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48 Cards in this Set
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Malevolent
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Evil
MALE volent males are evil |
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Diminuitive
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small or little
diMINUItive mini |
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Contentious
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quarrelsome, argumentative
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Relic
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something from the past, an artifact from the past
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Morbid
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gloomy, gross, gruesome
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taut
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tense, tight, strained
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Perish
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to die
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Infallible
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trustworth, never fails, sure
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Amiably
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in a friendly way, sociable
Aunt Sarah's friend AMI is amiable. |
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Stealthy
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sneaky, secret, covert
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Impudent
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rude or disrespectful
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Bovine
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cowlike, stupid, dull
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Purloined
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Stolen
The PURSE was PURLOINED |
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Ambled
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walked around slowly or aimlessly
rAMBLED around |
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Assuaged
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soothed, relieved
the baby's ASS was chapped so the mother ASSUAGED (soothed) the pain with some cream. |
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Taciturn
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silent, doesn't speak a lot
I am so taciTURN I don't even speak when it is my turn |
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Indigenous
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originating in, native
I DIG IN the INDIGENous soil that is native to my home |
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Apoplectic
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so angry they might have a stroke
He was so aPOPlectic, I thought his head might POP |
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Obscurely
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hard to understand, not clear
I couldn't CURE the fog in my head so everything seemed obsCURE and hard to understand. |
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Austere
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severe or stern
Austen's teacher was so stern and auSTERe |
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Prerogative
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right or special privilige
GIVE me my preroGatIVE GIVE me my rights!! |
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Formidable
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Strong, Powerful, Awe-Inspiring
his giant FORM was so FORMIDABLE that we were scared by his shadow |
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Adamant
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stubborn, unyielding
ADAM is so stubborn, he always wants his way. |
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Gait
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a manner of walking, stepping or skipping
He had a happy GAIT as he skipped through the GATE |
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Honed
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Sharpened
you don't need a HONED knife to spread HONEy! |
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Inevitable
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unable to be avoided
I will NEVer be ABLE to avoid this english test. It is INEVitABLE |
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Cudgel
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a stick or club or bat
He conked me over the head with a cudgel |
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Maxim
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a principle, saying or general rule
"The earlybird gets the worm" is a MAXIM we hear a MAXIMUM number of times |
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Impudence
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Boldness, shamelessness, offensive
the IMPURE children didn't care if they were bothering the old people with their IMPUDENCE |
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In vain
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tried without success
we tried in vain to learn all the vocabulary words in one night. |
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Emaciated
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thin, skinny
EMMA was EMAciated after she went on survivor |
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Vestige
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a trace of something
his VEST had a VESTige of ketchup on it so I knew he had been eating hot dogs |
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Lacerated
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cut, wounded
the blood poured through the LACE on her shirt when she was LACErated with a knife |
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Commenced
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started, began
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Ceased
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put an end to, finished
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Chattel
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personal property, a slave
the slave owners didn't usually CHAT with their CHATTEL |
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loathed
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disliked, hated
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Deceived
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tricked, mislead
he belEIVED the trick but he was decEIVED |
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sundry
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various, miscellaneous, or diverse
On SUNDAY we went to Rite-Aid to buy various miscellaneous items. |
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Insurrection
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rebellion, revolt
the rebels lead an insurrection against the evil dictator |
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digressing
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getting distracted, getting away from the main subject
if you DIG the RESt of the story, then stop DIGRESsing and finish it! |
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Perdition
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hell, damnation
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Alleged
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claimed with no proof
he ALLeged that ALL he said was true, but he had no proof |
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annihilate
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to destroy, to reduce to ruin
Two, four, six, eight Who will we annihilate? The other team!! we will destroy them |
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Entitled
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to have a right or a claim to something
he claimed that he was enTITLEd to the TITLE of Baron of Birmingham |
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Commensurate
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equal in size, amount, or degree
you can MEASURE and make sure that we both got COMMENSURATE pieces of the brownie |
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retaliation
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revenge
REtaliation is REvenge |
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Spartan
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simple, frugal, plain
her aPARTment was so sPARTan and plain, she had almost no furniture. |
