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42 Cards in this Set
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alloy
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ALLOY =
to make impure |
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amenable
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AMENABLE = agreeable
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anathema
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ANATHEMA =
religious curse or something loathed |
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apogee
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APOGEE =
zenith or culmination |
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apostate
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APOSTATE =
one who abandons long-held religious or political beliefs |
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captious
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CAPTIOUS =
pointing out trivial faults |
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censure
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CENSURE =
to severely criticize |
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chary
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CHARY =
wary or cautious |
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culpable
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CULPABLE =
deserving blame |
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denouement
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DENOUEMENT =
an outcome or unraveling of plot |
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descry
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DESCRY =
to discriminate or discern |
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diaphanous
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DIAPHANOUS =
light, airy, transparent |
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encomium
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ENCOMIUM =
glowing praise, panegyric, tribute, elegy |
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ennui
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ENNUI =
boredom, weariness |
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eschew
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ESCHEW =
to shun or avoid |
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filibuster
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FILIBUSTER =
intentional obstruction, esp. prolonged speechmaking to delay political action |
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fortuitous
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FORTUITOUS =
happening by accident or chance |
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germane
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GERMANE =
relevant to the subject at hand |
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halcyon
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HALCYON =
calm and peaceful |
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hegemony
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HEGEMONY =
domination over others |
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impunity
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IMPUNITY =
immunity from punishment |
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incipient
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INCIPIENT =
beginning to be or to become apparent |
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inimical
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INIMICAL = hostile
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inimitable
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INIMITABLE =
one of a kind |
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martial
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MARTIAL =
associated with war or the armed forces |
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meet
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MEET =
fitting or proper |
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nebulous
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NEBULOUS =
cloudy or vaguely defined |
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obstreperous
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OBSTREPEROUS =
noisy or unruly |
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neologism
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NEOLOGISM =
a new word or expression |
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palliate
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PALLIATE =
to reduce in severity |
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pedestrian
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PEDESTRIAN =
commonplace, trite, quotidian |
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perspicacity
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PERSPICACITY = shrewdness
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pith
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PITH =
the essential or central part |
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pithy
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PITHY =
concisely meaningful |
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predilection
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PREDILECTION = preference
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profligate
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PROFLIGATE =
extravagant or dissolute |
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querulous
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QUERELOUS =
complaining, whiny |
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rancor
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RANCOR =
bitter resentment |
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sententious
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SENTENTIOUS =
moralistic or aphorisitc, epigrammatic, tending to moralize excessively |
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solvent
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SOLVENT =
to meet financial obligations or able to dissolve another substance |
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tortuous
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TORTUOUS =
windy or excessively complicated |
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salacious
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SALACIOUS =
lustful or lascivious |
