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20 Cards in this Set
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admonish
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(v) to caution or advise against something; to scold mildley; to remind of a duty
syn: warn, cal on the carpet ant: praise, pat on the back |
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breach
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(n) an opening, gap, rupture, rift; a violation or infraction
(v) to create an opening, break through ant: close, seal |
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bringand
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(n) a bandit, robber, outlaw, highwayman
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circumspect
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(adj) careful, cautious
syn: wary, prudent, guarded ant: incautious, rash, reckless, heedless |
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commandeer
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(v) to seize of military use
syn: take over, requisition, expropriate |
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cumbersome
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(adj) clumsy, hard to handle, slow-moving
syn: inwieldy, ponderous ant: managable, easy to handle |
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deadlock
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(n) a standstill resulting from the opposition of two equal forces or fractions
(v) to bring to such a standstill syn: standoff, stalemate, impasse |
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debris
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scattered frangments, wreckage
syn: rubble, detritus, flotsam and jetstream |
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diffuse
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(v) to spread or to scatter freely or widley
(adj) wordy, long-winded, or unfocused; scattered or widley spread syn: disperse, rambling, verbose, prolix ant: concentrate, brief, concise, succinct |
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dilemma
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(n) a difficult or perplexing situation or problem
syn: preicament, quandry, picke, bind ant: cinch |
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efface
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(v) to wipe out; to keep oneself from being noticed
syn: blot out, erase, obliterate, expunge |
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muddle
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(v) to make a mess of; muddle through; to get by
(n) a hopless mess syn: jumble, mess up, confusion, disorder ant: orderliness, tidiness, neatness |
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opinionated
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(adj) stubborn and often unreasonable in holdin to ones own ideas, having a closed mind
syn: obstinate, pigheaded, inflexible ant: open-minded, reasonable |
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perennial
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(adj) lastin a long time, persitant
(n) a plant that lives many years syn: enduring, recurring ant: brief, short-lived, fleeting, ephemeral |
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predispose
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(v) to indicate beforehand
syn: make susceptible to ant: hold to keep, retain, cling to |
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relinquish
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(v) to let go of
syn: surrender, abandon ant: hold onto, keep, retain, cling to |
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salvage
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(v) to save from fire or shipwreck
(n) prperty thus saved syn: rescue, recover, retrieve, reclaim ant: abandon, scrap, junk |
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spasmodic
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(adj) sudden and violent but brief; fitful; intermittentent
syn: irregular, occasional ant: steady, continuous, chronic |
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spurious
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(adj) not genuine, not true, not vlaid
syn: false, counterfit, fradulant, bogus ant: genuine, authentic, bona fide, valid |
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inbridled
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(adj) uncontrolled, lacking in resistance
syn: unrestrained, unchecked ant: restrained, held in check, muted |
