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50 Cards in this Set
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Abject |
Extremely bad or severe,miserable,hopeless,humiliating or wretched |
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Dictate |
To say or read aloud to be recorded or written by another |
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Duplicity |
Deliberate deceptiveness in behavior or speech , deceitfulness in conduct or speech |
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Jaded |
Made dull,apathetic,or cynical by experience:worn out,wearied |
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Kindred |
Group of relates persons,family, tribe,race |
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Labyrinth |
Intricate combination of paths or passages:maze |
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Morose |
Having a sullen and gloomy disposition,marked by or expressive of gloom |
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Pompous |
Having or exhibiting self-importance, arrogant |
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Semblance |
State of being somewhat like something but not truly or fully the same thing |
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Tepid |
Showing little or no interest or enthusiasm |
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Abdicate |
To renounce or relinquish a throne,right,power,claim,response, ability |
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Awry |
In a turned or twisted position or direction ,askew,off the correct or expected course,amiss |
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Bigot |
A person who is obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices |
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Candid |
Free from reservation,disguise,or subterfuge, straightforward |
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Cupidity |
Excessive desire,especially for wealth,covetousness,greed |
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Desolate |
Deprived or destitute of inhabitants,deserted,uninhabited |
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Ebullient |
Overflowing with fervor,enthusiasm, or excitement,high spirited |
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Engulf |
To flow over and enclose overwhelm |
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Influx |
A mass arrival or incoming |
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Monotone |
A succession of syllables,words,or sentences in one unvaried key or pitch, a single unvaried musical tone,a tedious sameness |
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Abrogate |
Abolish by formal or official means,annual by an authorative act |
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Bilk |
To balk or thwart to cheat or swindle, defraud,to get away with |
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Drudgery |
Menial,distasteful,dull or hard work |
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Fortuitous |
Happening or produced by chance,accidental |
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Laconic |
Using few words, expressing in few words |
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Motif |
A reoccurring and dominant idea symbol or central theme |
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Precarious |
Dependent on circumstance beyond ones control,uncertain,unstable,insecure |
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Prognosticate |
To forecast or predict from present indications or signs |
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Traverse |
To travel or pass across,over or through |
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Trepidation |
A nervous or fearful feeling of uncertain agitation,apprehension |
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Abstain |
To refrain or hold back from something by ones own choice |
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Blasphemy |
An act of cursing or reviling god |
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Convoluted |
Twisted,coiled,complicated, intricately involved |
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Efficacious |
Producing or capable of producing a desired effect |
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Fugacious |
Passing away quickly, lasting only a shot time |
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Multitude |
The condition or quality of being numerous, a very great number |
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Pillage |
To strip ruthlessly of money or goods by open violence as in war |
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Reprehensible |
Deserving of reproof,rebuke,or censure, blameworthy |
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Scapegoat |
A person or a group made to bear for others or to suffer in their place |
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Truism |
An undoubted or self-evident truth |
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Abstruse |
Hard to understand because of being extremely complex, intellectually demanding, highly abstract |
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Brusque |
Being or characterized by direct, brief, and potentially rude speech or manner |
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Deter |
To turn aside, discourage, or prevent from acting |
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Futile |
Incapable of producing any fault, ineffective, useless |
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Lewd |
Sexually unchaste it licentious, obscene, vulgar |
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Muse |
To think or meditate in silence, as on some subject, to gaze meditatively or wonderingly |
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Myriad |
A very great or indefinitely great number of persons or things |
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Peruse |
To look at or read something in an informal or relaxed way |
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Rescind |
To end officially, to say officially that is no longer valid |
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Tryst |
An appointment to meet at a certain time and place, especially one made somewhat secretly by lovers, an appointed meeting |
