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52 Cards in this Set
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Anomaly
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Deviation from what is normal
syn: aberration; abnormality; deviation; irregularity |
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Assuage
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To make something unpleasant less severe
syn: allay; alleviate; appease; lighten; mitigate; mollify |
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Enigma
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A puzzle; a mystery
syn: conundrum; perplexity |
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Equivocate
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To use expressions of double meaning in order to mislead
syn: hedge; waffle |
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Erudite
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Learned, scholarly, bookish
syn: learned; scholastic; wise |
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Fervid
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Intensely emotional; feverish
syn: burning; impassioned; passionate; vehement; zealous |
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Lucid
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Clear and easily understood
syn: clear; coherent; explicit; intelligible; limpid |
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Opaque
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Impossible to see through; preventing the passage of light
syn: obscure |
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Placate
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To soothe or pacify
syn: appease; conciliate; mollify |
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Precipitate
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To throw violently or bring about abruptly; lacking deliberation
syn: hurl; rush |
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Prodigal
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Lavish, wasteful
syn: extravagant; lavish; profilgate; sprendthrift; wasteful |
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Zeal
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Passion, excitement
syn: ardency; fervor; fire; passion |
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Abstain
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To choose not to do something
syn: forbear; refrain; withhold |
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Adulterate
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To make impure
syn: debase; doctor; load |
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Apathy
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Lack of interest or emotion
syn: disinterest; disregard; indifference; insensibility |
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Audacious
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Fearless and daring
syn: adventuresome; assertive; bold; brave; courageous; daring |
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Capricious
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Changing one's mind quickly and often
syn: arbitrary; chance; changeable; erratic; fickle; inconstant; mercurial; random; whimsical |
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Corroborate
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To support with evidence
syn: authenicate; back; butress; confirm; substantiate; validate; verify |
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Desiccate
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To dry out thoroughly
syn: dehydrate; dry; parch |
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Engender
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To produce, cause, or bring about
syn: beget; generate; procreate; proliferate; reproduce; spawn |
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Ephemeral
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Lasting a short time
syn: evanescent; fleeting; momentary; transient |
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Gullible
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Easily deceived
syn: credulous; exploitable; naive |
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Homogenous
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Of a similar kind
syn: consistent; standardized; uniform; unvarying |
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Laconic
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Using few words
syn: concise; curt; pithy; taciturn; terse |
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Laud
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To give praise; to glorify
syn: acclaim; applaud; commend; compliment; exalt; extol; hail; praise |
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Loquacious
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Talkative
syn: effusive; garrulous; verbose |
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Mitigate
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To soften, to lessen
syn: allay; alleviate; assuage; ease; lighten; moderate; mollify; palliate; temper |
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Pedant
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Someone who shows off learning
syn: doctrinaire; nit-picker; pedafofue; scholar; schoolmaster; sophist |
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Pragmatic
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Practical, as opposed to idealistic
syn: rational; realistic |
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Propriety
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The quality of behaving in a proper manner, obeying rules and customs
syn: appropriateness; decency; decorum; modesty |
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Vacillate
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To physically sway, to be indecisive
Syn: dither; falter; oscillate; waver |
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Volatile
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Easily aroused or changeable; lively or explosive
syn: capricious; erratic; fickle; inconsistent; inconstant; mercurial; temperamental |
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Advocate
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To speak in favor of
syn: back; champion; support |
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Antipathy
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Extreme dislike
syn: animosity; animus; antagomism; aversion; enmity |
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Bolster
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To support; to prop up
syn: brace; buttress; crutch; prop; stay; support; sustain; underpinning; uphold |
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Cacophony
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Harsh, jarring noise
syn: chaos; clamor; din; discord; disharmony; noise |
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Deride
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To speak of or treat with contempt, to mock
syn: gibe; jeer; mock; ridiule |
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Dissonance
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A harsh and disagreeable combination, especially of sounds
syn: clash; contention; discord; dissension; dissent; dissidence; friction; strife; variance |
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Enervate
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To reduce in strength
syn: debilitate; enfeeble; sap; weaken |
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Eulogy
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Speech in praise of someone
syn: encomium; elegy; panegyric |
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Garrulous
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Tending to talk a lot
syn:effusive, loquacious |
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Ingenuous
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Showing innocence or childlike simplicity
syn: artless; guileless; innocent; naive; simple; unaffected |
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Lethargic
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Acting in an indifferent or slow, sluggish manner
syn: apathetic; lackadaisical; languid; listless; torpid |
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Malleable
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Capable of being shaped
syn: adaptale; ductile; plastiv; pliable; pliant |
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Misanthrope
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A person who dislikes others
syn: curmudgeoun |
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Obdurate
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Hardened in feeling, resistant to persuasion
syn: inflexible; intransigent; recalcitrant; tenacious; unyielding |
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Ostentation
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Excessive showiness
syn: conspicuousness; flashiness; pretentiousness; showiness |
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Paradox
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A contradiction or dilemma
syn: ambiguity; incongruity |
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Philanthropy
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Charity; a desire or effort to promote goodness
syn: altruism; humanitarianism |
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Prevaricate
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To lie or deviate from the truth
syn: equivocate; lie; perjure |
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Venerate
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To respect deeply
syn: adore; honor; idolize; revere |
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Waver
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To fluctuate between choices
syn: dither; falter; fluctuate; oscillate; vacillate |
