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22 Cards in this Set
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Abstain |
To choose not to do something |
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Apathy |
Lack of feelings or emotions |
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Adulterate |
To corrupt, make something impure |
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Anomaly |
Unusual, different, not expected |
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Assuage |
Lessen the intensity, severity, pain |
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Capricious |
Changing quickly; illogical or unreasonable |
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Corroborate |
To support or help prove by providing information or evidence |
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Desiccate |
To dry up; to drain of emotions or knowledge |
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Engender |
To become the source or cause of something |
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Ephemeral |
Lasting for a short period |
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Equivocal |
Not easily understood Having two or more possible meanings |
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Erudite |
Having or showing knowledge learned by studying |
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Fervid |
Very hot Having or showing strong feeling |
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Laconic |
Using few words in speech or writing |
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Laudable |
Deserving praise |
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Loquacious |
Full of excessive talk |
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Lucid |
Clear Transparent Easy to understand |
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Mitigate |
Make less severe, harmful or painful |
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Opaque |
Not transparent Difficult to understand |
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Pedant |
Annoys other by correcting small mistakes and giving too much attention to details |
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Placate |
To cause someone to feel less angry |
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Pragmatic |
Dealing with problems in reasonable and logical ways instead of depending on theories and ideas |
