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49 Cards in this Set
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Abstract |
Not Concentrate ex: The painting was of an abstract figure |
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Aesthetic |
Having to do with appreciation of beauty. Ex:Maybe they started paying more attention to the aesthetic value of things. |
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Alleviate |
To ease a pain or burden Ex: I need to stretch to alleviate my calf strain |
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Ambivalent |
feeling opposing feelings Ex: Despite their ambivalent position on humanity, they'd been somewhat helpful thus far. |
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Apathetic |
Showing little emotion. Ex:On the whole they are mild and easy going and even apathetic, but the facility with what they learn is remarkable. |
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Auspicious |
Favorable Ex:Could events be more auspicious for the party seeking retrocession. |
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Benevolent |
Generous Ex: I have to sit back and look like i'm the grateful little kid getting help from the benevolent teacher |
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Candor |
Sincerity Ex: Gone was julie's candor expressed on her first visit |
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Comprehensive |
Complete in scope or content Ex: His face was a road map of emotion, traveling from puzzled, to comprehensive and then on to frustration |
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Contemporary |
Current, modern Ex. Contemporary artists were selected. |
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Maverick |
One who resists adhearence to a group ex: The rebellious boy was known as a Maverick |
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Stoic |
Indifferent to pleasure or pain Ex. She turned and studied his stoic profile anxiously. |
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Esoteric |
Known only to a select group Ex. The belief being esoteric, a secret of the initiated, necessarily escaped casual inquirers. |
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Plausible |
Seemingly valid or acceptable Ex. When Jason forgot to do his homework, he tried to come up with a plausible excuse his teacher would believe. |
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Transitory |
Short Lived Ex. Hence Spencer concludes that the sense of duty is transitory and must diminish as moralization increases. |
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Prosaic |
Unimaginable Ex. There is some poetry in this composition, but it alternates with very prosaic details |
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Innovative |
Intoducing something new Ex. BMW is working on a innovative car |
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Dubious |
Doubtful, Unlikely Ex. His answer was dubious to say the least. |
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Objectivity |
Judgement uninfluenced by emotion. Ex. It is, indeed, the very impartiality and objectivity of his attitude that make the writings of Gentz such illuminating documents for the period of history which they cover |
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Paramount |
Chief concern or importance Ex. Islam is paramount in Turkey, Persia, Arabia and Afghanistan. |
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Novel |
Strikingly new or unusual Ex. If you were a novel, I wouldn't read you beyond the first page. |
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Gratuitous |
Given freely Ex. The sentence was executed with gratuitous harshness. |
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Superfuous |
Extra or necessary Ex. The madness of superfluous health I have never known. |
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Conviction |
Strong Ex. Dusty's conviction was on his face. |
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Diligent |
Marked by painstaking effort Ex. The full account of his diligent investigations was never published. |
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Inherent |
Inborn, Built-in Ex. It is inherent in every human being |
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Eclectic |
Made up of a variety of styles Ex.In the matter of Universals, Duns was more of a realist and less of an eclectic than Aquinas |
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Mollify |
To calm or soothe Ex. I am hoping the hot tea and crackers will mollify my husband and help him relax. |
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Tenuous |
Having little strength, weak Ex. I had little doubt Quinn would tell Howie, disrupting his tenuous relationship with Julie |
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Dismal |
Depressing, Dreary Ex. Their dismal scream is truly Ben Jonsonian. |
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Commenced |
To begin, Start Ex. It is best to commence the electrolytic thickening in a silver acetate bath. |
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Victuals |
Food supplies Ex. Twenty-four hours of victuals and twenty-four hours of hunger will be many more hours than we shall need. |
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Ransom |
Sum or price paid or demanded to redeem from captivity Ex.There are lots of unsolved cases, kidnappings for ransom too. |
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Enchantment |
The art, act, or an instance of magical influence Ex. This fay by enchantment built the castle of Lusignan for her husband. |
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Raspy |
Harsh, grating Ex.The girl's voice was timid and raspy, no more than a whisper. |
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Counterfeit |
Made in imitation so as to be passed off fraudly Ex. The money was counterfeit |
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Temperance |
Modern or self restraint in action Ex. He was actively interested in peace, temperance and anti-slavery movements. |
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Abolish |
To do away with Ex. The United States abolished slavery |
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Hail |
To call out in order to greet, stop, or attract attention Ex. The young man hailed a cab to escape the =olice |
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Abreast |
Side by side facing the same way Ex.In education the Catholic Church endeavours to keep abreast with the best. |
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Brash |
Vulgarly self assertive, Hasty, rash |
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Lolled |
Sit, lie, or stand in a lazy relaxed way Ex.She lolled her head back and closed her eyes |
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Abolitionist |
A person who favors the doing away with a practice or institution His services as an abolitionist pioneer are recorded in Clarkson's History of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade. |
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Speculate |
To form a theory about a subject without firm evidence Ex. If you want me to speculate, I'd say it ran far deeper than that. |
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Solemn |
Formal, serious, or not cheerful Ex. He had been unusually quiet and solemn lately. |
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Bygones |
A thing dating from an earlier time Ex. India Square" remains, a memento of a bygone day. |
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Lament |
To mourn Ex.I may lament and weep," he adds " but truly I have had admirable sport," with his greyhounds |
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Pensive. |
Reflecting in serious thought Ex. Seeing human-Deidre left him pensive, not entirely certain what to do about his own mate. |
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Disposition |
A tendency to act in a specified way Ex. Their disposition was to leave the Chinese in unmolested possession of the plain. |
