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Impugn
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to challenge as false; to question
--->?? |
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Incendiary
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causing fire
stirring up trouble ---> Incendiary flames--> troublesome flames--> causing flames |
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Incense
(Incensed) |
to anger
angry ---> Incense--> calming smells to soothe nerves--> opposite--> to anger. |
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Indignant
(Indignation) |
angry; shocked
anger at something considered unfair ---> ?? |
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Insurgent
(Insurgency) |
rebel
rebellion --> surge--> to storm--> rebels would storm the capital. |
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Insurrectionist
(Insurrection) |
rebel
rebellion --> Surrection--> ressurection--> to bring back to life--> you bring to life a rebellion with a revolt. |
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Intransigent
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stubborn; refusing to compromise
---> ?? |
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Irascible
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bad-tempered
-->I Really Am So skip ci--> Bad tempered. |
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Irate
(Ire) |
very angry
anger --> irate--> iritate--> if your highly irritated your very angry. |
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Jar
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to unsettle; to shock
--> Ar--> ARRR!--> to shock. |
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Livid
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extremely angry
grayish-white or bruised ---> ?? |
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Mar
(Marred) |
to spoil; to damage
spoiled; damaged -->?? |
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Maverick
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rebel
--->rick is a rebel. |
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Militant
(Militaristic) |
fighting; aggressive
excessively supportive of the armed forces --> military--> fighting. |
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Mutinous
(Mutiny) |
disobedient
rebellion ---> mutiny--> rebellion. |
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Mystify
(Mystical, Mystique) |
to confuse; to make unclear
mysterious a special, mysterious quality --> mysterious---> if something is mysterious its unclear. |
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Nebula
(Nebulous) |
a cloud
cloudy; vague --> Nebula galaxy--> named for how cloudy it is. |
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Obdurate
(Obduracy) |
stubborn
stubborness ---> durate--> durable--> tough--> stubborn. |
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Obsequious
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overly submissive; asskissing
--> ?? |
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Obstinate
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stubborn
--> ander's friend nate is very stubborn. |
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Obstreperous
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noisily rebellious; unruly
--> Obst--> stubborn + ous--> if your stubborn your unruly. |
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Obtuse
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slow to understand or notice; dim; not sharp
--> obtuse angle--> very dim--> not sharp--> large doesnt creat a tip like an acute angle--> not sharp. |
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Ominous
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threatening
--> ominous feeling--> something bad is about to happen--> threatening |
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Opaque
(Opacity) |
hard to understand
not see-through lack of clearness --> Opacity in wow is how clear the buttons are to see--> lack or lack there of clearness |
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Paradox
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an apparent contradiction
-->?? |
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Pernicious
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harmful
---> Per minus the ni keep the c--> perc--> dk in wow--> harmful to other classes. |
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Perturb
(Imperturable, Unperturbed) |
to disturb
calm; hard to upset calm --> turb--> disturb. |
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Phlegmatic
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unexcitable; slow to react
--> leg--> if you dont have legs you would be slow to react if you had to move. |
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Polarize
(Polemical, Bipolar) |
to divide into opposing groups
deliberately controversial; opinionated and argumentive having opposite extremes ---> in chemistry--> polar and non-polar--> two seperate groups--> to polarize is to divide a substance into one of those groups--> divide into opposing groups. |
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On the ulnar side of the palm, in the depression between the base of the fifth metacarpal bone and the hamate bone (triquetral bone)
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Wangu
Yuan-Primary Point SI 4 |
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Pugnacious
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argumentative
--> pug--> in wow if you pug a dungeon you might get into arguments over how someone cant do something write--> argumentative. |
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Quandry
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difficult or puzzling situation
--> ?? |
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Query
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a doubt; a question
to express doubt; to question --> Item query--> a question usually about how much of something. |
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Quibble
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a minor argument
--> ?? |
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Rambunctious
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noisy and undisciplined
--> Ram--> Bam--> Bam margera--> he is noisy and undisciplined. |
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Raze
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to tear down to the ground
--> sounds like raise--> opposite--> tear to the ground. |
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Rebut
(Rebuttal) |
to oppose; to argue against
counterargument |
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Recalcitrant
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disobedient; refusing to be controlled
--> rant--> if you go on a rant your usually disapproving of something and arguing about it--> disobedient. |
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Refute
(Refutation, Irrefutable) |
to reject; to disprove
an act of disproving impossible to deny or disprove --> refute--> reject--> to disprove. |
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Regress
(Regressive) |
to go backward
going backward --> progress--> to go forward--> regress to go backward. |
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Reluctant
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unwilling; hesitant
--> tant--> hesitant. |
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Renegade
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traitor
--> renegade--> grenade--> if someone throws a grenade at their own troops they're a traitor. |
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Repress
(Repression, Irrepressible) |
to keep down; to hold back
restraint; holding back impossible to hold back --> press--> to put force on usually in the direction of gravity--> to hold back. |
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Rigid
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sitff; inflexible
--> ?? |
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Rival
(Rivalry) |
v- to compete against
n- to equal or almost equal n- opponent competition --> ?? |
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Ruthless
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cruel; merciless
--> ruth--> good friends grandmother--> very sweet--> opposite--> cruel. |
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Salvo
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an outburst (Cheers or gunfire)
a verbal attack ---> sam salvo--> georgie's friend--> she would be someone to give a salvo over someone famous--> shes very loud--> salvo. |
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Sedition
(Seditious) |
rebellion
causing rebellion --> ?? |
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Servile
(Servility) |
acting like a slave; overly submissive
excessive submissveness --> serv--> to serve--> acting like a slave. |
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Specious
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apparently true but actually false
--> spec--> specifically--> sometimes people talk about specific things that they dont know if are true are false and lie accidentally. |
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Squabble
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petty argument
--> birds squabble--> their arguements are loud and annoying. |
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Strident
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harsh-sounding
--> ?? |
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Strife
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a fight for power; rivalry
--> rife--> rifle--> you might shoot your opponent in a fight for power. |
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Subdued
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serious; expressing little emotion
--> dued--> if your owed money and its been months since you've been paid you would take the situation very seriously--> serious. |
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Surreptitious
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sneaky
-->?? |
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Swindle
(Swindler) |
to cheat; to take by fraud
a cheat --> a swindler on wallstreet--> someone who takes money by fraud. |
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Tiff
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a small argument
--> tiffany and i always get in arguments--> but they are always small arguments. |
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Treachery
(Treacherous) |
deceitfulness; betrayal
not trustworthy; unpredictable hazardous; dangerous --> ?? |
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Truculent
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fierce; argumentative; aggressive
--> truc--> truck--> truck drivers are usually very aggressive since they spend more then half their day driving. |
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Tumultuous
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stormy
--> ?? |
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Turbulent
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stormy
--> on a plane if there is turbulance--> its because its bumpy because the plane is in a storm cloud. |
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Turmoil
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trouble; confusion
--> political turmoil--> political confusion or trouble. |
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Turncoat
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traitor; one who switches sides
--> Turn + coat--> if you switch the sides on your coat then its like your putting on another persona--> traitor--> refers specifically to the american revolution |
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Turptitude
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wickedness
--> ?? |
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Undermine
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to weaken
--> to under mine--> sounds like to outdo someone--> therefore to weaken them. |
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Vacillate
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to change back and forth; to be indecisive
--> ? |
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Vendetta
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a plan for revenge
--> V for Vendetta--> about the revenge of this man. |
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Vex
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to annoy
to puzzle --> ?? |
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Vie
(Vying) |
to compete
competing --> lie--> when you compete in a competition you should never lie. |
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Vindicate
(Vindictive) |
to get revenge; to clear a name
to justify revengeful; spiteful --> V for vendetta--> vindicate--> to use the plan to get revenge--> to get revenge. |
