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30 Cards in this Set
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Dissipated |
overindulging in sensual pleasures. |
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Dogmatic |
inclined to lay down principles as incontrovertibly true. |
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Efface |
erase (a mark) from a surface. make oneself appear insignificant or inconspicuous. |
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Elicit |
evoke or draw out (a response, answer, or fact) from someone in reaction to one's own actions or questions. |
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Eloquence |
fluent or persuasive speaking or writing. |
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Elucidate |
make (something) clear; explain. |
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Encumbrance |
a burden or impediment. |
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Enmity |
the state or feeling of being actively opposed or hostile to someone or something. |
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Essence |
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Forlorn |
pitifully sad and abandoned or lonely. |
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Fortuitous |
happening by accident or chance rather than design. |
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Furtive |
attempting to avoid notice or attention, typically because of guilt or a belief that discovery would lead to trouble; secretive. |
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Gaunt |
lean and haggard, especially because of suffering, hunger, or age. |
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Gratuitous |
uncalled for; lacking good reason; unwarranted. |
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Guile |
sly or cunning intelligence. |
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Heed |
pay attention to; take notice of. |
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Heirachies |
a system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority. |
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Homogenous |
of the same kind; alike. |
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Hyperbole |
exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. |
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Idiom |
a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words (e.g., |
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Ileterate |
unable to read or write. |
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Illusory |
based on illusion; not real. |
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Imbibing |
drink (alcohol). absorb or assimilate (ideas or knowledge). |
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Immaterial |
unimportant under the circumstances; irrelevant. |
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Imminent |
about to happen. |
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Impassive |
not feeling or showing emotion. |
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Imerceptible |
impossible to perceive. |
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Imposition |
the action or process of imposing something or of being imposed. |
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Inadvertent |
not resulting from or achieved through deliberate planning. |
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Inane |
silly, stupid
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