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30 Cards in this Set

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Courtesan
noun
prostitute with a noble or wealthy clientele
Subservient
adj.
servile; excessively submissive; obsequious
Supple
adj.
flexible; characterized by ease, responsive, and adaptability in mental action
Indolent
adj.
lazy
Assiduous
adj.
industrious; energetic
Ennui
noun
boredom
Insipid
adj.
uninteresting; tasteless; dull
Acquisitiveness
noun
tending or seeking to acquire and own, often greedily; eager to get wealth, possessions
Inertia
noun
inertness, especially with regard to effort, motion, action and the like; inactivity; sluggishness
Servile
adj.
obedient to a slavish extent; slavishly submissive or obsequious fawning
Presentiment
noun
strong intuition
Transitoriness
noun
not lasting, enduring, permanent, or eternal; evanescence
Exhortation
noun
an utterance, discourse, or address conveying urgent advice or recommendations; warning
Equanimity
noun
mental or emotional stability or composure, especially under tension or strain; calmness
Communicable
adj.
able to be taught or told
Erudition
noun
knowledge acquired by study, research, etc.; learning, scholarship
Dispelled
verb
to rid one's mind of; to drive away or off by or as if by scattering
Senile
adj.
weak or dotting from old age
Serenity
noun
great calm; perfect peace
Recurred
verb
to happen again or repeatedly
Tenacity
noun
stubborn refusal to yield
Perplexity
noun
puzzlement or confusion
Pallid
adj.
extremely pale
Precocious
adj.
unusually advanced or mature in development, especially mental development; prematurely developed, as in the mind
Futile
adj.
vain; useless
Expiation
noun
act of making reparation for sin
Unfathomable
adj.
difficult or impossible to understand
Respite
noun
temporary intermission or rest
Palliative
adj.
something that can lessen pain or cure disease
Ostracized
verb
excluded