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31 Cards in this Set
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Afficionado
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an enthusiastic and usually expert follower or fan
SYN: devotee, enthusiast |
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Browbeat
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to intimidate by a stern or overbearing manner; to bully
SYN: cow, coerce ANT: cajole, coax, wheedle, sweet-talk |
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Commensurate
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equal in size, extent, duration, or importance; proportionate; measurable by the same standards
SYN: comparable, corresponding, coordinate |
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Diaphanous
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very sheer and light; almost transparent
SYN: translucent, gossamer ANT: opaque, dense |
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Emolument
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profit derived from an office or position or from employment; fee or salary
SYN: pay, wages |
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Forayer
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quick raid; especially for plunder; a ventures into some field of endeavor;; to make such a raid
SYN: sally, sortie ANT: retreat |
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Genre
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a type. class, or variety, especially distinctive category of literary composition; a style of painting in which everyday scenes are realistically depicted
SYN: species, sort, school |
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Homily
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a sermon stressing moral principles; a tedious moralizing lecture or discourse
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Immure
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to enclose or confine within walls; to imprison; to seclude or isolate
SYN: mew up ANT: release, liberate, emancipate |
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Insouciant
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blithely indifferent or unconcerned; carefree; happy-go-lucky
SYN: blase, devil-may-care ANT: worried, careworn, agitated, distraught |
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Matrix
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a mold; the surrounding situation or environment
SYN: pattern, model |
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Obsequies
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funeral rites or ceremonies
SYN: funeral services |
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Panache
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a confident and stylish manner, dash; a strikingly elaborate or colorful display
SYN: style, verse, elan, eclat |
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Persona
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a character in a novel or play; the outward character or role that a person assumes
SYN: personality, image, role |
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Philippic
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bitter verbal attack
SYN: harangue, diatribe ANT: encomium, panegyric |
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Prurient
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having lustful desires or interests; tending to arouse sexual desires
SYN: lascivious, lewd, titillating ANT: prudish, demure |
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Sacrosanct
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very sacred or holy; inviolable; set apart or immune from questioning or attack
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Systematic
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of or pertaining to the entire body; relating to a system or systems
SYN: extensive, comprehensive, system-wide ANT: specific, isolated, confined, localized |
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Tendentious
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intended to promote a particular point of view, doctrine, or cause; biased or partisan
SYN: partial ANT: fair, equitable, disinterested |
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Vicissitude
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a change, variation, or alteration; successive or changing phases or conditions
SYN: fluctuation, vacillation ANT: sameness, eveness |
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Abortive
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failing to accomplish an intended aim or purpose; only partially or imperfectly developed
SYN: miscarried, fruitless ANT: realized, consummated |
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Bruit
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to spread news, reports or unsubstantiated rumors
SYN: noise abroad, blazon ANT: cover up, hush up |
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Contumelious
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insolent or rude in speech or behavior; insultingly abusive; humiliating
SYN: vituperative, excoriating ANT: laudatory, commendatory, deferential |
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Dictum
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a short saying; an authoritative statement
SYN: maxim, precept, aphorism, axiom |
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Ensconce
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to settle comfortably and firmly in position; to put or hide in a safe place
SYN: lodge, entrench ANT: unseat, oust |
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Iconoclastic
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attacking or seeking to overthrow popular or traditional beliefs, ideas, or institutions
SYN: image-breaking, irreverent, heretical ANT: conservative, reverent, orthodox |
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In medias res
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in or into the middle of a plot; into the middle of things
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Internecine
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mutually destructive; characterized by great slaughter and bloodshed
SYN: murderous, savage, ruinous ANT: peaceful, harmonious, constructive |
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Maladroit
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lacking in skill or dexterity; lacking tact, perception, or judgment
SYN: inept, awkward, gauche ANT: dexterous, deft, tactful |
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Maudlin
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excessively or effusively sentimental
SYN: mushy, mawkish |
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Modulate
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to change or vary the intensity or pitch; to temper or soften; to regulate. adjust
SYN: adapt, moderate |
