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26 Cards in this Set
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Harangue
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v: To rant, berate.
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It was the commanders duty to harangue the cadets.
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Harbinger
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n: One who or that which foreruns and announces the coming of any person or thing.
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Warm weather is a harbinger of spring.
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Heinous
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adj: odiously sinful
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The madman committed a heinous crime.
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Idiosyncrasy
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n: A mental quality or habit peculiar to an individual.
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An idiosyncrasy she had was sleeping in shoes.
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Inane:
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adj: Silly, ridiculous, childish.
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His inane comments made him seem silly next to his serious sister.
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Inchoate
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adj: In the beginning stagesm undeveloped, embryonic.
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The puppy goes through the inchoate stage before it becomes a dog.
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Juxtapose
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v: To place close together as to compare.
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She had to juxtapose the two dressed to chose which one was best.
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Knavery
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n: Deceitfulness in dealing.
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He showed his knavery when he cheated at the game.
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Lacteal
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adj: Milky.
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The chocolate candy bar had a lacteal taste.
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Latent
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adj: Dormant, underlying, or buried.
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The virus lies latent for years before it finally kills you.
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Laudable
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adj: Commendable, worthy of praise or recognition.
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Helping an old person cross the stree it a laudable act.
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Malady
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n: Any physical disease or disorder, especially a chronic or deep-seated one.
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She suffers from a rare mallady.
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Manumission
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n: Emancipation, to set free from bondage.
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He believed in the manumission of slaves.
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Mellifluous
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adj: Sweetly or smoothly flowing.
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I spoke polite with a mellifluous, well-educated voice.
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Obseqious
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adj: Showing a servile readiness to fall in with the wishes or will of another.
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His obseqious manner made him a pushover.
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Odoriferous
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adj: Having or diffusing an odor or scent, especially an agreeable one.
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His odoriferous laundry caught the woman's eye.
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Panacea
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n: A remedy or medicine proposed for or professing to cure all disease.
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Aspirin is considered a panacea for aches and pain.
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Pandemic
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adj: A plague or disease affecting a whole people or all classes.
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Pandemic influenza outbreaks can kill millions.
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Paroxysm
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n: A sudden outburst of any kind of activity; a spasm or fit.
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When his father died, he broke into a paroxysm of tears.
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Queue
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n: A file of persons waitingin order of their arrival, as for admittance; a line.
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Computers arrange data into a queue.
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Rankle
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v: To annoy, to produce irritation or festering.
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He turned on the car alarm to rankle the neighbors.
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Rebuff
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v: To reject, to produce irritation or festering.
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She had to rebuff him before he tried to pitch a horrible line.
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Rebut
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v: To oppose by argument of a sufficient answer.
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My lawyer had to rebut his speech in order for our case to win.
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Salacious
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adj: Appealing to or stimulating sexual desire, lustful or bawdy.
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The woman was very salacious while flirting with the man.
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Zealot
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n: A fanatic, one who exspouses a cause or pursues an object in a immoderately partisan manner.
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The zealot was obessed with the singer.
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Odious
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adj: Arousing strong dislike or intense displeasure.
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He was an odious man, always attacking others.
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