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49 Cards in this Set
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Aplomb |
Complete and confident composure or self-assurance |
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Bracing |
Giving strength, vigor, or freshness |
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Constrained |
To force or produce in an unnatural or restrained manner |
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Furor |
An outbreak of public anger or excitement |
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Toil |
Exhausting physical labor |
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Paean |
Song of praise or triumph |
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Beaver |
Work hard |
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Incongruence |
Not the same; incompatible: out of place |
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Vacuous |
Having or showing a lack if thought or intelligence; mindless |
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Facetious |
Treating serious issues with deliberately ill humor; flippant |
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Ubiquitous |
Presenting, appearing, or found everywhere |
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Recrudescence |
Recurring of an undesirable condition |
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Distill |
Emanate as vapor; extract the essential meaning or most important aspect |
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Jettison |
Abandon or discard something |
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Sanguine |
Optimistic or positive; blood-red |
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Salubrious |
Health-giving; healthy; pleasant |
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Linchpin |
Person or something vital to an organization |
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Acquiesce |
Accept something reluctantly and without protest |
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Litigate |
Take to a court of law |
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Adjucate |
Make a formal judgement/decision about a disputed matter |
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Pliant |
Pliable or bendable |
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Rapt |
Completely fascinated |
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Frenetic |
Fast and energetic in a wild way |
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Equivocation |
Intentional vagueness |
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Convivial |
Lively |
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Hauteur |
Overbearing pride and self superiority |
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Asperity |
Harshness in tone it manner |
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Disparage |
Regard as being if little worth |
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Insouciance |
Cheerful feeling when nothing is troubling you |
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Aver |
State or assert as trye |
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Prose |
Written or spoken language |
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Loath |
Unwilling to do something contrary to custom |
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Unstinting |
Very generous |
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Self-effacing |
Reluctant to draw attention to self |
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Churlish |
Have a bad disposition |
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Bent |
Inclination |
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Patina |
The appearance of something |
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Célèbre |
A legal case that excites interest; a notorious person/thing |
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Unflappable |
Having/showing calmness in a crisis |
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Hector |
Talk to someone in a bullying way |
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Diminutive |
Unusually small |
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Inept |
Showing no skill; clumsy |
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Middling |
Average |
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Bawdy |
Humorously indecent; dealing with sexual matters in comical way |
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Conflate |
Combine into one |
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Undergird |
Provide support |
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Benighted |
A state if intellectual/moral ignorance; overtaken by darkness |
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Dishevel |
Make untidy |
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Debonair |
Confident, stylish, and charming |