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10 Cards in this Set
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cajole-v
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persuade by false promises
banter, beguile, blandish, bootlick, brownnose, entrape, entice, decieve, delude, inveigle, seduce, mislead, stroke, suck-up, tantalize, tempt, allure |
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callous-adj
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insensitive or unfeeling
apathetic, careless, cold, hardhearted, heartless, insensate, indifferent, insentient, inured, obdurate, stubborn, uncompassionate, uncaring, unsusceptible |
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capitulate-v
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surrender or to cease resisting
cede, cave in, concede, defer, fold, succumb, surrender, yield, accept under agreed conditions, acquiesce, give up, relent, buckle under |
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capricious-adj
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a very challenging composition; someone or something is changeable
arbitrary, careless, changeful, contrary, aimless, crotchety, effervescent, fanciful, fickle, flaky, kinky, lubricious, impulsive, mercurial, vagarious, volatile |
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carping-adj
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the act of complaining or whining
bellyaching, caviling, censorious, critical, deprecatory, disparaging, griping, hypercritical, moaning, quibbling, scathing, whining |
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catalyst-n
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someone or something that brings about a change
goad, adjuvant, agitator, impetus, impulse, incitation, incentive, reactant, spur, stimulant, synergist |
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catharsis-n
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an emotional purification or relief
ablution, purging, purification, abreaction, cleansing, expurgation, lustration, purgation, release |
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caustic-adj
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stinging or biting
burning, corrosive, abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, alkaline, astringent, corroding, erosive, keen, mordant, pungent, tart |
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celestial-adj
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having to do with the heavens; divine
almighty, angelic, Olympian, astral, beatific, blessed, divine, elysian, empyral, ethereal, godlike, immortal, holy, sublime, supernatural, supernal, spiritual, seraphic, transmudane, transcendental |
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censure-v
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to blame or criticize adversely
condemn, abuse, admonish, aminadvert, berate, attack, carp at, castigate, denigrate, denounce, exprobate, disparage, rebuke, ostracize, rebuff, judge, knock, impugn, reprimand, scold, reprove, incriminate |
