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16 Cards in this Set
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Omniscient |
all-knowing; having infinite wisdom |
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Onerous |
burdensome; oppressive |
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Opague |
impossible to see through; impossible to understand |
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Opprobrious |
damning; extremely critical; disgraceful |
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Opulent |
luxurious |
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Ordinance |
law; regulation; decree |
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Orthodox |
conventional; adhering to established principles or doctrines, especially in religion; by the book |
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Oscillate |
to swing back and forth; to pulsate; to waver or vacillate between beliefs or ideas |
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Osmosis |
gradual or suble absorption |
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Ostensible |
apparent (but misleading); professed |
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Ostentatious |
excessively conspicuous; showing off |
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Ostracize |
to shun; to shut out or exclude a person from a group |
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Oust |
to eject; to expel; to banish |
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Override |
to overrule; to prevail over |
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Overture |
opening move; preliminary offer |
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Oxymoron |
a figure of speech in which two contradictory words or phrases are used together |
