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75 Cards in this Set
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Easily understood; intelligible
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lucid
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Fully and clearly expressed; leaving nothing implied
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explicit
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Clearness of thought or style; lucidity
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clarity
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expressing much in few words; clear and succinct
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conciseness
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short in time, duration, length, or extent
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brief
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brief and to the point; effectively concise
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terse
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using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise
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laconic
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characterized by clear, precise expression in few words; concise and terse
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succinct
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terse and energetic in expression; pithy
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sententious
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strong feeling; enthusiasm or intensity
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vigor
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effected against resistance through the use of force
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forcible
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bitingly sarcastic
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mordant
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penetrating, clear, and sharp, as in operation or expression
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incisive
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described in vivid detail
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graphic
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to arouse the passions of
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impassioned
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distinct; clear-cut, effective, forceful
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trenchant
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an instance of being imperfectly known or difficult to understand
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obscurity
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not clearly understood or expressed
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obscure
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not clearly expressed; inexplicit
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vague
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intricate; complex
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involuted
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to spread about or scatter; disseminate
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diffuseness
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using or containing a great and usually an excessive number of words; wordy
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verbose
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tediously prolonged; wordy
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prolix
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to speak or write at leanth and with many digressions
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rambling
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to draw out or lenthgen in time; prolong
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protracted
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tending to use, using, or expressed in more words than are necessary to convey meaning
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wordy
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intricate; complicated
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convoluted
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lacking vigor, force, or effectiveness; inadequate
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feebleness
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lacking in imagination and spirit; dull
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prosaic
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not diversified
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unvaried
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lacking in substance or completeness; incomplete
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sketchy
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lacking persuasiveness; unconvincing
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weak
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immature; childish
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puerile
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low or lower in quality, value
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inferior
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inadequate; incompetent
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ineffective
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obvious to the mind; evident, not elaborate, straightfowrward
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plainness
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stated or otherwise presented without any effort to soften or disguise; plain
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unvarnished
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extremely plain in substance; harsh or strict
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severe
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having no remarkable features, characteristics, or traits; ordinary
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commonplace
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deficient in originality or creativity
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unimaginative
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occuring, growing, or settled at widely spaced intervals,; not thick or dense
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sparse
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grace of style
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elegance
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to remove flaws from; perfect or complete
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polished
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simple and harmonious; elegant
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classic
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showing grace of movement, form, or proportion
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graceful
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of or exhibiting symmetry
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symmetrical
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exhibiting an agreeably appropriate manner or stlye
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felicitous
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agreement
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conformity
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commonly encountered; usual
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ordinary
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boring
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bromidic
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serving as an illustration; typical, commendable
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exemplary
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decoration
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embellishment
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flashy, showy, or florid in style or manner
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ornate
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grandiloquent expressions
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flowery
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complex in style or language
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turgid
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grandiloquent, pompous speech or writing
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bombastic
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very ornate; flowery
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florid
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lack of refinement or polish
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inelegance
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having or exhibiting no sense of propriety or decency
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graceless
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crudely indecent
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vulgar
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hard work; a specific task
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labored
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lacking grace or fluency; labored and dull
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ponderous
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lacking flavor; insipid
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tasteless
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dissimilar
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unconformity
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being the only one of a kind; unique
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singular
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lacking organization; formless
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amorphous
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strikingly unconventional and far-fetched in style or appearance; odd
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bizarre
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highly exceptional; remarkable
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extraordinary
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any arful variation from the typical arrangement of words in a sentence
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scheme
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any artful variation from the typical or expected way a word or idea is expressed
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trope
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repetiton of the same group of words at the end of successive clauses
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anaphora
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parallelism used to juxtapose words, phrases, or clauses that contrast
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antithesis
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omission of conjunctions between related clauses
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asyndeton
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repetition of the same group of words at the end of successive clauses
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epistrophe
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repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause
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anadiplosis
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