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20 Cards in this Set
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Approbation
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The expression of approval of favorable opinion, praise; official approval.
SY: Commendation, sanction AN: Disapproval, condemnation, censure. (Noun) |
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Assuage
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To make easier or milder, relieve; to quite, calm; to put an end to, appease, satisfy, quench.
SY: Mitigate, alleviate, slake, ally AN: Intensify, aggravate, exacerbate. (Verb) |
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Coalition
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A combination, union, or merger for some specific purpose.
SY: Mitigate, alleviate, slake, ally AN: Splinter group (Noun) |
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Decadence
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Decline, decay, or deterioration.
SY: Degeneration, corruption AN: Rise, growth, development, maturation. (Noun) |
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Elicit
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To draw forth, bring out from some source.
SY: Call forth, evoke, extract, educe AN: Repress, quash, squelch, stifle (Verb) |
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Expostulate
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To attempt to dissuade someone from some course or decision by earnest reasoning.
SY: Protest, remonstrate, complain AN: (Verb) |
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Hackneyed
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Used so often as to lack freshness or originality.
SY: Banal, trite, commonplace, corny AN: New, fresh, novel, original (Adj.) |
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Hiatus
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A gap, opening, break.
SY: Pause, lacuna AN: Continuity, continuation (Noun) |
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Innuendo
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A hit, indirect suggestion.
SY: Insintation, intimiation AN: direct statment (Noun) |
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Intercede
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To plead on behalf of someone else.
SY: Intervene, mediate (Verb) |
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Jaded
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Wearied, worn-out
SY: Sated, Surfeited AN: Unspoiled, uncloyed (Adj.) |
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Lurid
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Causing shock, horror, or revulsion.
SY: Gruesome, gory, grisly AN: Pleasant, attractive, appealing (Adj.) |
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Meritorious
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Worthy, deserving
(Adj.) |
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Petulant
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Peevish, annoyed by trifles.
(Adj.) |
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Prerogative
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A special right or privilege.
(Noun) |
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Provincial
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Pertaining to an outlying area.
(Adj.) |
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Simulate
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To make a pretense of, imitate.
(Verb) |
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Transcend
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To rise above or beyond, exceed.
(Verb) |
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Umbrage
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Shade cast by trees.
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Unctuous
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Excessively smooth or smug.
(Adj.) |
