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44 Cards in this Set
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Comprehensive |
including many, most, or all things |
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Elucidate |
to make (something that is hard tounderstand) clear or easy tounderstand |
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Rife |
very common and often bad orunpleasant |
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Deficient |
not having enough of somethingthat is important or necessary: not good enough : not as good asothers |
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Mortify |
to cause (someone) to feel veryembarrassed and foolish |
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Zealous |
feeling or showing strong andenergetic support for a person,cause, etc. : filled with zeal |
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Polemical |
Of or involving dispute or controversy |
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Divisive |
Disagree with the majority |
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Hegemonic |
influence or control over anothercountry, a group of people, etc. |
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Incipient |
beginning to develop or exist |
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Nascent |
beginning to exist : recentlyformed or developed |
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Waning |
looking sick or pale: having a weak quality |
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Static |
showing little or no change, action, or progress: of, relating to, or producing staticelectricity |
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Eccentric |
tending to act in strange orunusual ways: strange or unusual: not following a perfectly circularpath |
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Proliferation |
to increase in number or amountquickly |
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Conduit |
a pipe or tube through whichsomething (such as water or wire)passes: someone or something that is usedas a way of sending something(such as information or money) fromone place or person to another |
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Endeavour |
to seriously or continually try to do(something) |
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Inveterate |
Habitual |
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Oblique |
not direct : not stated directlyof a line : having a slanting directionor position : neither perpendicularnor parallel |
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Abysmal |
extremely poor or bad |
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Comely |
pleasing in appearance : pretty orattractive |
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Facile |
too simple : not showing enoughthought or effort: done or achieved in a way that is too easy: working, moving, or performingwell and very easily |
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Inscrutable |
difficult to understand : causingpeople to feel curious or confused |
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Avant-garde |
a group of people who developnew and often very surprising ideasin art, literature, etc. |
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Circuitous |
not straight, short, and direct: not said or done simply or clearly |
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Antediluvian |
very old or old-fashioned |
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Superannuation |
Property of being obsolete |
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Radical |
very new and different from whatis traditional or ordinary |
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Perspicuous |
Transparently clear |
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Recalcitrant |
stubbornly refusing to obey rulesor orders |
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Quaint |
Strange in an interesting or pleasing way |
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Imposing |
very large or impressive |
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Decidedly |
clear and definite : easy to notice |
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Gentrified |
to change (a place, such as an oldneighborhood) by improving it andmaking it more appealing to peoplewho have money |
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Aplomb |
Great coolness and composure under strain |
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Quiescent |
not active |
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Thrall |
a servant slave : bondman; also :serfb : a person in moral or mentalservitude2 a : a state of servitude orsubmission <in thrall to his emotions>b : a state of complete absorption |
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Synergy |
Working together of two things to produce greater effects |
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Conglomeration |
a group or mixture of different things |
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Syllogism |
a formal argument in logic that isformed by two statements and aconclusion which must be true if the two statements are true |
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Lavish |
giving or using a large amount ofsomething: given in large amounts: having a very rich and expensivequality |
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Compendium |
A publication containing a variety of works A concise but comprehensive summary of a larger work |
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Jeremiad |
A long mournful complaint |
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Philippic |
A speech of violent denunciation |
