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40 Cards in this Set
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To add, attach; to incorporate |
Annex |
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To cut or slit open; to cling to |
Cleave |
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In a friendly manner, heart,; cheery |
Cordial |
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The starting point of a building; fundamental principle |
Cornerstone |
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An overwhelming defeat, route; a complete collapse or failure |
Debacle |
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To make week or lifeless |
Devitalize |
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To involve in a conflict or difficulty; to throw |
Embroil |
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To clear from a charge or accusation |
Exonerate |
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Ready and fluent in speech; thoughtless, insincere |
Glib |
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By chance, not planned |
Haphazard |
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To compose or perform without preparation |
Improvise |
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To rouse, stir up urge on |
Incite |
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A coming in, inflow |
Influx |
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An extreme or unnatural paleness |
Pallor |
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A list of ancestors, family tree |
Pedigree |
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Very steep |
Precipitous |
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Very abundant |
Profuse |
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To restore to friendship |
Reconcile |
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To put in chains |
Shackle |
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Shabby, old and worn |
Threadbare |
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Endlessly |
Ad infinitum |
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To give out in shares |
Apportion |
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Genuine and sincere |
Bona fide |
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Able to float easily |
Buoyant |
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Small, exclusive group of people |
Clique |
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To admit as true |
Concede |
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Getting along well with others |
Congenial |
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Very high and Noble |
Lofty |
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A movement from one country or region to another |
Migration |
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To be aware of through the senses |
Perceive |
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Inclined to go against what is expected |
Perverse |
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An introduction |
Prelude |
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Stale, spoiled |
Rancid |
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Country like and simple |
Rustic |
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To separate |
Sever |
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Wretchedly poor |
Sordid |
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Not capable of being held or defended |
Untenable |
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Able to do many things well |
Versatile |
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To clear from hint or charge of wrongdoing |
Vindicate |
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To lose size, strength |
Wane |
