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20 Cards in this Set
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Adjunct |
Something added to something else as helpful or useful but not essential; an assistant or helper; a valuable quality or characteristic; added or connected in a subordinate capacity; attached to a faculty or staff in an auxiliary capacity. |
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Bellwether |
The male sheep that leaves the flock to the slaughterhouse; a liter, as in a desperate or violent undertaking; and indicator of trends. |
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Caterwaul |
To howl or screech like a cat; to quarrel; a harsh or noisy cry; a racket. |
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Chimerical |
Absurd; wildly fantastic; impossible. |
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Effete |
Lacking in wholesome vigor or energy; worn-out or exhausted; sterile or unable to produce; out of date. |
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Fait accompli |
An accomplished and presumably irreversible deed, that, or action. You going to work |
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Hidebound |
Narrow-dash-minded and rigid, especially in opinions are prejudices; stubbornly and unthinkably conservative. |
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Hierarchy |
Any system of things are people arranged or graded one above another in order of rank, wealth, class, etc. |
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Liturgy |
A religious service of rite; the form of a ritual or other act of public worship. |
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Mirage |
Something illusory, without substance, or without a basis in reality; an illusion. |
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Morass |
A patch of low, soft, wet ground; a swamp; it confusing situation in which one is entrapped, as in quicksand. |
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Noisome |
Offensive or disgusting; foul-smelling; harmful or injurious. |
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Oblivious |
Forgetful; unaware. |
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Poltroon |
A base coward. |
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Proselyte |
A convert; a disciple. |
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Quasi |
Resembling but not actually being; seemingly but not actually or completely. |
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Raillery |
Good-humored ridicule; teasing. |
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Ribald |
Irreverently mocking; coarse, vulgar, or indecent language. |
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Supine |
Lying flat on one's back; listless or lethargic; apathetic or passive. |
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Vignette |
A short description or sketch; a picture illustration with edges that gradually shade off; a decorative design on the title page of a book or at the beginning or end of a chapter. |
