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22 Cards in this Set
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Acute |
very serious or dangerous; requiring serious attention or action |
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Adamant |
Refusing to be persuaded or to change one's mind, especially in maintaining a position or opinion |
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Address |
Speak to (a person or an assembly), typically in a formal way |
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Adherent |
Someone who supports a particular party, person, or set of ideas |
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Admonish |
Warn, urge, or reprimand someone firmly |
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Adroit |
Clever or skillful in using the hands or mind |
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Adulation |
Severe flattery; excessive admiration or overenthusiastic praise |
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Vacillate |
Waver between different opinions or actions, be indecisive |
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Vapid |
Offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging |
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Vehement |
Showing strong feeling; forceful, passionate, or intense |
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Venal |
Willing to sell one's influence, especially in return for a bribe; open to bribery; mercenary |
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Venerate |
Regard with great respect; revere |
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Veracity |
Habitual truthfulness |
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Verbose |
Using or expressed in more words than are needed |
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Verisimilitude |
The appearance of being true or real |
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Vernacular |
The language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region |
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Vestige |
A mark, trace, or visible evidence of something that is no longer present or in existence |
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Vex |
Make (someone) feel annoyed, frustrated, or worried, especially with trivial matters |
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Viable |
Capable of working successfully |
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Vicarious |
Experienced or felt by watching, hearing about, or reading about someone else rather than by doing something yourself |
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Vicissitude |
A change of circumstances or fortune, typically one that is unwelcome or unpleasant |
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Vilify |
To say or write very harsh and critical things about (someone or something) |
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