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20 Cards in this Set
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Abortive
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unsuccessful or failing to achieve a goal |
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Bruit
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to spread news, reports, or gossip |
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Contumentious |
(adj) recede insulent in speach |
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Dictum |
a short saying; an authoritative statement |
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Ensconce |
To put or hide in a safe place; to shelter |
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Iconoclastic |
attacking or seeming to overthrow beliefs |
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Internecine |
mutually destructive; great blood shed |
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In medius res
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into the middle of things |
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Malodroit
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lacking a skill, judgement |
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Maudlin
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excessivley or effusively sentimental |
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Modulate |
adjust the intensity or pitch |
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Portentous |
ommonus, foreshadowing an event to come |
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Prescience |
(noun) Knowledge of events to come |
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Quid pro quo
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something given in return of something |
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Salubrious |
(adj) condusive of good health |
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Saternalium
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Crazy; riotus or unrestrained partying |
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Touchstone
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a object used to test the worth of something |
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Traumatic |
So shocking as to create psychological damage |
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Vitiate |
to weaken, debase, or corrupt; to impune the value |
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Waggish |
fond of making jokes; playfully humorous |
