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25 Cards in this Set
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Abstruse |
Difficult to understand, recondite, concealed |
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Affable |
Friendly, courteous, amiable |
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Audacity |
Excessive boldness, rashness, daring |
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Contrite |
Extremely apologetic, remorseful, repentent |
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Credulous |
Believing on sight evidence, gullible |
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Depravity |
Moral corruption, a wicked or perverse act |
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Deprecate |
To dissaprove regrettably, to belittle, to express dissaprovement |
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Didactic |
Instructive, designed to teach |
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Dormant |
Inactive, sleeping |
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Enigmatic |
Mysterious, inexplicable, puzzling |
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Erudite |
Scholarly |
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Exotic |
Foreign, unfamiliar |
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Fuse |
To mix to join (usually melting) |
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Immutable |
Unchanging |
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Incorrigible |
Incapable of being reformed or improved |
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Loathe |
To detest |
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Mitigate |
To cause to become less harsh or hostile; to make less severe |
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Nullify |
To cause not to be in effect, to negate |
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Pacifistic |
Opposed to war or use of force |
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Pretentious |
Making an extravagant |
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Prologue |
Introductory remarks in a speech, play a literate work |
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Recant |
To withdraw or to repudiate a statement or believe, revoke |
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Servile |
Overly submissive |
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Trepidation |
Fear, trembling, agitation |
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Vilify |
To malign, to defame, to utter abusive statements |