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24 Cards in this Set
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EMINENT
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OF HIGH REPUTATION; OUTSTANDING
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STEEPED
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SOAKED, DRENCHED, SATURATED
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INDISCRIMINATE
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CHOOSING AT RANDOM WITHOUT CAREFUL SELECTION
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VORACIOUS
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DESIRING OR CONSUMING GREAT QUANTITIES
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REPLETE
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COMPLETELY FILLED OR SUPPLIED WITH
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PROGNOSTICATE
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To predict or foretell a future event
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AUTOMATON
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a robot; a mechanical "person"
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ABOUND
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to exist in great numbers
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OMINOUS
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THREATENING
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PLACATE
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Change a feeling of hostility to one of friendliness
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IMMINENT
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About to happen, occur or take place
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DEMAGOGUE
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1 : a leader who makes use of popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power
2 : a leader championing the cause of the common people in ancient times |
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RABBLE ROUSER
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one that stirs up (as to hatred or violence) the masses of the people : demagogue
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ESOTERIC
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limited to a small circle
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PREVALENT
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prev·a·lent\ˈpre-və-lənt, ˈprev-lənt\
adjective 1 archaic : powerful 2 : being in ascendancy : dominant 3 : generally or widely accepted, practiced, or favored : widespread prevalent noun prev·a·lent·ly adverb Examples the kinds of accidents seen in places where snowmobiles are prevalent Origin: Latin praevalent-, praevalens very powerful, from present participle of praevalēre. First use: 1576 Synonyms: conventional, customary, going, popular, prevailing, current, standard, stock, usual Antonyms: nonstandard, unconventional, unpopular, unusual |
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TINGE
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1 a : to color with a slight shade or stain : tint
b : to affect or modify with a slight odor or taste 2 : to affect or modify in character |
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PARADOX
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1 : a tenet contrary to received opinion
2 a : a statement that is seemingly contradictory or opposed to common sense and yet is perhaps true b : a self-contradictory statement that at first seems true c : an argument that apparently derives self-contradictory conclusions by valid deduction from acceptable premises 3 : one (as a person, situation, or action) having seemingly contradictory qualities or phases |
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REALM
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Special field of something o someone; kingdom
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ANNALS
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1 : a record of events arranged in yearly sequence
2 : historical records : chronicles 3 : records of the activities of an organization |
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IDIOM
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an expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements; AN EXPRESSION OR PHRASE
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CONSTITUENT
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1 : one who authorizes another to act as agent : principal; A REPRESENTATIVE
2 : a member of a constituency 3 : an essential part : component, element 4 : a structural unit of a definable syntactic, semantic, or phonological category that consists of one or more linguistic elements (as words, morphemes, or features) and that can occur as a component of a larger construction |
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CONSTITUENT
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1 : one who authorizes another to act as agent : principal
2 : a member of a constituency 3 : an essential part : component, element 4 : a structural unit of a definable syntactic, semantic, or phonological category that consists of one or more linguistic elements (as words, morphemes, or features) and that can occur as a component of a larger construction |
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AFFRONT
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1 a : to insult especially to the face by behavior or language
b : to cause offense to <a system of law about both family and marriage that affronted lay society — J. H. Mundy> 2 a : to face in defiance : confront <affront death> b obsolete : to encounter face-to-face 3 : to appear directly before |
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