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31 Cards in this Set
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prate
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to talk idly
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prattle
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Syn: meaningless sounds, babble
Ant: articulate language |
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profundity
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syn: profound knowledge intellecual depth
ant: shallowness; stupidity |
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purveyors
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Syn: provider, procurer
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quell
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to quiet
ant: foment, incite |
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quench
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Syn: to extinguish, put out, relieve with liquid
Ant: stir up |
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rancor
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syn: animosity, animus, antagonism, antipathy, enmity, hostility
ant: affection; kindness |
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renconcile
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syn: reestablish friendship
ant: alienate |
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rend
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cleave rive
ant:unify |
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requite
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syn: repay or return
ant: withhold |
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resolute
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syn: staunch, steadfast, determined, resolved, faithful, firm
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rue
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Syn: to regret
ant: consider happily |
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sanctify
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syn: to make holy, purify
ant: taint |
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scrupulous
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syn: meticulous, punctilious
ant: unprincipled |
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searing
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syn: causing to wither or dry up or become scorched
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sentinel
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syn: keeps guard as a sentry
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sieve
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syn:untensil for sifting or straining
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sovereign
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syn: predominant, paramount, preponderant
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spurn
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to reject or refuse with hostility
ant:embrace |
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stealthy
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syn: clandestine, covert, furtive, surreptitious, underhanded
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summon
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syn: convvene, convoke, muster
ant: to turn away |
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surfeited
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syn: cloy, glut, gorge, pall, sated, satiate
ant: starved |
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temperate
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self control
ant: extreme |
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tidings
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syn: information, news
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trifling
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syn: not significant, frivolous
ant: important, significant |
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usurp
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to take possession or authority over something without right
ant: acquiesce |
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utter
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to express by speaking
ant: leave unspoken |
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vanquished
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conquered, overpowered
ant: submitted |
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voluptuous
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sn: pleasurable to the senses, sensuous
ant:plain, homely |
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wanton
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syn: lewd
ant: moral |
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warranted
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syn: justified
ant: unjustified |
