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22 Cards in this Set
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jejune
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adj- lacking nutritional value; immature
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credulous
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adj- easily deceived; gullible
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infirmity
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n- a weakness or ailment (physical, mental, or moral)
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berate
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v- to scold sharply
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expatiate
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v- to expand on, write, or talk at length on
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deplete
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v- to diminish greatly
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extraneous
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adj- irrelevent, not essential; coming from the outside
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inception
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n- the beginning, the start, the earliest stages of a process or institution
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criterion (sing.)
criteria (pl.) |
standard; rule
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amenable
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adj- willing to follow advice or authority, tractable, submissive
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carnage
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n- a large scale slaughter or loss of life
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obdurate
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adj- stubborn, unyeilding
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ostensible
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adj- apparent, appearing to be true or actual; capable of being shone
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potpourri
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n- a mixture of random things; petals mixed with spices for scent
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precocious
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adj- showing unusually early development and mental capacity
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providential
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adj- happening through divine intervention; characterized by good fortune
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sadistic
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adj- delighting in cruelty or excessively cruel
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sententious
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adj- often using wise sayings; characterizezd by being moral; saying much in few words, pithy
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supplicate
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v- to beg humbly
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surfeit
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n- an excess or over-indulgence; v- to feed or supply in excess
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tortuous
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adj- winding, twisting; highly involved or complex
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turgid
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adj- swollen or bloaded, filled to excess; over decoraded or excessive in language; bombastic
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