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17 Cards in this Set
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sanguineous |
-blood red or blood thirsty, can also describe a person's appearance (flushed cheeks), optimistic or happy -sanguine, sanguinity (noun), sanguinely (adverb) |
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decrepit/antiquated |
-worn out by age or neglect; elderly and infirm -decrepitly (advb), decrepitness (noun) |
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audacious |
-(adj) marked by rude boldness -audacity (noun form, use when talking about taking bold risks) |
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bilious |
-(adj) peevish, irritable, ill-tempered; unpleasant to look at -biliously (advb), biliousness (noun) |
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bombastic |
-(adj) high-sounding -bombastically (advb) |
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caustic |
-(adj) sarcastic in a scathing and bitter way -caustically (advb), causticity (noun) |
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haughty |
-blatantly or disdainfully proud -haughtily (advb), haughtiness (noun) |
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elegiac |
-(adj) expressing sorrow or lamentation -(adj) elegiacal, (advb) elegiacally |
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illusory |
-(adj) causing illusion; deceptive, misleading -illusorily (advb), illusoriness (noun) |
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doleful |
-(adj) mournful, causing grief or misfortune |
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nihilistic |
-(adj) of or believing in the total rejection of established laws and institutions -nihilism and nihilist (noun), nihilistically (advb) |
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impish |
-(adj) mischievious, troublesome |
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querulous |
-(adj) grouchy, hard to please -querulously (advb), querulousness (noun) |
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ribald |
-referring to a sexual matter in a rude but amusing way, vulgar humor -lewd humor (adj), vulgarly humorous person (noun), ribaldly (advb) |
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rancorous |
-(adj) bitter, long-lasting resentment -rancorousness (noun), rancorously (advb) |
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saccharine |
-(adj) something overly sweet or overly sentimental -saccharinely (advb), saccharinity (noun) |
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wry |
-dry, mocking humor -person's face twisting into look of disgust, annoyance, disappointment |
