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102 Cards in this Set
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Adage |
Wise saying, proverb |
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Bonanza |
Sudden profit or gain |
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Citadel |
Fortress |
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Discordant |
Disagreeable in sound |
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Evolve |
To rise to a higher level, but gradually |
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Grope |
To search uncertainly (with your hands) |
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Laggard |
A person who progresses slowly |
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Preclude |
Prevent from happening |
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Revert |
To return |
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Servile |
Menial. Behaving like a slave |
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Vigil |
A time of watching attentively |
Vigil. Video. A time when you are watching attentively. |
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Avowed |
To declare openly |
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Banter |
Playful and teaseful conversation |
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Detriment |
Cause of harm |
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Enterprising |
Willing to start something new |
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Frugal |
Cheap |
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Gingerly |
With care |
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Glut |
An oversupply |
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Incognito |
In disguise |
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Invalidate |
To make invalid (valueless) |
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Maim |
To injure |
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Oblique |
Slanted |
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Veer |
Change direction |
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Venerate |
To look up to with respect |
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Wanton |
Immoral |
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Allot |
Distribute in portions |
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Amass |
To gather |
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Audacious |
Daring |
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Comply |
Give in to someone else's command |
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Devoid |
Lacking |
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Elite |
Superiors |
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Grapple |
Hook/to fight |
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Incapacitate |
To deprive of strength |
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Instigate |
To urge on, to start |
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Myriad |
A lot |
+myriadd |
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Perturb |
Disturb |
Perturb. Disturb. |
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Tether |
Rope or chain |
Tether ball is a ball on a rope. |
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Vie |
To compete |
You're competing and it might be a tie. get it? Tie Vie. 😊 |
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Willful |
On purpose |
It was of your own free will. |
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Prodigious |
Big |
Prodigious. Get it? Dig Big 😊 |
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Annul |
To make invalid (to reduce to nothing) |
Invalidate |
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Blasé |
Bored because you're used to having luxury |
+ Bassie😊 |
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Bolster |
Support |
Bolster, upholster. Get it?😊 |
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Deplore |
Disapprove |
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Frivolous |
Irrelevant |
Frizzy hair is inapplicable to my life |
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Nonentity |
A person of no importance |
None importance |
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Nonentity |
A person of no importance |
None importance |
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Oust |
Drive out of position |
Oust. out. |
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Nonentity |
A person of no importance |
None importance |
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Oust |
Drive out of position |
Oust. Out. Get it? 😊 |
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Peruse |
Read thoroughly |
Peri doesn't do this😂 |
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Porous |
Full of tiny holes |
Porous. Pores--in skin |
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Promontory |
High point of land extending into water |
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Prone |
Likely |
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Qualm |
Pang of conscience |
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Recourse |
A person or thing turned to for help or advice |
I'm going to give you a course. |
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Solicitous |
Showing concern |
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Staid |
Serious and dignified |
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Sustain |
Support |
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Addendum |
An addition |
Addendum. Add |
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Ample |
More than enough |
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Apparition |
Ghost |
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Disdain |
Regard with distaste |
Disdain. Distaste. |
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Ethical |
Having to do with morals |
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Facetious |
Humorous |
Bassie's face is funny-humorous |
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Assert |
To state as truth |
Assert. As is-- it's the truth |
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Indiscriminate |
Without control |
Indiscriminate. In-without (control) |
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Indiscriminate |
Without control |
Indiscriminate. In-without (control) |
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Jurisdiction |
An area of authority or control |
An area of jurysdiction |
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Plausible |
Able to be true |
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Plebeian |
Commoner |
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Prodigal |
Lavish. Spender. |
Prodigal. With pride.✌🏼 Prodigal. It's usually girls who buy a lot of things. 😂 |
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Volatile |
An unpredictable way |
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Ambiguous |
Having several possible meanings |
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Anthropomorphic |
Given human characteristics |
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Ambiguous |
Having several possible meanings |
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Anthropomorphic |
Given human characteristics |
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Vice |
Immoral behavior |
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Parable |
Story made to illustrate lesson. MASHUL! |
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Fable |
Short story, with a moral |
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Antihero |
Main character with unherolike characteristics |
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Expendable |
Worth sacrificing |
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Paradox |
Something with contradictory qualities |
Paradox. From the opposite ends of the alphabet. A-X |
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Delirium |
Extreme mental disturbance. Often accompanied with hallucinations. |
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Resilient |
Able to recover quickly |
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Remit |
Return payment |
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Revoke |
Withdraw |
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Primeval |
Of the earliest times |
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Subliminal |
Below the level of awareness |
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Figurative language |
Using figures of speech to be more persuasive. |
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Mood |
How the story makes you feel. |
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Theme |
The author's central message. |
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Rakish |
Dashing appearance |
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Insinuate |
Hint in an unpleasant way |
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Henpeck |
To constantly criticize ones husband |
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Emasculate |
Deprive a man of his importance |
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Derisive |
Expressing contempt |
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Humdrum |
Dull |
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Colloquial |
Ordinary conversation (the way we speak, not write) |
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Monochromatic |
Containing only one color |
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Ennui |
Boredom |
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Exposition |
Part of the story where the setting is introduced |
The part where the setting is exposed |
