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20 Cards in this Set
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Allege |
To assert without proof or confirmation |
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Arrant |
Thoroughgoing, out-and-out; shameless, blatant |
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Badinage |
Light and playful conversation |
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Conciliate |
To overcome the distrust of, win over; to appease, pacify; to reconcile, make consistent |
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Countermand |
To cancel or reverse one order or command with another that is contrary to the first |
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Echelon |
One of a series of grades in an organization or field of activity; an organized military unit; a steplike formation or arrangement |
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Exacerbate |
To make more violent, severe, bitter, or painful |
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Fatuous |
Stupid or foolish in a self-satisfied way. |
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Irrefutable |
Impossible to disprove; beyond arguement |
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Juggernaut |
A massive and inescapable force or object that crushes whatever is in its path |
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Lackadaisical |
Lacking spirit or interest, halfhearted |
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Litany |
A prayer consisting of short appeals to God recited by the leader alternating with responses from the congregation; any repetitive chant; a long list |
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Macabre |
Grisly, gruesome, horrible, distressing; having death as a subject |
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Paucity |
An inadequate quantity, scarcity, dearth |
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Portend |
To indicate beforehand that something is about to happen to give advance warning of |
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Raze |
To tear down, destroy completely; to cut or scrape off or out. |
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Recant |
To withdraw a statement or belief to which one has previously been committed, renounce, retract |
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Saturate |
To soak thoroughly, fill to capacity; to satisfy fully |
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Saturnine |
Of a gloomy or surly disposition; cold or sluggish in mood |
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Slough |
To cast off, discard; to get rid of something objectionable or unnecessary; to plod through as if through mud; a mire; state of depression |
