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15 Cards in this Set
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Commendation
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N.
a praise, a recommendation syn: adulation, acclamation, accolade |
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Insipid
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Adj.
Dull; vapid; lacking flavor or zest (whether food or talk) syn: bland, weak |
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To Inure
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V.
To hhabituate to something esp. by prolonged subjection; accustom syn: to adapt, to accustom |
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To Cull
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V.
To pick out from others; select syn: To choose, to select |
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Impiety
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N.
the quality or state of lacking holiness esp. God Syn: blasphemy, irreverance |
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Covetous
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Adj.
Excessively and culpably desirous of the possesions of others; greed for something someone else posseses syn: jealous, enviousness, avaricious |
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Inimitable
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Adj. defying imitation; matchless (not capable of being imitated or matched)
syn: one of a kind, incomparable |
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Malignity
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N.
Intense ill-will or hatred; great malice; an act or feelign of freat malice (dangerous or can cause death) syn: an evil,rancor |
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Discourse
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N.
Verbal expression in speech or WRITING syn: speech, oration |
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Importuning
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Verbal
Besetting someone with insistent, repreated requests syn: whining, pleading, begging |
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Promiscuously
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Adv.
Lacking standards of selection; indiscriminate (casually without plan or purpose) syn: casually, randomly, |
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Calamitious
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Adj.
Causing or involving calamirt; disastrous (causing or bringing trouble) syn: dire, traumatic |
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Expedient
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Adj. (or n.)
Used for the means to an end syn: solution, substitution |
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Scrupulous
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Adj.
Conscientious and exact; painstaking (Characterize to what is right or proper) syn: honest, correct |
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to Digress
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V.
to turn aside from the main subject syn: diverge, stray, deviate |
