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48 Cards in this Set
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Austere |
Simple, plain; Not Fancy |
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Burgeon
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To grow or develop quickly
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Cursory
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Done or made quickly
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dynamic |
always acting/changing |
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extravagant |
more than usual proper necessary, fancy |
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gourmand |
person who loves to eat/drink |
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histrionic |
too emotional/dramatic |
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irascible |
easily angered/ having bad temper |
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juxtapose |
to place different things together to create an interesting effect or to show similarity/differences |
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Luminesence |
creation of light of processes that do not require heat |
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Myriad |
very large number of things |
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Noxious |
harmful to living things |
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ostracize |
to not allow someone to be included in a group/excluded |
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Putrid |
decaying usually bad or disgusting smell (unpleasant) |
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quotidian |
ordinary/ very common |
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Rustic |
of or relating to countryside |
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synopsis |
summary/outline |
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truculent |
easily annoyed or angered likely to argue |
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upbraid |
to speak in an angry/critical way to someone who has done something wrong |
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voluptuary |
a person whose chief interests are luxury and gratification of sensual appetites |
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winsome |
cheerful pleasant appealing |
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zeitgeist |
general beliefs ideas and spirit of a time and place |
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Augment |
to increase the size or amount |
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buffet |
to hit something with great force several times |
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credulity |
ability or willingness to believe something |
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dutiful |
doing what is expected of you |
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extol |
to praise someone/something highly |
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foster |
to help something grow or develop |
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heirarchy |
a group that controls and organization and is divided into different levels |
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inveterate |
always or often doing something specific |
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judicious |
having/showing good judgement |
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lull |
to cause to fall asleep; brief time when action/activity stops |
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myopic |
lacking imagination |
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novel |
new or different of what has been known before; or long written story usually about imaginary characters/events |
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oration |
formal speech |
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winsome |
cheerful pleasant appealing |
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purport |
main general meaning of something |
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quid pro |
something for something |
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ruse |
a trick or act used to fool someone |
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sympathy |
a feeling of support for someone/something |
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trite |
not interesting of effective due to over use |
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Unveil |
to show/reveal something to someone for the 1st time |
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voluminous |
very large; containing lots of space |
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whet |
make sharper/stronger |
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audacious |
very confident and daring |
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transcendentalist |
1820-1830 people who are nature minded emerson thoreau |
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romanticism |
1800-1850 |
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self reliance |
1841 |
