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43 Cards in this Set
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anodyne
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ANODYNE = soothing
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asperity
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ASPERITY =
harshness or severity |
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astringent
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ASTRINGENT =
harsh or severe |
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avarice
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AVARICE = greed
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axiom
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AXIOM =
universally recognized principle |
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axiomatic
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AXIOMATIC =
having self-evident truth or taken as a given |
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bucolic
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BUCOLIC =
rustic or pastoral |
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cavil
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CAVIL =
to find fault without reason |
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chimera
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CHIMERA =
an illusion (originally a fire breathing she monster) |
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contiguous
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CONTIGUOUS =
adjacent or bordering |
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derision
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DERISION =
ridicule or scorn |
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didactic
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DIDACTIC =
intended to teach |
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excoriate
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EXCORIATE =
to censure scathingly, severly criticize or to UPBRAID |
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execrate
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EXECRATE =
to curse, feel loathing for, declare as evil |
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fractious
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FRACTIOUS =
troublesome, irritable |
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hedonist
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HEDONIST =
one who believes in pleasure as humans' primary pursuit |
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hubris
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HUBRIS = arrogance
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ineluctable
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INELUCTABLE =
inevitable or certain |
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insouciant
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INSOUCIANT =
carefree, unconcerned, heedless |
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mendicant
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MENDICANT =
a beggar or supplicant |
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minatory
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MINATORY = menacing
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nonplussed
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NONPLUSSED = baffled
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odious
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ODIOUS = instilling hatred
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panegyric
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PANEGYRIC =
formal praise, eulogy, encomium |
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pellucid
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PELLLUCID =
clear, easily intelligible |
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pernicious
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PERNICIOUS =
extremely harmful or destructive |
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plangent
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PLANGENT =
pounding, thundering, resounding |
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preen
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PREEN =
to dress up or to primp |
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prescient
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PRESCIENT =
to have foreknowledge of events |
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prosaic
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PROSAIC =
plain, lacking liveliness |
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quail
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QUAIL =
to lose courage |
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refulgent
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REFULGENT =
shiny, radiant, brilliant |
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renege
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RENEGE =
to go back on a promise |
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salutary
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SALUTARY =
remedial, wholesome, causing improvement |
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spurious
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SPURIOUS =
false, counterfeit |
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static
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STATIC =
not active, at rest, dormant |
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stymie
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STYMIE =
to block, thwart |
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synthesis
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SYNTHESIS =
the combination of parts to make a whole |
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torque
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TORQUE =
a force that causes rotation |
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untenable
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UNTENABLE =
not viable, uninhabitable or indefensible |
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vitiate
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VITIATE =
to spoil, corrupt or debase |
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voluble
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VOLUBLE = fluent, verbal
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wag
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WAG =
a joker or a "wit" aka sethi |
