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12 Cards in this Set
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Syn: sideways, distrustfully, enviously, suspiciously
Ant: straightforwardly; approvingly, trustfully |
Askance
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Syn: boggle, recoil, scruple
Ant: accelerate, quicken, urge Syn: baffle, foil, frustrate, thwart Ant: accomplish, achieve, fulfill, promote |
Balk
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Syn: crude, ignorant, ill-informed, rude, unelightened
Ant: enlightened, learned, refined, urbane, knowledgeable |
benighted
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Syn: cowardly, craven, poltroon, pusillanimous, recreant
Ant: fearless, gallant, heroic |
Dastardly
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Syn: old age, senescence, senility
Ant: adolescence, infancy, youth |
Dotage
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Syn: pilage, plunder, raid
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Foray
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Syn: forrunner, herald, precursor
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Harbinger
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Syn: limber, lissome, supple
Ant: awkward, clumsy, inflexible, stiff, tense, wooden |
Lithe
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Syn: blench, flinch, recoil, shrink, wince
Ant: confront, defy, endure, stand |
Quail
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Syn: Compunction, demur, misgiving, scruple
Ant: cerainty, confidence |
Qualm
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Syn: cast, discard as unwanted
Ant: keep, retain, use |
Slough
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Syn: Accord, award, concede, deign
Ant: Deny, gainsay, refuse, scorn, withhold |
Vouchsafe
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