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20 Cards in this Set
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With suspicion, distrust, or disapproval |
Askance |
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To make thin or slender; to weaken or lessen in force, intensity, or value. |
Attenuate |
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Gentle, kind; forgiving, understanding; having a favorable or beneficial effect; not malignant |
Benign |
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To find fault in a petty way, carp A trivial objection or criticism |
Cavil |
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One who feigns knowledge or ability; a pretender, imposter, or quack |
Charlatan |
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To kill or destroy a large part of |
Decimate |
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A weak point, failing, minor flaw |
Foible |
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To do without; abstain from, give up |
Forgo |
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Full of or loaded with; accompanied by |
Fraught |
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To toughen, harden; to render used to something by long subjection or exposure |
Inure |
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Emitting or reflecting light, glowing; illuminating |
Luminous |
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Marked by slavish attentiveness; excessively submissive often for purely self interested reasons |
Obsequious |
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Blunt not coming to a point; slow or dull in understanding; measuring between 90° and 180°; not causing a sharp impression |
Obtuse |
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To swing back and forth with a steady rhythm; to fluctuate or waver |
Oscillate |
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Regretful for one's sins or mistakes One who is sorry for wrong doing |
Penitent |
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Having the nature of a command that leaves no opportunity for debate, denial, or refusal; offensively self-assured , dictatorial; determined, resolute |
Peremptory |
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To snub; to repel, drive away A curt rejection, a check |
Rebuff |
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To engage in reconnaissance; to make a preliminary inspection |
Reconnoiter |
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A slaughterhouse; a place of mass bloodshed; a state of complete disorder and confusion, mess |
Shambles |
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Occurring at irregular intervals, having no set plan or order |
Sporadic |
