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75 Cards in this Set
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Abscond |
to leave secretly, escape |
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Aberrant |
deviating from norm |
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Alacrity |
eager willingness |
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Approbation |
an expression of approval/praise |
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Arduous |
req significant effort |
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Assuage |
ease/lessen; pacify/satisfy |
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Audacious |
daring/bold |
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Austere |
bare, severely simple |
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Axiomatic |
possessing self-evident truth |
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Canonical |
in agreement with accepted, traditional standards |
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Capricious |
change one's mind impulsively |
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Censure |
Criticize severely/officially rebuke |
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Chicanery |
trickery |
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Connoisseur |
expert in matters of taste |
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Convoluted |
complex/complicated |
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Disabuse |
to set right |
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Discordant |
conflicting |
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Disparate |
dissimilar |
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Effrontery |
extreme boldness |
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Eloquent |
well-spoken, articulate |
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Enervate |
to weaken |
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Ennui |
dissatisfaction from boredom or apathy |
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Equivocate |
to use ambiguous language w/ deceptive intent |
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Erudite |
very learned, scholarly |
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Exculpate |
to clear of blame |
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Exigent |
urgent, req immediate attention |
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Extemporaneous |
improvise, without preparation |
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Filibuster |
intentional obstruction |
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Fulminate |
loudly attack or denounce |
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Ingenuous |
lacking in sophistication |
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Inured |
accustomed to accepting something undesirable |
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Irascible |
easily angered |
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Laud |
praise highly |
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Lucid |
clear/easily understood |
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Magnanimity |
generously noble in heart, esp. in forgiving |
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Martial |
associated w/ war & armed forces |
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Mundane |
typical of or ordinary |
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Nascent |
coming into being |
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Nebulous |
vague/cloudy |
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Neologism |
new word, expression or usage |
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Noxious |
harmful/injurious |
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Obtuse |
not clear in thought or expression |
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Obviate |
to anticipate and make unnecessary |
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Onerous |
troubling, burdensome |
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Paean |
Song of praise/thanks |
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Parody |
humorous imitation intended for ridicule |
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Perennial |
recurrent through the year/years; happening repeatedly |
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Perfidy |
deceitfulness |
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Perfunctory |
cursory/done with out care |
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Perspicacious |
ready insight & understanding |
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Prattle |
babble meaninglessly |
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Precipitate |
to cause or happen b4 anticipated |
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Predilection |
preference |
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Prescience |
foreknowledge of events |
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Prevaricate |
deliberately avoid truth |
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Qualms |
misgivings/doubts |
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Recant |
to retract, esp. a previous held belief |
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Refute |
disprove, successfully argue against |
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Relegate |
forcibly assign, esp. to a lower position |
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Reticent |
quiet, reserved |
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Solicitous |
concerned/attentive, eager |
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Sordid |
sleazy, filthy |
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Sporadic |
occuring only occasionally |
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Squander |
to waste irresponsibly |
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Static |
not moving or active |
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Stupefy |
to stun or baffle |
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Stymie |
to block, thwart |
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Synthesis |
combo of parts to make a whole |
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Torque |
force that causes rotation |
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Tortuous |
twisting/ excessively complicated |
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Truculent |
fierce/cruel, eager to fight |
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Veracity |
truthfulness, honesty |
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Virulent |
extremely harmful, bitterly hostile/antagonistic |
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Voracious |
having a insatiable(impossible to satisfy) appetite |
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Waver |
to sway, to be unsettled in opinion |
