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32 Cards in this Set
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Thiopental Sodium |
A barbiturate used as an anaesthetic in surgery and in psychiatry for narco analysis and to stimulate recall of past events. |
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Barbiturate |
Any of a group of barbituric acid derivatives, used in medicine as sedatives and hypnotics |
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Derive |
To receive or obtain from a source of origin |
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Insidious |
Intended to entrap or beguile. Stealthily treacherous or deceitful. |
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Beguile |
To be influenced by trickery, flattery. Mislead. Delude. To pass time pleasantly. |
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Caracole |
A half turn executed by a horse and a rider |
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Yeasayer |
A person who habitually agrees with or is submissive to others. A person with an optimistic and confident outlook. |
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Bacchanal |
An occasion of drunken revelry; orgy. A drunken reveller. A follower of Bacchus. |
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Bacchus |
God of wine |
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Draconian |
Rigorous, unusually severe or cruel |
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Anachronism |
Something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time, especially a thing or person that belongs to an earlier time. |
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Punctilious |
Extremely attentive to punctilios; strict or exact in the observance of the formalities or amenities of conduct or actions. |
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Punctilio |
A fine point, particular, or detail as of conduct, ceremony or procedure. Strictness or exactness in the observance of formalities or amenities. |
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Vicarious |
Taking the place of another person or thing. Acting or serving as a substitute. |
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Itinerant |
Working in one place for a comparatively short time and then moving on to work in another place, usually as a physical or outdoor labourer. Characterised by alternating periods of working and wondering. |
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Irascible |
Easily provoked to anger. Very irritable. |
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Celestial |
Pertaining to the sky or visible heaven; or to the universe beyond the earth's atmosphere. Spiritual or invisible heaven. |
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Manifold |
Of many kinds, numerous and varied. |
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Miasma |
A dangerous, foreboding or death like influence or atmosphere |
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Myrmidon |
A person who executes without question or scruple a master's commands |
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Recursive |
Pertaining to or using a rule or procedure that can be applied repeatedly |
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Behindhand |
Late; Tardy |
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Aberration |
The act of departing from the right, normal or usual course. |
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Acerbic |
Harsh or severe; as of temper or expression. Sour or astringent in taste. |
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Aesopian |
Of, relating to, or characteristic of Aesop or his fables Conveying meaning by hint, euphemism, inuendo, or the like. |
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Alacrity |
Cheerful readiness, promptness or willingness Liveliness, briskness |
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Aphorism |
A terse saying embodying a general truth or astute observation |
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Arrant |
Downright, thorough, unmitigated, notorious: an arrant fool |
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Asseverate |
To declare earnestly or solemnly, affirm positively |
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Assiduous |
Constant, unremitting |
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Benighted |
Intellectually or morally ignorant; unenlightened Overtaken by darkness or night |
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Boletus |
Any mushroom like fungus of the genus boletus |
