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8 Cards in this Set
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Looking forward
(I'm looking forward to this) |
auguries, bode
harbinger, portent presage, prescient prognosis, prognosticate |
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Humor
(You have to keep your sense of humor) |
badinage, japing
jocose, jocular jollity, levity mirth, puckish ribald, risible twit, wag |
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Sad
(It's a sad day when you don't know your vocabulary) |
bereft, contrite
doleful, dour jeremiad, lachrymose lugubrious, maudlin saturnine, Weltschmerz |
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Say
(That's easy for you to say) |
declaim, exhort
persiflage, philippic pontificate, prolix raconteur, stentorian tergiversate, voluble |
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Boring
(Just how boring is this vocabulary?) |
banal, bromide
ennui, hackneyed listless, platitude prosaic, somniferous soporific, tedious trite, vapid |
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Guts
(It takes a lot of guts to know these words) |
audacity, doughty
effrontery, impudent intrepid, redoubtable uncowed, undaunted |
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Praise
(Hip, hip, hooray! Words of praise) |
accolade, encomium
eulogy, extol kudos, laud obsequious, paean panegyric, plaudits sycophant, toady |
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Death
(Are you sick to death of vocabulary?) |
cadaver, demise
dirge, elegy insalubrious, morbid noxious, obsequies valetudinarian, wan |
