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60 Cards in this Set
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Acquisitive |
(Adj) able to get and retain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring wealth or property. |
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Arrogate |
(V) to claim or take without right |
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Banal |
(Adj) hackneyed, trite, commonplace |
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Belabor |
(V) to work on excessively; to thrash soundly |
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Carping |
(Adj) tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way; (n) petty, nagging criticism |
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Coherent |
(Adj) holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible, meaningful |
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Congeal |
(V) to change from liquid to solid, thicken; to make inflexible or rigid |
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Emulate |
(V) to imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model |
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Encomium |
(N) a formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute |
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Eschew |
(V) to avoid, shun, keep away from |
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Germane |
(Adj) relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting |
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Insatiable |
(Adj) so great or demanding as not to be satisfied |
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Intransigent |
(Adj) refusing to compromise, irreconcilable |
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Invidious |
(Adj) offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness and resentment |
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Largesse |
(N) generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributions |
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Reconnaissance |
(N) a survey made for military purposes; any kind of preliminary inspection or examination |
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Substantiate |
(V) to establish by evidence, prove; to give concrete or substantial form to |
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Taciturn |
(Adj) habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little |
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Temporize |
(V) to stall or act evasively in order to gain time, avoid a confrontation, or postpone a decision; to compromise |
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Tenable |
(Adj) capable of being held or defended |
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Accost |
(V) to approach and speak to first; to confront in a challenging or aggressive way |
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Animadversion |
(N) a comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval |
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Avid |
(Adj) desirous of something to the point of greed; intensely eager |
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Brackish |
(Adj) having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink |
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Celerity |
(N) swiftness, rapidity of motion or action |
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Devious |
(Adj) straying or wandering from a straight or direct course; done or acting in a shifty or underhanded way |
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Gambit |
(N) in chess, an opening move that involves risk or sacrifice of a minor piece in order to gain a later advantage; any opening move of this type |
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Halcyon |
(N) a legendary bird identified with the kingfisher; (adj) of or relating to the halcyon; calm, peaceful; happy, golden; prosperous, affluent |
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Histrionic |
(Adj) pertaining to actors and their techniques; theatrical, artificial; melodromatic |
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Incendiary |
(Adj) deliberately setting or causing fires; designed to start fires; tending to stir up strife or rebellion; (n) one who deliberately sets fires, arsonist; one who causes strife |
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Maelstrom |
(N) a whirlpool of great size and violence; a situation resembling a whirlpool in violence and destruction |
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Myopic |
(Adj) nearsighted; lacking a broad, realistic view of a situation; lacking foresight or discernment |
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Overt |
(Adj) open, not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that is easily recognized |
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Pejorative |
(Adj) tending to make worse; expressing disapproval or disparagement, derogatory, deprecatory, belittling |
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Propriety |
(N) the state of being proper, appropriateness; (pl.) Standards of what is proper or socially acceptable |
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Sacrilege |
(N) improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred |
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Summarily |
(Adv) without delay or formality; briefly, concisely |
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Suppliant |
(Adj) asking humbly and earnestly; (n) one who makes a request humbly and earnestly, a petitioner, suitor |
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Talisman |
(N) an object that serves as a charm or is believed to confer magical powers, an amulet, fetish |
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Undulate |
(V) to move in waves or with a wafelike motion; to have a wafelike appearance or form |
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Articulate |
(V) to pronounce distinctly; to express well in words; to connect by a joint or joints; (adj) expressed clearly and forcefully; able to employ language clearly and forcefully; jointed |
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Cavort |
(V) to romp or prance around exuberantly; to make merry |
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Credence |
(N) belief, mental acceptance |
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Decry |
(V) to condemn, express strong disapproval; to officially depreciate |
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Dissemble |
(V) to disguise or conceal, deliberately give a false impression |
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Distraught |
(Adj) very much agitated or upset as a result of emotion or mental conflict |
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Eulogy |
(N) a formal statement of commendation; High praise |
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Evince |
(V) to display clearly, to make evident to provoke |
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Exhume |
(V) to remove from a grave; to bring to light |
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Feckless |
(Adj) lacking in spirit and strength; ineffective, weak; irresponsible, unreliable |
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Murky |
(Adj) dark and gloomy, obscure; lacking in clarity and precision |
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Nefarious |
(Adj) wicked, depraved, devoid of moral standards |
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Piquant |
(Adj) stimulating the taste or mind; spicy pungent; appealingly proactive |
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Primordial |
(Adj) developed or created at the very beginning; going back to the most ancient times or earliest stage; fundamental, basic |
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Propinquity |
(N) nearness in place or time; kinship |
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Unwonted |
(Adj) not usual or expected; not in character |
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Utopian |
(Adj) founded upon or involving a visionary view of an ideal world; impractical |
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Verbiage |
(N) language that is too wordly or inflated in proportion to the sense or content, wordiness; a manner of expression |
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Verdant |
(Adj) green in tint or color; immature in experience or judgement |
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Viscous |
(Adj) having a gelatinous or gluey quality, lacking in easy movement or fluidity |