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30 Cards in this Set
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Acquiesce |
To assent tacitly; submit or comply silently or without protest; agree; consent |
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Burnish |
To polish by friction |
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Candid |
Frank; outspoken; open and secure |
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Augment |
To make larger; enlarge in size, number, or extent; increase |
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Collate |
To gather or arrange in their proper sequence |
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Condescend |
To behave as if one is conscious of descending from a superior position, rank, or dignity |
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Decompose |
To separate or resolve into constituent parts or elements; disintegrate |
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Depreciate |
To reduce the purchasing value of |
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Garble |
To confuse unintentionally or ignorantly; jumble |
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Gear |
Machinery |
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Overt |
Open to view or knowledge; not concealed or secret |
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Pagon |
One of a people or community observing a polytheistic religion, as the ancient Romans or Greeks |
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Palatable |
Acceptable or agreeable to the palate or taste; savory |
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Pall |
A cloth, often of velvet, for spreading over a coffin, beir, or tomb |
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Primordial |
Constituting a beginning; giving origin to something derived or developed; origional; elementary |
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Profane |
Characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious |
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Proffer |
To put before a person for acceptance; offer |
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Profuse |
Spending or giving freely and in large amount, often to excess; extravagant |
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Prolific |
Producing offspring, young, fruit, etc. Abundantly; highly fruitful |
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Promontory |
A high point of land or rock projecting into the sea or other water beyond the line of coast; a headland |
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Prone |
Having a natural inclination or tendency to something; disposed; liable |
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Prose |
The ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse |
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Pungent |
Sharply affecting the organs of taste or smell, as if by a penetrating power; biting ; acrid |
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Prosody |
The science or study of poetic meters and verification |
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Qualm |
An uneasy feeling or pang of conscience as to conduct; compunction |
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Questionable |
Of doubtful property, honesty, morality, respectability, etc. |
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Remonstrate |
To say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval |
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Remuneration |
Something that remunerates; reward; pay |
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Renegade |
A person who deserts a party or function for another |
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Renounce |
To give up or put aside voluntarily |