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22 Cards in this Set
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dire
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Warning of or having dreadful or terrible consequences
Urgent; desperate: in dire need; dire poverty. |
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accede
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To give one's consent, often at the insistence of another
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vernacular
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The standard native language of a country or locality.
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refractory
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Obstinately resistant to authority or control; unruly
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bowdlerize
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To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
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fervent
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Having or showing great emotion or zeal; enthusiastic
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denizen
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An inhabitant; a resident
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paramount
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Of chief concern or importance
Supreme in rank, power, or authority |
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dichotomy
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Division into two usually contradictory parts or opinions
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pragmatic
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Dealing or concerned with facts or actual occurrences; practical
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draconian
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Exceedingly harsh; very severe
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hector
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A bully
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saturnine
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Melancholy or sullen.
Having or marked by a tendency to be bitter or sardonic: a saturnine expression on his face. |
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sybarite
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a person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses
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martinet
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One who demands absolute adherence to forms and rules.
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specious
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plausible but false
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qualm
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doubt; An uneasy feeling about the propriety or rightness of a course of action
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boorish
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Rude; ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance
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Supine
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sluggishly inactive
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brusque
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discourteous and abrupt
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incipient
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Beginning to exist or appear
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mendacity
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The condition of being mendacious; untruthfulness.
A lie; a falsehood. |
