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30 Cards in this Set
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admonish
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syn: warn, call on the carpet
ant: praise, pat on the back |
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breach
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syn: opening, gap
ant: close, seal |
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brigand
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syn: robber, bandit
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circumspect
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syn: wary prudent,
ant: incautious, rash |
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commandeer
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syn: take over, requisition, expropriate
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cumbersome
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syn: unweildy, ponderous
ant: manageable, easy to handle |
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deadlock
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syn: standoff, stalemate, impasse
ant: agreement, accord, breakthrough |
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debris
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syn: rubble, detritus, flotsam & jetsam
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diffuse
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syn: disperse, rambling, verbose
ant: concentrate, breif, concise |
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dilemma
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syn: predicament, quandary, pickle, bind
ant: clinch |
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efface
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syn: blot out, erase, expunge
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muddle
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syn: jumble, mess up,
ant: orderliness, neatness |
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opinionated
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syn: obstinate, pighead
ant: open-minded, reasonable |
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perennial
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syn: enduring, recurring
ant: breif, shot-lived, ephemeral |
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predispose
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syn: make susceptible to
ant: immunize against, shelid from |
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relinquish
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syn: surrender, abandon
ant: hold on to, retain, cling to |
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slavage
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syn: rescue, recover, retrive
ant: abandon, scrap, junk |
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spasmodic
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syn: irregular, occasional
ant: steady, continuious, chronic |
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spurious
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syn: false, counterfeit, fraudulent
ant: genuine, fide, bona, valid |
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unbridled
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syn: unrestrained, unchecked
ant: restrained, held in check, muted |
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compensate
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syn: pay back, reimburse
ant: fail to reward, stiff |
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proliferate
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syn: multiply, mushroom, burgeon
ant: decrease, diminish, dwindle |
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subjugate
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syn: subdue, vanquish, master
ant: be conqured, submit, surrender |
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sully
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syn: pollute, taint, smear
ant: cleanse, decontaminate |
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terse
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syn: concise, succinct,
ant: verbose, wordy, diffuse, prolix |
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rift
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syn: crack, fissure, gap, cleft
ant: reconciliation |
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semblance
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syn: apperance, air, aura, veneer
ant: dissimilitary, contrast, total lack |
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surmont
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syn: conquer, triumph
ant: be vanquished, defeated, succumb to |
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trite
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syn: banal, hackneyed, corny
ant: original, novel, fresh, innovative |
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usurp
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syn: seize illegally, supplant, commandeer
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