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18 Cards in this Set
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implacable
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incapable of being mollified, appeased; relentless
Ex: For he was looking at Wolf Larsen, the old and implacable snarl of hatred strong as ever on his face. |
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irascible
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hot-tempered, quickly aroused to anger
Ex: He was a singularly irascible man; any little thing would disturb his temper. |
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acrimonious
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bitter, resentful and sharp in language or tone; rancorous
Ex: An acrimonious debate. |
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fiat
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a legally binding command or decision; decree, edict
Ex: "Then I read it," said Hippolyte, in the tone of one bowing to the fiat of destiny. |
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adroit
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quick or skillful in action or thought; deft, dexterous
Ex: If you judged him to be the bravest, the most acute, and the most adroit man in France, you judged correctly. |
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vicissitude
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an unexpected variation in circumstances at different times in life or development; variation, change
Ex: But during the vicissitudes of those trying centuries of readjustment to new conditions... |
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tryst
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a date, usually secret, with the opposite sex; a meeting agreed upon, engagement
Ex: It suited them both better that they should arrange a secret tryst on these occasions. |
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august
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profoundly honored, venerable
Ex: The august and mellow University |
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antipodal
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opposite
Ex: The antipodalan·point of Eugene, OR is about 700 miles south and slightly east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. |
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wistful
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showing pensive sadness; full of wishful yearning
Ex: ...shining in the clear dawn of a golden past to which all poets and philosophers to come will turn with wistful eyes. |
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inveterate
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habitual, chronic; deep-rooted, ingrained
Ex: The subject was a German who kept a liquor-shop aud was an inveterate drunkard |
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capricious
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determined by chance or impulse rather than by reason; impulsive; unpredictable
Ex: We cannot tell where we may go; these animals can be very capricious. |
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magnanimous
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generous and understanding; tolerant
Ex: He felt that the husband was magnanimous even in his sorrow, while he had been base and petty in his deceit. |
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efface
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remove completely from recognition, erase; to avoid drawing attention to (oneself
Ex: She did her best to efface herself at parties. |
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ebullience
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overflowing with eager enjoyment or approval
Ex: During our last game we played with ebullience, knowing it would be our last. |
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endeavor (verb)
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strive; attempt by employing effort
Ex: We endeavor to make our customers happy |
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enmity
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hostility; ill will, esp b/w enemies
Ex: The wartime enmity of the two nations. |
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prodigious
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far beyond what is usual in size; extraordinary; portentous, ominous
Ex: Nothing remained to him but his thirst, a prodigious possession in itself that grew more prodigious with every sober breath he drew. |
