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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

Burnish

To polish by friction

Candid

Frank; outspoken; open and secure

Augment

To make larger; enlarge in size, number, or extent; increase

Collate

To gather or arrange in their proper sequence

Condescend

To behave as if one is conscious of descending from a superior position, rank, or dignity

Decompose

To separate or resolve into constituent parts or elements; disintegrate

Depreciate

To reduce the purchasing value of

Garble

To confuse unintentionally or ignorantly; jumble

Gear

Machinery

Overt

Open to view or knowledge; not concealed or secret

Pagon

One of a people or community observing a polytheistic religion, as the ancient Romans or Greeks

Palatable

Acceptable or agreeable to the palate or taste; savory

Pall

A cloth, often of velvet, for spreading over a coffin, beir, or tomb

Primordial

Constituting a beginning; giving origin to something derived or developed; origional; elementary

Profane

Characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious

Proffer

To put before a person for acceptance; offer

Profuse

Spending or giving freely and in large amount, often to excess; extravagant

Prolific

Producing offspring, young, fruit, etc. Abundantly; highly fruitful

Promontory

A high point of land or rock projecting into the sea or other water beyond the line of coast; a headland

Prone

Having a natural inclination or tendency to something; disposed; liable

Prose

The ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse

Pungent

Sharply affecting the organs of taste or smell, as if by a penetrating power; biting ; acrid

Prosody

The science or study of poetic meters and verification

Qualm

An uneasy feeling or pang of conscience as to conduct; compunction

Questionable

Of doubtful property, honesty, morality, respectability, etc.

Remonstrate

To say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval

Remuneration

Something that remunerates; reward; pay

Renegade

A person who deserts a party or function for another

Renounce

To give up or put aside voluntarily