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22 Cards in this Set
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Embezzle(verb) |
steal or misappropriate (money placed in one's trust or belonging to the organization for which one works). "she had embezzled $5,600,000 in company funds" synonyms: misappropriate, steal, thieve, pilfer, purloin, appropriate, defraud someone of, siphon off, pocket, help oneself to; More |
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Pamper(verb) |
inflections: pampers, pampering, pampered transitive verb If you pamper someone, you make them feel comfortable by doing things for them or giving them expensive or luxurious things. Why don't you let your mother pamper you for a while? Pamper yourself with our luxury gifts. pampered adjective ...today's pampered superstars. |
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squander(verb) |
If you squander money, resources, or opportunities, you waste them. Hobbs didn't squander his money on flashy cars or other vices. to spend or use (money, time, etc.) extravagantly or wastefully (often followed by away ). to scatter. —noun
extravagant or wasteful expenditure. |
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Decipher(verb) |
If you decipher a piece of writing or a message, you work out what it says, even though it is very difficult to read or understand. I'm still no closer to deciphering the code.
to discover the meaning of (anything obscure or difficult to trace or understand): to decipher hieroglyphics.
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verb: figure out, understand, break down |
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Verdict (noun) |
inflections: verdicts count noun In a court of law, the verdict is the decision that is given by the jury or judge at the end of a trial. The jury returned a unanimous guilty verdict. Someone's verdict on something is their opinion of it, after thinking about it or investigating it. The doctor's verdict was that he was entirely healthy. |
noun: law judgment
adjudication answer arbitrament award conclusion decision |
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Despise (verb) |
inflections: despises, despising, despised transitive verb If you despise something or someone, you dislike them and have a very low opinion of them. I can never, ever forgive him. I despise him.
to regard with contempt, distaste, disgust, or disdain; scorn; loathe. |
look down on |
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Defy (verb) |
If you defy someone or something that is trying to make you behave in a particular way, you refuse to obey them and behave in that way. This was the first (and last) time that I dared to defy my mother. If you defy someone to do something, you challenge them to do it when you think that they will be unable to do it or too frightened to do it. I defy you to come up with one major accomplishment of the current president. |
confront, challenge, frustrate |
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molt (verb) |
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(of birds, insects, reptiles, etc.) to cast or shed the feathers, skin, or the like, that will be replaced by a new growth. —verb (used with object)
to cast or shed (feathers, skin, etc.) in the process of renewal.
inflections: molts, molting, molted intransitive verb When an animal or bird molts, it gradually loses its coat or feathers so that a new coat or feathers can grow. Like most aquatic insects, mayflies molt as they grow. |
verb: shed
cast off decorticate doff exuviate peel pull off slough take off |
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Drab (adjective) |
inflections: drabber, drabbest adjective If you describe something as drab , you think that it is dull and boring to look at or experience. ...his drab little office. drabness uncount noun ...the dusty drabness of nearby villages. |
adjective: dull, colorless
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complexion (noun) |
When you refer to someone's complexion, you are referring to the natural color or condition of the skin on their face. She had short brown hair and a pale complexion. |
noun: skin coloring, appearance
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tattered ( adjective ) |
adjective If something such as clothing or a book is tattered, it is damaged or torn, especially because it has been used a lot over a long period of time. He fled wearing only a sarong and a tattered shirt. |
adjective: shredded
badly dressed badly worn battered broken dilapidated frayed frazzled full of holes |
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shiver (verb) |
When you shiver, your body shakes slightly because you are cold or frightened. He shivered in the cold. |
to shake or tremble with cold, fear, excitement, etc. |
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Mutilate ( verb ) |
to injure, disfigure, or make imperfect by removing or irreparably damaging parts: Vandals mutilated the painting. to deprive (a person or animal) of a limb or other essential part.
If something is mutilated, it is deliberately damaged or spoiled. Brecht's verdict was that his screenplay had been mutilated. |
verb: maim, damage
adulterate amputate batter bowdlerize butcher cripple crush cut to pieces cut up deface disable disfigure |
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delude (Verb) |
inflections: deludes, deluding, deluded transitive verb If you delude yourself, you let yourself believe that something is true, even though it is not true. The president was deluding himself if he thought he was safe from such action. We delude ourselves that we are in control. To delude someone into thinking something means to make them believe what is not true. Television deludes you into thinking you have experienced reality, when you haven't. |
verb: deceive, fool
beguile betray bluff caboodle cheat |
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Flit (verb) |
inflections: flits, flitting, flitted intransitive verb If you flit around or flit between one place and another, you go to lots of places without staying for very long in any of them. Laura flits about New York hailing taxis at every opportunity. If someone flits from one thing or situation to another, they move or turn their attention from one to the other very quickly. He's prone to flit between subjects with amazing ease. If something such as a bird or a bat flits about, it flies quickly from one place to another. ...the parrot that flits from tree to tree. |
verb: flutter, move rapidly
dance dart flash fleet flicker float fly hover |
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Exertion (noun) |
1. physical or mental effort. "she was panting with the exertion" synonyms: effort, strain, struggle, toil, endeavor, hard work, labor; literarytravail "she was panting with exertion" 2. the application of a force, influence, or quality. "the exertion of authority" synonyms: use, application, exercise, employment, utilization "the exertion of pressure" |
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Pant (verb) |
inflections: pants, panting, panted intransitive verb If you pant, you breathe quickly and loudly with your mouth open, because you have been doing something energetic. She climbed rapidly until she was panting with the effort. |
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scrutinize (verb) |
inflections: scrutinizes, scrutinizing, scrutinized transitive verb If you scrutinize something, you examine it very carefully, often to find out some information from it or about it. Her purpose was to scrutinize his features to see if he was an honest man. |
to examine in detail with careful or critical attention. |
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mischievous ( adjective ) |
A mischievous person likes to have fun by playing harmless tricks on people or doing things they are not supposed to do. She rocks back and forth on her chair like a mischievous child. mischievously adverb Kathryn winked mischievously. A mischievous act or suggestion is intended to cause trouble. "I have a few mischievous plans," says Zevon. mischievously adverb That does not require "massive" military intervention, as some have mischievously claimed. |
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maliciously or playfully annoying. causing annoyance, harm, or trouble. roguishly or slyly teasing, as a glance. harmful or injurious. |
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Sullen ( adjective ) |
adjective Someone who is sullen is bad-tempered and does not speak much. The offenders lapsed into a sullen silence.
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showing irritation or ill humor by a gloomy silence or reserve. persistently and silently ill-humored; morose. indicative of gloomy ill humor. gloomy or dismal, as weather or a sound. sluggish, as a stream. Obsolete. malignant, as planets or influences. |
adjective: brooding, upset
bad-tempered |
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Abstain ( verb ) |
—verb (used without object)
to hold oneself back voluntarily, especially from something regarded as improper or unhealthy (usually followed by from ): to abstain from eating meat. to refrain from casting one's vote: a referendum in which two delegates abstained. |
verb: hold back from doing
abjure abnegate avoid cease constrain |
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Patch up ( phrasal verb ) |
phrasal verb If you patch up an argument or relationship, you try to be friendly again and not to argue anymore. She has gone on vacation with her husband to try to patch up their marriage. France patched things up with New Zealand. If you patch up something that is damaged, you repair it or patch it. We can patch up those holes. If doctors patch someone up or patch their wounds up, they treat their injuries. ...the medical staff who patched her up after the accident. |
verb: settle differences
adjust appease bury the hatchet compensate conciliate |
