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105 Cards in this Set
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abut
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to touch the end or boundary line
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accost
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to speak to
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accouter
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to dress
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acerbity
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sourness, bitterness
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Achillean
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invulnerable
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actuary
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insurance officer
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actuate
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move to action
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addendum
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something to be added
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adamant
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any substance of exceeding hardness or inpenetrability
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addle
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make inefficient or worthless, muddle
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adduce
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bring forward for consideration
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adieu inter
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Good bye, farewell
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adjudge
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award by formal decision
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adjuration
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a vehement appeal
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adjutant
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Auxilary
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admonition
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gentle reprimand
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advert
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to refer incidentally
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aeronaut
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one who navigates the air, a baloonist.
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aerostat
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any apparatus floating or sustained by the air.
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aerostatics
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the branch of pneumatics that treats of the equilibrium, pressure, and mechanical properties
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affectation
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a studied attempt.
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aggress
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to make first attack
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aide-de-camp
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an officer who receives and transmits the orders of the general
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albeit
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even though
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albino
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a person with milky white skin and hair, and eyes with bright red pupil and usually pink iris.
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alder
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any shrub or small tree of the genus alumnus, of the oak family.
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alderman
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a member of a municipal legislative body, who usually exercises also certain judicial functions.
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allay
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calm the violence, mitigate
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allude
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refer by suggestion
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alluvion
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flood
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altercate
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to contend angrily or zealously in words
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amalgam
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an alloy of mercury and another metal
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amatory
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designed to excite love
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amenable
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willing to submit
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amour
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illicit love afair
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ampere
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unit of electric-current strength
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anhydrous
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withered
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animadversion
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the utterance of criticism or censure
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anode
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the point where or path by which a voltaic current enters and electrolyte or the like
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antechamber
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a waiting room for those who seek audience
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antedate
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assign a date earlier than actual one
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antemeridian
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before noon
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antemundane
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time before creation of earth
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anthracite
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hard coal
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antilogy
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inconsistency in ideas
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antiphon
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a response or alteration of responses, generally musical
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antiphony
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an anthem or other composition sung responsively
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antipodes
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place or region on the opposite side of earth
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antiquate
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to make out of date
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antistrophe
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the inversion of terms in successive classes.
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aphorism
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proverb
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apogee
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climax
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apostate
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false
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apothecary
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one who keeps drugs for sale and puts up prescriptions
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apotheosis
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deification
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apposite
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appropriate
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apposition
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act of placing side by side
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approbation
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sanction
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arbiter
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chosen one by mutual consent of parties in dispute to decide matters
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arboreal
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pertaining to tree
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arrant
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notoriously bad
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arrear
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something overdue unpaid
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arrogate
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take, especially without grounds.
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artesian well
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a very deep well. Water rises due to underground pressure
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askance
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with a side or indirect glance or meaning
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asperity
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harshness of temper
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assay
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the chemical analysis of an alloy ore
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attache
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a subordinate member of a diplomatic embassy
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augur
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to predict
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aural
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pertaining to ear
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auriferous
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containing gold
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auspice
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protecting guidence
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autarchy
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unrestricted power
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aver
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assert as fact
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avidity
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greediness
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barring
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apart from
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batten
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narrow strip of wood
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bedlam
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madhouse
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bellicose
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warlike
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benefice
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church treasury
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berth
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train cot
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beset
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attack on all sides
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bestrew
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to cover or sprinkle with strewn things
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betimes
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in good season or time
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bibulous
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fond of drinking
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bier
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a horizontal framework with two handles at each end for carrying corpse to grave.
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bight
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a slightly receding bay between headlands.
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blase
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sated with pleasure
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blazon
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make widely known
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blithe
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joyous
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ble
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the trunk or body of tree
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boll
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a round pod or seed-capsule
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bombardier
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a person in charge of mortars, bombs, shells
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boorish
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rude
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borough
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an incorporated village or town
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Bowdlerize
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to expurgate in editing by omitting words or passages
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bowler
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in cricket, the player who delivers ball
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brae
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hillside
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bravado
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agressive display of boldness
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bray
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loud harsh sound, like cry of an ass or the blast of horn.
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braze
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decorate with brass.
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brazier
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an open pan or basin for holding live coals
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breaker
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one who trains horses, dogs
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bric-a-brac
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objects of curiosity or for decoration
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brigand
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one who lives by robbery and plunder.
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