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21 Cards in this Set
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Abeyance (uh bay uhns) |
Temporary suppression or suspension |
The baseball game was held in abeyance while it continued to rain. |
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Adulterated (uh duhl tuhr ayt) |
To make impure |
The restaurateur made his ketchup last longer by adulterating it with water |
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Affected (uh fehk tihd) |
Phony; artificial |
The affected hairdresser spouted French phrases, though she had never been to France. |
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Amalgamate (uh maal guh mayt) |
To combine; mix together |
Giant Industries amalgamated with Mega Products to form Giant-Mega Products Incorporated. |
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Analogous (uh naal uh guhs) |
Similar or alike in some way; equivalent to |
His mother argued that not going to college was analogous to throwing his life away. |
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Arbitrary (ahr bih trayr Ee) |
Determine by chance or impuse |
When you lack thr information to judge what too next, or will be forced to make an arbitrary decision. |
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Arbitrate (ahr bih trayr) |
To judge a dispute between two opposing parties |
Since the couple could not come to an agreement, a judge was forced to arbitrate their divorce proceedings. |
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Audacious (aw day shuhs) |
Fearless, daring |
The audacious peasant dared to insult the king's mother. |
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Austere (aw steer) |
Severe or Stern in appearance; undecorated |
The lack of decorations makes Zen temples seem austere to the untrained eye. |
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Axiom (aak see uhm) |
Premise; postulate; self-evident truth |
Adage, apothegm, aphorism, maxim, rule |
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Banal (buh naal) |
Predictable, clichéd, boring his conversation consisted if banal phrases like 'have a nice day' or 'another day, another dollar'. |
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Belfry (behl free) |
Bell tower; room in which a bell is hung |
🔔, spire, steeple |
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Bombastic (bahm baast ihk) |
Pompous in speech and manner |
Bloated, declaratory, Gustin, grandiose, magniloquent |
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Boor (bohr) |
Crude person; one lacking in manners or taste |
Clod, loud, oaf, vulgarism |
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Coalesce (koh uh lehs) |
To grow together to form a single whole |
Amalgamate, blend, condense, consolidated, fuse, unite |
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Convoluted (kahn vuh loo tehd) |
Intricate and complicated |
Byzantine, complex, elaborated, knotty, labyrinthine |
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Crescendo (kruh sheen doh) |
Steadily increasing in volume or force |
Acme, capstone, climax, crest, culmen, meridian |
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Deference (deh fuh ruhn(t)s) |
Respect; courtesy |
Courtesy, homage, honor, obeisance, respect, reverence, veneration) |
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Demagogue (deh muh gahg) |
A rabble-rouser, usually appealing to emotion or prejudice |
Agitator, inciter, instigator |
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Dilettante (dih luh tahnt) |
Someone with a amateurish and superficial interest in a topic |
Amateur, dabbler, superficial, tyro |
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Discern (dihs uhrn) |
To precive or recognize |
Catch, description, detect, differentiate, espy |
