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19 Cards in this Set
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Mediate
syn: intervene, negotiate, interject, consilliate, reconcile ant: instigate |
act as the agent to reconcile 2 sideas in a disagreement
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Nullify
syn: void, negate, reverse, invalidate, cancel, abolish ant: corrroborate, endorse, affirm, sanction, enact |
To make something invalid
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Pedant
syn: plauding,bookworm, scholar |
a person who is unimaginative, emphisizes minutia or triviality in presonatations or use of knowledge
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Pedantic
ant: succinct, terse, laconic |
unimaginative, pedestrian, punctuous, pompous, prolix, dogmatic
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Realism
syn: pragmatism ant: idealism, romantacism |
-a philosophy
-concern for a fact or reality -rejection of impractical visionary |
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Scurrilous
ant: decent, proper, delicate, refined |
-being vulgar or evil
ex: uses harsh language |
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Tirade
syn: diotride, hurangue, jerimide, phillipic ant: praise, panargiric, laudation, commendation |
speach marked by harshness
(heing yelled at) |
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Virulent
syn: malignant, lethal, vehimous, pernicious, malevolent ant: benigne, harmless, merciful, innocuous |
-marked by severe or rapid force
-full of malice (virulent racism) |
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Wary
syn: vigilent, circumspect, cautious ant: reckless, fool hardy |
marked by keeness to watch for danger
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apropos
syn: pertinent, suitable, congruess ant: inappropriate, unsuitable, inoportune |
-relevent
-appropriate |
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Bombastic
syn: grandiloquent, turgid ant: modest, humble, unpretentious |
pompous, overblown, know-it-all
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Connotation
syn: implication, undertone ant: denotation |
all things suggested by a word or thing
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Connote
ant: state (say outright) |
suggest, imply
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Enhance
syn: embellish, augment ant: decrease, diminish, reduce, lessen |
-add or contribute to, improve
- increase, intensify |
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Envisage
syn: envision |
-to view or regard in a certain way
- to have a mental picture of |
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Epigram
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a witty or sarcastic saying
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Epigrammatic
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witty or sarcastic
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Compatible
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-to be able to coexist agreeably
-consistant |
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Incompatible
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not in agreement, inconsistant
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