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50 Cards in this Set
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Abscond
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to run off and hide
syn: bolt, make off, skip town |
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Access
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approach or admittance to plavces, persons, things ; an increase.
to get at, obtain Syn: Entry, admittance, entree |
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Accomplice
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a person that take part in a crime.
Syn: partnet in crime, confederate. |
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Adherents
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A follower, supporter; attached, sticking too.
Syn: disciple |
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Admonish
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to caution or advise against something; to scold mildly; to remind of a duty.
Syn: warn, call on the carpet |
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Alien
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a citizen of another country; foreign, strange
Syn: exotic, unfamiliar |
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Altercation
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an angry argument
Syn: quarrel, dispute, squabble |
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Annihilated
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to destroy completely
Syn: obliterate, decimate, demolish |
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Arbitrary
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unreasonable; based on one's wishes or whims without regards for reason or fairness.
Syn: capricious, high- handed autocratic |
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Arduous
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hard to do, requiring much effor.
Syn: hard, difficult, laborious,fatiguing. |
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Auspicious
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favorable; fortunate
Syn: promising, encouraging, propitious |
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Brazen
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shameless, impudent; made of brass
Syn: saucy, bold |
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Catalyst
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a substance that causes or hastens a chemical reaction; any agent that causes change.
Syn: Stimulus, spur, instigator |
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Comely
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having a pleasing appearance
Syn: Good-looking, attractive, bonny |
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Condone
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to pardon or overlook
Syn: ignore, wink at, turn a blind eye to |
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Daunt
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to overcome with fear, intimidatel to dishearten discourage
Syn: dismay, cow |
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Disentangle
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to free from tangles or complications
Syn: unravel, unwind, unscramble, unsnarl |
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Dissent
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to disagree; disagreement
Syn: differ, dispute |
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Exodus
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a large-scale departure or flight
Syn: emigration, escape, hegira |
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Expulsion
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the process of driving, or forcing out
Syn: ejection, ouster, eviction |
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Fabricate
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to make, manufacture; to make up, invent
Syn: put together , devise, contrive, concoct |
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Facilitate
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to make easier; to assist
Syn: ease, smooth the way, simplify |
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Fodder
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food for horses or cattle; raw mater
Syn: feed, provender |
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Hoodwink
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to mislead by a trick, deceive
Syn: dupe, put one over on. |
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Inanimate
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not having life ; without energy or spirit
Syn: lifeless, dead, inert, spiritless |
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Incineration
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to burn to ashes
Syn: burn up, cremate, reduce to ashes. |
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Incorrigible
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not able to be corrected; beyond control
Syn: unruly, intractable, incurable, inveterate |
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Intrepid
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very brave, fearless, unshakable
Syn: valiant, courageous, audacious, daring |
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Larceny
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Theft
Syn: stealing, robbery, burglary |
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Latent
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hidden, present but not releize
Syn: dormant, inactive, undeveloped |
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Migration
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to move from one place to another
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Militant
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given to fighting; active and agressive in support of a cause; and activist
Syn: truculent |
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Morose
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Having a gloomy or sullen manner, not friendly or sociable
Syn: morbid, doleful |
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Opaque
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not letting light through; not clear or lucid; dense stupid
Syn: hazy, cloudy, foggy, murky, dull, obtuse. |
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paramount
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chief in importance, above all others
Syn: supreme, foremost, primary, dominant |
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Pilfer
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to steal in small quantities
Syn: filch, rob, swipe, purloin |
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Pliant
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bending readily; easily influenced
Syn: supple, flexible, elastic, plastic |
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Pompous
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overly self-important in speech & manner;
Syn: pretentious, highfalutin, bombastic |
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Prattle
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to talk in an aimless, foolish, or simple way; to babble
Syn: chatter, twaddle, gibberish, piffle |
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Rebut
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to offer arguments or evidence that contradicts an assertion; to refute
Syn: disaprove, confute, shoot holes in |
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Rectify
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to make right, correct
Syn: remedy, set right |
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Relinquish
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to let go, give up.
Syn: Surrender, abandon |
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Reprieve
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a temporary relief or delay ; to grant a postponement.
Syn: Stay, respite; postpone, delay |
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Reprimand
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to scold; find faul with; a rebuke
Sn: reprove, reproach; reproof |
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Salvage
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to save from fire or shipwreck; property thus saved
Syn:to rescue, recover, retrieve, reclaim |
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Semblance
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a likeness; an outwar appearance; an apparition
Syn: appearance, air, aura, veneer, fecade |
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Servitude
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slavery, forced labor
Syn: captivity, bondage, thralldom |
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Slapdash
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careless and hasty
Syn: cursory, prefunctory, sloppy, slipshod |
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Spurious
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not genuine, not true, not valid
Syn: false, counterfeit, fraudulent, bogus. |
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