of flies seem EPHEMERAL to us. |
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EQUIVOCATE
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To use expressions of double meaning in order to mislead.
When confronted by my 2 boyfriends at the same time I EQUIVOCATED and they both lleft thinking I had chosen them. |
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ERUDITE
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Learned; scholarly
Mike Siddoway is strikingly ERUDITE. |
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ESOTERIC
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known or understood by only a few.
A small proportion of mathematicians are ESOTERIC about the applied field of statistics. |
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ESTIMABLE
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Admirable
She is ESTIMABLE for her many years of involvement in la lucha. |
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EULOGY
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Speech in praise of someone
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EUPHEMISM
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Use of an inoffensive word or phrase in place of a more offensive one.
We use the EUPHEMISM passed away en lugar de died |
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EXCULPATE
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To clear form blame, to prove innocent.
I hope the innocent men on death row will be EXCULPATED soon. |
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EXIGENT
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Urgent; requiring immediate action.
She arrived at the hospital in an EXIGENT state. |
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EXONERATE
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