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12 Cards in this Set
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Contraband |
Def: smuggled
Ex: The soldiers marched into the slums in search of contraband goods. |
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Epoch |
Def: period of time
Ex: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of unbelief. |
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Nondescript |
Def: no particular kind
Ex: These were the times when you could not tell who, from the landlord to lowest stable, nondescript, was an honest man and who was a criminal. |
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Adjure |
Def: to appeal to; to charge
Ex: With a hurried adjuration that his passengers be on the alert the guard readied his rifle and stood on the offensive. |
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Cessation |
Def: a ceasing, a stopping
Ex: The stillness, consequent on the cessation of the rumbling and laboring of the coach, added to the stillness of the night, and made it very quiet indeed. |
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Soliloquy |
Def: a monologue
Ex: The guard, mumbling to himself a gruff soliloquy, eyed with suspicion the conversation between his passenger and the messenger. |
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Expeditiously |
Def: efficiently, with rapid action
Ex: While he was gone, his fellow passengers had expeditiously secreted their wallets and watches in their boots. |
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Inexorable |
Def: inflexible, willfully immovable
Ex: The inexorable fact of the existence of god can not overcome by any man's own theories. |
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Inscrutable |
Def: unexaminable; incomprehensible
Ex: The inscrutable secrets of many men's minds go with them to their graves. |
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Evince |
Def: show
Ex: The messenger rode back at an easy trot, stopping often to drink, but evincing a tendency to keep his own counsel. |
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Opiate |
Def: a narcotic
Ex: Like the presence of pain under an opiate, the events of the past days ere always with him |
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Cadaverous |
Def: ghastly
Ex: The face of the old man was a cadaverous color. |
