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22 Cards in this Set
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Dearth |
lack; scarcity |
The drought caused a dearth in the food supply, and many people starved to death. |
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Denizen |
inhabitant |
Mrs. Isaac is a denizen of Georgia. |
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Discern |
to have insight; to see things clearly, to discriminate; to differentiate |
Mary had the ability to discern other people's motives. |
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Ebullient |
boiling; bubbling with excitement; exuberant |
The roaring crowd exhibited their ebullient behavior when the team won the game. |
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Edify |
to enlighten; to instruct, especially in moral or religious matters |
The teacher edified her students on the value of literature in society. |
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Esoteric |
hard to understand; understood only by a select few; peculiar |
The scientists comments were esoteric. |
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Exigency |
an emergency; an urgency |
An academic exigency: you haven't opened a book all quarter, and the final is tomorrow morning. |
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Fabrication |
a lie; something made up |
Candy told her mother that she was spending the night with Sarah, which was a fabrication. |
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Facile |
fluent; skillful in a superficial way; easy |
French seemed facile to Tory. |
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Fatalist |
someone who believes that future events are already determined and that humans are powerless to change them |
The old man was a fatalist about his illness, for he believed he could not control his condition and would soon die. |
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Fetter |
to restrain; to hamper |
The chain fettered the convict to the prison wall. |
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Garrulous |
talkative; chatty |
Peter thought Patty was the most garrulous girl he ever talked to. |
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Gratuitous |
given freely (said of something bad); unjustified; unprovoked; uncalled for |
The newspaper slandered the movie star by making several gratuitous comments about the star's life. |
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Guile |
cunning; duplicity; artfulness |
Carla used guile, not intelligence, to win the spelling bee. |
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Harbinger |
a forerunner; a signal of |
Sam knew the heavy black clouds served as a harbinger for an upcoming storm. |
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Homogeneous |
uniform; made entirely of one thing |
The kindergarten class was extremely homongenous; all the children had blond hair, blue eyes, and red shoes. |
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Iconoclast |
one who attacks popular beliefs or institutions |
The columnist acted like an iconoclast by derogating American democracy. |
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Implement |
to carry out |
The criminal implemented the crime. |
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Incisive |
cutting right to the heart of the matter |
Sarah's incisive comment ended the debate. |
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Juxtapose |
to place side by side |
The photographer juxtaposed the sisters. |
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Labyrinth |
a maze; something like a maze |
The new school was designed as a labyrinth, and the students couldn't find their classes. |
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Lament |
to mourn |
Travolta lamented the death of disco. |
