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20 Cards in this Set
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pastoral
Pastoral pastures are populated by plethoras of landscape painters. |
rural, peaceful
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Labyrinthine
--a Labyrinthine path |
winding
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laud
(remember your Latin roots) |
praise
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legerdemain
lah' jer duh mayn' |
slight of hand
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lucrative
It was a lucrative business deal |
profitable
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trangress
Thou saidst, I will not transgress. |
to sin, to break a law
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Vilify
He tried to vilify the other contestant. |
slander (speak of in an untrue way to make person look bad)
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Verbose
The salesman was verbose. |
wordy, extremely talkative
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vacuous
The room was filled with vacuous chatter. |
empty, trivial
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tryst
Romeo and Juliet planned a tryst |
an appointed meeting for lovers
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defunct
That model of computer is defunct. |
extinct, ended
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Dearth
The was a dearth of humor in the talent show. |
scarcity
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eschew
I will eschew the muskrat stew! |
avoid
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innate
Judah has an innate desire to play video games |
inborn
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foreboding
A feeling of foreboding settled upon the room. |
apprehension, anxiety
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discursive
His reasoning was discursive |
rambling, circuitous
(think of curve rather than straight to the point) |
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extraneous
That is extraneous infomration. |
irrelavent, (extra + unneeded)
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fabricate
He fabricated an allibi. |
to make, lie
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jaded
After 6 months as a recording artist, the vocalist became jaded about the recording industry. |
fed up, bored, exhausted by overwork
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insipid
Mommy thinks that ordinary American food is insipid. |
dull
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