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30 Cards in this Set
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Alluring |
to attract with something desirable; entice |
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Curtail |
to cut short; abbreviate |
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Disdain |
to regard or treat with haughty contempt; despise |
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Flaunt |
to exhibit ostentatiously or shamelessly |
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Impetuous |
marked by sudden and forceful energy or emotion |
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Pervade |
(especially of a smell) spread through and be perceived in every part of |
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Pestilent |
destructive to life; deadly |
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Sedate |
calm, dignified, and unhurried |
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Solace |
comfort or consolation in a time of distress or sadness |
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Stagnation |
the state or condition of stagnating, or have stopped |
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Anachronism |
something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time |
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Anthropomorphic |
ascribing human form or attributes to a being or thing not human, especially to a deity |
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Dehydration |
the act or process of dehydrating |
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Euthanasia |
painless death |
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Genealogy |
a record or account of the ancestry and decent of a person, family, or group |
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Hierarchy |
any system of persons or things ranked one above another |
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Hypodermic |
any system of persons or things ranked one above another |
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Periphery |
the external boundary of any surface or area |
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Psychopath |
a person with a psychopathic |
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Traumatic |
of, or relating to, or produced by a trauma or wound |
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Cognition |
the act or process of knowing; perception |
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Corpulent |
large or bulky of body; portly; stout; fat |
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Dormant |
lying asleep or as if asleep |
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Elaborate |
worked out when great care and nicety of detail; executed |
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Innovate |
to introduce something new; make changes in anything established |
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Insoluble |
incapable of being dissolved |
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Interrogation |
the act of interrogating; questioning |
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Sentiment |
an attitude toward something; regard; opinion |
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Sonorous |
giving out or capable of giving out a sound, especially a deep, resonant sound, as a thing or place |
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Transcribe |
to make a written copy, especially a typewritten copy, of (dictated material, notes taken during a lecture, or other spoken material) |
