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18 Cards in this Set
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Incognito
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Adjective
Having one's identity concealed, as under an assumed name, especially to avoid notice or formal attentions |
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Incontrovertible
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Adjective
Impossible to dispute; unquestionable "incontrovertible proof of the defendent's innocence" |
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Inculcate
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Verb
To impress upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repitition |
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Infrastructure
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Noun
An underlying base or foundation, especially for a system or organization |
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Paradigm
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Noun
Something that serves as a pattern or model |
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Precipituous
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Adjective
Very steep, perpendicular, or overhanging in rise or fall |
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Recapitulate
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Verb
To review by a brief summary, as at the end of a discussion; summarize |
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Reparation
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Noun
The making of amends for injury done "The reparation for an injustice" |
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Soliloquy
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Noun
The act of talking to oneself; in literature, when the character is onstage talking to himself without a listener but the audience can hear |
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Tempestuous
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Adjective
Characterized by violent emotions or behavior "A stormy argument" "A stormy marriage" |
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Totalitarian
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Adjective
Dictorial; Of or relating to a centralized government that does not tolerate parties of differing opinion and that exercises dictorial control over many aspects of life |
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Unctuous
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Adjective
Characterized by excessive piousness or mortalic fervor (Parris, Danforth) |
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Usurp
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Verb
To seize and hold a position, office, power, etc by force or without legal right "The pretender tried to usurp the throne" |
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Vacuous
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Adjective
Expressing or characterized by a lack of ideas or intellegence |
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Vehement
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Adjective
Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid "A vehement denial" |
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Vortex
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Noun
A place where life is sucked out of something "Abigail was the vortex of Proctor's downfall" |
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Yeoman
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Noun
A person who farms or cultivates a small piece of land (during the Renaissance); a person attending or assisting another |
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Xenophobe
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Noun
A person who fears or hates foreigners, strange customs, etc |