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28 Cards in this Set
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Abstruse
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Difficult to understand
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Acumen
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Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight
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Adroit
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Skillful and adept under pressing conditions
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Ascertain
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To discover with certainty;learn with certainty or assurance
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Astute
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Having or showing shrewdness and discernment
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Callous
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Emotionally hardened; unfeeling
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Circumspect
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watchful and discreet; cautious; prudent
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Candid
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Characterized by openness and sincerity of expression; unreservedly straightforward
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conjecture
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the formation or expression of an opinion or theory without sufficient evidence for proof
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convoluted
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complicated; intricately involved
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Didactic
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intended for instruction; instructive
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Disseminate
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to scatter or spread widely, as though sowing seed
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Enigma
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a puzzling or inexplicable occurrence or situation
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Erudition
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knowledge acquired by study, research
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Euphemism
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the substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt
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Extrapolate
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to infer (an unknown) from something that is known; conjecture.
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Husbandry
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the cultivation and production of edible crops or of animals for food; agriculture; farming.
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Incoherent
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without logical or meaningful connection; disjointed; rambling: an incoherent sentence.
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Inscrutable
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incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable.
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Insinuate
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to suggest or hint slyly
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Lucid
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easily understood; completely intelligible or comprehensible
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Pedantic
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overly concerned with minute details or formalisms
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Perspicacious
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having keen mental perception and understanding
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Prospectus
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a document describing the major features of a proposed literary work, project, business venture
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Reticent
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disposed to be silent or not to speak freely; reserved
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Rhetoric
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the art of influencing the thought and conduct of an audience
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Rudimentary
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pertaining to rudiments or first principles
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Staid
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fixed, settled, or permanent
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