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20 Cards in this Set
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Animosity |
(n.) a strong dislike; bitter hostility |
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Apathy |
(n.) a lack of feeling, emotion, or interest apr |
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Apprehensive |
(adj.) fearful or anxious, especially about the future |
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Commend |
(v.) to praise; express approval; to present as worthy of attention |
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Compatible |
(adj.) able to get along or work well together |
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Condolence |
(n.) an expression of sympathy |
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Consecrate |
(v.) to make sacred, hallow; to set apart for a special purpose |
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Decrepit |
(adj.) old and feeble; worn-out, ruined |
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Deride |
(v.) to ridicule, laugh at with contempt |
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Ingenuous |
(adj.) innocent, simple; frank, sincere |
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Multifarious |
(adj.) having great variety; numerous and diverse |
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Obsolete |
(adj.) out of date, no longer in use |
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Omnivorous |
(adj.) eating every kind of food; eagerly taking in everything, having a wide variety of tastes |
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Parsimonious |
(adj.) stingy, miserly; meager, poor, small |
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Quandary |
(n.) a state of perplexity or doubt |
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Recalcitrant |
(adj.) stubbornly disobedient, rearing authority |
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Reprisal |
(n.) an injury done in return for injury |
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Revel |
(v.) to take great pleasure in, (n.) a wild celebration |
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Stultify |
(v.) to make ineffective or useless, cripple; to have a filling effect on |
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Suave |
(adj.) smoothly agreeable or polite; pleasing to the senses |
