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50 Cards in this Set
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1: aberrant
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Abnormal or deviant
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2: abeyance
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Suspended action
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3: abscond
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Depart secretly and hide
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4: abstemious
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Sparing in eating and drinking; temperate
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5: admonish
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Warn or speak to with gentle disapproval; reprove
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6: amalgamate
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(Of societies or groups) combine; unite in one body
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7: antipathy
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Aversion; dislike or opposition
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8: approbation*
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Approval
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9: artless*
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Without guile; open and honest
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10: assiduous
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Diligent
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11: assuage
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Make less severe; ease or lessen (pain); satisfy (hunger); soothe (anger)
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12: attenuate
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Make thin; weaken
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13: …ous
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14: austere
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Forbiddingly stern; ascetic; without comfort or enjoyment; severely simple and unornamented; Ex. a monk's austere life; Ex. austere grandeur of the cathedral; n. austerity
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15: aver
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State confidently; declare as true
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16: belie
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Contradict; give a false impression; disguise; Ex. The poor sales belied our high hopes; Ex. Her smile belies her true feeling of displeasure.
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17: boorish
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Rude; insensitive
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18: burgeon
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Grow rapidly; grow forth; send out buds; Ex. burgeoning computer industry; CF. bludgeon
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19: burnish
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Make shiny by rubbing; polish
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20: buttress
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Support; prop up; n. stationary structure to support wall; Ex. flying buttress
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21: cacophonous
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Discordant; inharmonious; n. cacophony: unpleasant mixture of loud sounds
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22: castigation
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Punishment; severe criticism or disapproval
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23: ...
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24: coda
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Concluding section of a musical or literary composition
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25: cogent
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Convincing
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26: compendium
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Brief, comprehensive summary; adj. compendious
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27: contentious
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Quarrelsome; controversial; likely to cause arguments
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28: contrite
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Penitent; repentant; n. contrition
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29: craven
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Cowardly
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30: denigrate
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Blacken; defame
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31: deride
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Ridicule; treat with contempt; make fun of; OP. respect
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32: desultory
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Aimless; haphazard; digressing at random
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33: diffidence
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Shyness; lack of self-confidence; timidity; adj. diffident
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34: dirge
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Funeral song; slow mournful piece of music (sung over a dead person)
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35: dis..
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36: disparage
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Belittle
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37: disparate
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Basically different; impossible to compare; unrelated
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38: distend
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Expand; swell out
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39: ebullient
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Showing excitement; overflowing with enthusiasm; boiling; n. ebullience; n. ebullition: state of boiling
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40: efficacy
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Power to produce desired effect; adj. efficacious: effectual
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41: effrontery
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Rudeness without any sense of shame; shameless boldness; presumptousness; nerve; cheek
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42: elegy
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Poem or song expressing lamentation (for the dead); adj. elegiacal, elegiac
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43: elicit [not illicit]
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Draw out fact or information (by discussion or from someone)
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44: enervate
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Weaken; take away energy from
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45: ephemeral
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Short-lived; fleeting
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46: equanimity
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Calmness of temperament; composure
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47: erudite
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(Of a person or book) learned; full of learning; scholarly; n. erudition
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48: exculpate
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Clear from blame or guilt
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49: exigency
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Urgent situation; adj. exigent
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50: fatuous
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Smugly and unconsciously foolish; inane; silly; n. fatuity, fatuousness
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