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60 Cards in this Set
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Austere |
Of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor |
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Beneficent |
Doing or producing good |
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Cadaverous |
Of or relating to a corpse |
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Concoct |
Make something by mixing |
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Crass |
So unrefined as to be lacking in discrimination |
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Desecrate |
Violate the sacred character of a place or language |
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Disconcert |
Cause to lose one's composure |
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Grandiose |
Impressive because of unnecessary largeness or grandeur |
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Inconsequential |
Lacking worth or importance |
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Infraction |
A crime less serious than a felony |
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Mitigate |
Lessen or try to lessen the seriousness or extent of |
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Pillage |
Steal goods; take as spoils |
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Prate |
Speak about unimportant matters rapidly and incessantly |
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Punctilious |
Marked by precise accordance with details |
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Redoubtable |
Worthy of respect or honor |
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Reprove |
Take to task |
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Restitution |
A sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury |
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Stalwart |
Having rugged or physical strength |
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Vulnerable |
Capable of being wounded or hurt |
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Acrimonious |
Marked by strong resentment or cynicism |
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Bovine |
Dull and slow-moving and stolid |
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Consternation |
Fear resulting from the awareness of danger |
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Corpulent |
Excessively fat |
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Disavow |
Refuse to acknowledge |
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Dispassionate |
Unaffected by strong emotion or prejudice |
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Dissension |
Disagreement among those expected to cooperate |
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Dissipate |
Spend frivolously and unwisely |
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Expurgate |
Edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate |
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Gauntlet |
A glove of armored leather that protects the hand |
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Hypothetical |
Based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence |
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Ignoble |
Completely lacking nobility in character or purpose |
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Impugn |
Attack as false or wrong |
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Intemperate |
Excessive in behavior |
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Odium |
Hate coupled with disgust |
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Perfidy |
An act of deliberate betrayal |
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Relegate |
Assign to a lower position |
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Squeamish |
Excessively fastidious and easily disgusted |
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Subservient |
Compliant and obedient to authority |
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Susceptible |
Easily impressed emotionally |
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Abate |
Become less in amount or intensity |
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Adulation |
Servile flattery; exaggerated and hypocritical praise |
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Anathema |
A formal ecclesiastical curse accompanied by excommunication |
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Astute |
Marked by practical hard-headed intelligence |
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Avarice |
Reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth |
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Culpable |
Deserving blame or censure as being wrong or injurious |
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Dilatory |
Wasting time |
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Egregious |
Conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible |
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Equivocate |
Be deliberately ambiguous or unclear |
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Evanescent |
Tending to vanish like vapor |
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Irresolute |
Uncertain how to act or proceed |
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Nebulous |
Lacking definite form or limits |
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Novice |
Someone new to a field or activity |
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Penury |
A state of extreme poverty or destitution |
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Pretentious |
Creating an appearance of importance or distinction |
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Recapitulate |
Summarize briefly |
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Resuscitate |
Cause to regain consciousness |
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Slovenly |
Negligent of neatness especially in dress and person |
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Supposition |
A message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence |
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Torpid |
Slow and apathetic |
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Debase |
Make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance |
