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53 Cards in this Set

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Adibe

To put up with

Abject

Wretched, pitiful

Adhere

To follow devoutly

Aesthetic

Artistic, related to the appreciation of beauty

Anarchist

One who wants to eliminate all government

Apprehend

To seize, arrest

Arboreal

Of or relating to trees

Astute

Very clever, crafty

Blemish

An imperfection or flaw

Burnish

To polish, shine

Cerebral

Related to the intellect

Clergy

Members of Christian holy orders

Collateral

Security for a debt

Compress

To apply pressure, squeeze together

Consign

To give something over to another's care

Consultation

An act of comforting

Contentious

Having a tendency to quarrel or dispute

Deface

To ruin or injure something's appearance


Deleterious

Harmful

Dirge

A mournful song, especially for a funeral

Disheartened

Feeling a loss of spirit of morale

Dissemble

To conceal, fake

Emaciated

Very thin, enfeeble looking

Enfranchise

To grant the vote to

Fecund

Fruitful, fertile

Felicitous

Delightful, pleasing

Forsake

To give up, renounce

Grandiloquence

Lofty, pompous language

Hallowed

Revered, consecrated

Implement

To put into effect, to institute

Incarnate

existing in the flesh, embodied

Incendiary

A person who agitates

Integral

Necessary for completeness

Latent

Hidden, capable of being exposed

Morass

A wet swampy big, figuratively, something that traps and confuses

Nascent

In the process of being born or coming into existent

Obscure

Unclear, partially hidden

Oration

A speech delivered in a formal or ceremonious matter

Ostentatious

Excessively showy, glitzy

Perspicacity

Shrewdness, perceptiveness

Platitude

An uninspired remark, cliche

Proscribe

To condemn, outlaw

Prurient

Eliciting or possessing an extraordinary interested in sex

Renunciation

To reject

Repulse

To push back

Reputable

A good reputation

Sedetary

Sitting, settled

Submissive

Easily yielding to authority

Trite

Not original, overused

Turpitude

Depravity, moral corruption

Validate

To confirm, support, corroborate

Vindicate

To avenge, free from allegations, to set free

Wizened

Dry, shrunken wrinkled