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20 Cards in this Set
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Animosity (n) |
Strong dislike; bitter hostility |
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Apathy (n) |
A lack of feeling, emotion, or interest. |
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Apprehensive (adj) |
Fearful or anxious, especially about the future. |
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Commend (v) |
To praise, express approval, to present as worthy of attention; to commit to the care of |
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Compatible (adj) |
Able to get along or work well together, capable of use with some other model or system. |
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Condolence (n) |
An expression of sympathy. |
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Consecrate (v) |
To make sacred, hallow, to set apart for a special purpose. |
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Decrepit (adj) |
Old and feeble, worn out, ruined |
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Deride (v) |
To ridicule, laugh at with contempt |
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Ingenuous (adj) |
Innocent, simple, Frank, sincere |
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Multifarious (adj) |
Having great variety, numerous and diverse. |
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Obsolete (adj) |
Out of date, no longer in use |
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Omnivorous (adj) |
Eating every kind of food, eagerly taking in everything having a wife variety of tastes. |
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Parsimonious (adj) |
Stingy, miserly, meager poor and small |
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Quandry (n) |
A state of perplexity or doubt. |
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Recalcitrant (adj) |
Stubbornly disobedient, resisting authority. |
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Reprisal (n) |
An injury done in return for injury. |
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Revel (v) |
To take great pleasure in n. A wild celebration. |
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Stultify (v) |
To make ineffective or useless, cripple, to have a dulling effect on |
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Suave (adj) |
Smoothly agreeable or polite, pleasing to the senses. |