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20 Cards in this Set
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Acquisitive (adj)
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Able to retain ideas or information, concerned with getting wealth or property. SYN: greedy, grasping, avaricious, retentive. ANT: altruistic, unretentive.
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Voldemort was acquisitive when it came to the Deathly Hallows, his last chance at a life that never ended.
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Arrogate (v)
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To claim or take without right. SYN: expropriate, usurp, commandeer. ANT: relinquish, renounce, abdicate, abandon
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Rita Skeeter, the cruel woman, arrogated his words and twisted them.
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Banal (adj)
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Obvious, dull. SYN: stale, insipid ANT: fresh, novel, original, new
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Draco had to admit that Crabbe and Goyle were absolutely banal at this - really, they were utter dimwits.
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Belabor (v)
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To work on excessively. SYN: overwork. ANT: lessen, lower.
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With time growing short, Hermione belabored over the Polyjuice Potion.
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Carping (adj), (n)
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Finding fault in a petty or nasty way. Nit-picking. SYN: nit-picking, cavailing ANT: approving, uncritical
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Aunt Petunia was a carping woman who had not a kind word for any of her neighbors.
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Coherent (adj)
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Holding or sticking together. SYN: connected, unified, consistent, cohesive. ANT: muddled, chaotic, disjointed
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After Dudley was attacked by that dementor, nothing he said was coherent.
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Congeal (v)
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To change from a liquid to a solid. SYN: harden, jell, coagulate, solidify ANT: melt, liquefy
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The Patronus congealed for a brief moment before vanishing into wisps of silver.
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Emulate (v)
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To imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model. SYN: copy, mimic, rival, match, measure up to. ANT: to avoid being like
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Percy begged Ginny not to emulate Fred and George's example, face flushing a hot red.
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Encomium (n)
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A formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute. SYN: panegyric, eulogy, commendation. ANT: condemnation, castigation, criticism
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Harry was increasingly uncomfortable with each encomium he received after the war.
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Eschew (v)
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To shun, to keep away from. SYN: abstain from, steer clear of, forgo ANT: embrace, adopt
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When everyone thought Harry was the heir of Slytherin, they all eschewed him.
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Germane (adj)
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Relevant, Appropriate. SYN: pertinent ANT: irrelevant, extraneous, inappropriate
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In Hermione's opinion, the fact Remus Lupin was a werewolf was not at all germane to his teaching abilities.
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Insatiable (adj)
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So great or demanding as not to be satisfied. (Appitites) SYN: unquenchable, ravenous, voracious. ANT: satisfiable.
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Ron had an insatiable appetite to the horror of the Gryffindor table.
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Intransigent (adj)
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Refusing to compromise, stubborn. SYN: uncompromising, unyielding, obduragte. ANT: lukewarm, halfhearteed, yielding
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Luna could be intransigent when it came to what she believed in.
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Invidious (adj)
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Offensive or hateful. SYN: malicious, spiteful, prejudicial, pejorative. ANT: complimentary, flattering, ameliorative
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Face aflame in anger, Hermione spat out, "you're an invidious prat, Malfoy."
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Largesse (n)
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(n)Generosity in giving. SYN: liberality, munificence, bounty. ANT: stinginess, miserliness, niggardiness
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There was quite the largesse of food at the Halloween feast.
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Reconnaissance (n)
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A survey made for military purposes. SYN: scouting expedition ANT: None.
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Some days on the run, it felt like they were on some reconnaissance instead of trying to save the world from Voldemort.
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Substantiate (v)
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To establish by evidence, to prove. SYN: verify, confirm, validate, authenticate. ANT: refute, disprove, invalidatee
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Hermione smirked as she substantiated her point with a flourish of her hand.
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Taciturn (adj)
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Habitually silent or quiet. SYN: tight-lipped, uncommunicative, laconic. ANT: garrulous, loquacious, prolix, verbose
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Whenever Harry happened to be about when she had been twelve, Ginny was absolutely taciturn.
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Temporize (v)
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To stall to gain time. SYN: hedge, dillydally, procrastinate. ANT: None.
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The planner Hermione had got him for his birthday stopped him from temporizing.
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Tenable (adj)
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Capable of being held or defended. SYN: defensible, justifiable, maintainable. ANT: indefensible, unjustifiable
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The Burrow was no longer tenable.
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