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40 Cards in this Set
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Baffle (v)
- Baffling (adj) |
bewilder; perplex; fill with confusion; puzzle; frustrate
- frustrating; bewildering |
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Cinema (n)
- Cinematography (n) |
movies; motion-picture industry
- art of making motion pictures |
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Despise (v)
- Despicable (adj) |
look down on with contempt or disgust; loathe; regard as inferior (ant. admire)
- worthy of contempt; contemptible (ant. laudable) |
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Ebullient (adj)
- Ebullience (n) |
overflowing with enthusiasm; exuberant; effervescent; high-spirited; vivacious
- exuberance |
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Exaggerate (v)
- Exaggeration (n) |
overstate; go beyond the limits of the actual truth; magnify (ant. minimize)
- overstatement (ant. understatement) |
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Exhort (v)
- Exhortation (n) |
arouse by words; advise strongly; urge
- urgent recommendation or advice |
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Expertise (n)
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specialized skill or technical knowledge; know-how; expertness
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Finicky (adj)
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excessively concerned with trifles or details; hard to please; fussy; particular; fastidious; persnickety
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Gall (v)
- Gall (n) |
make sore; irritate mentally; annoy; vex
- brazen boldness; nerve (ant. meekness) |
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Inane (adj)
- Inanity (n) |
lacking significance or sense; pointless; silly; insipid; jejune; vapid (ant. deep; profound)
- foolishness; shallowness |
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Indemnify (v)
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compensate for loss, damage, or injury; reimburse; repay
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Occident (n)
- Occidental (adj) |
west; countries of America and Europe (ant. Orient)
- western (ant. oriental) |
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Peruse (v)
- Perusal (n) |
read; look at fairly attentively; study
- reading; study |
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Scuffle (v)
- Scuffle (n) |
struggle at close quarters in a rough and confused manner; wrestle; grapple
- brawl; fight |
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Spurn (v)
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thrust aside with disdain or contempt; reject (ant. accept)
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Stipend (n)
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fixed pay for services; salary; regular allowance awarded a scholarship winner
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Surveillance (n)
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close watch over a person, group, or area; supervision
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Tepid (adj)
- Tepidly (adv) |
moderately warm; lukewarm
- unenthusiastically; lukewarmly |
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Wager (v)
- Wager (n) |
risk (something) on the outcome of a contest or undertain event; gamble; bet
- bet |
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Wane (v)
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decrease in power or size; dwindle; decline; sink (ant. wax)
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Abhorrent (adj)
- Abhor (v) |
(followed by "to") in conflict; utterly opposed; loathsome; repugnant; odious; abominable (ant. admirable)
- utterly detest; loathe; hate |
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Admonish (v)
- Admonition (n) |
reprove gently but seriously; warn of a fault; caution (ant. commend)
- gentle warning; friendly reproof |
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Ambrosial (adj)
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extremely pleasing to taste or smell; delicious; like ambrosia (the food of the gods); heavenly
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Confine (v)
- Confinement (n) |
shut up; imprison; keep in narrow, cramped quarters (ant. free)
- imprisonment |
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Decade (n)
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period of ten years
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Detonate (v)
- Detonation (n) |
explode with suddenness and violence; cause (something) to explode
- explosion |
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Ephemeral (adj)
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lasting on day only; fleeting; transitory; short-lived; transient (ant. permanent; perpetual)
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Gullible (adj)
- Gull (v) |
easily deceived or cheated; credulous (ant. astute)
- deceive; cheat |
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Haggle (v)
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dispute or argue over a price in a petty way; bargain; wrangle
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Immerse (v)
- Immersion (n) |
1. plunge or place into a liquid; dip; duck
2. engross; absorb - state of being deeply engrossed; absorption |
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Insomnia (n)
- Insomniac (n) |
inability to sleep; abnormal wakefulness; sleeplessness
- person suffering from insomnia |
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Lapse (n)
- Lapse (v) |
1. slip; error; accidental mistake; trivial fault
2. interval - cease being in force; become invalid |
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Probe (n)
- Prober (n) |
critical inquiry into suspected illegal activity; investigation
- investigator |
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Render (v)
- Rendering (n) |
hand down officially; deliver (as a verdict); give
- presentation; interpretation |
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Repast (n)
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food for one occasion of eating; meal
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Replenish (v)
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bring back to condition of being full; refill
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Score (n)
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group or set of twenty; twenty
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Snub (n)
- Snub (v) |
act or instance of snubbing (treating with contempt); rebuff; slight; insult
- treat with disdain or contempt; slight |
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Suture (n)
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strand or fiber used to sew parts of the living body; also, stitch made with such material
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Unwittingly (adv)
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unintentionally; by accident; inadvertently; unknowingly (ant. intentionally)
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