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47 Cards in this Set
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To compel, force (syn: pressure, bully, intimidate, constrain) |
Coerce |
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Stormy; harsh; severe in attitude or action(syn: bluster, tempestuous, implacable) |
Inclement |
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To make permanent or long lasting (syn: continue, preserve, prolong, indefinitely) |
Perpetuate |
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To set right, remedy, relief from wrong or injury (syn: rectify, correct, mitigate) |
Redress |
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Inflicting or aiming at punishment (syn: penalizing, retaliatory) |
Punitive |
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Display (something) ostentantiously, especially in order to provoke envy or admiration or to show defiance (syn: parade, exhibit, brandish) |
Flaunt |
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Too extreme to bear; intolerable (syn: unbearable, oppressive, overwhelming) |
Insufferable |
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An authoriative order; a decree (syn: edict, law, injunction, order, rule, mandate, directive) |
Ordinance |
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Feeling or appearing casually calm and relaxed; not displaying anxiety, interest, or enthusiasm (unconcerned, cool, calm, blase, indifferent) |
Nonchalant |
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The capacity to live and develop; power of enduring (syn: liveliness, animation, spirit, vivacity, exuberance) |
Vitality |
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A summary, condensed account; an instance that represents a larger reality (syn: abstract, digest, archetype) |
Epitome |
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To violate, trespass, go beyond recognized bounds (syn: encroach, impinge, intrude) |
Infringe |
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To improve, make better, correct a flaw or shortcoming (syn: amend, better) |
Ameliorate |
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One who moves in where he or she is not wanted or has no right to be, an intruder (syn: trespassers, meddler, buttinsky) |
Interloper |
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A period of one thousand years; a period of great joy (syn: chiliad, golden age) |
Millenium |
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Plowed but not seeded; inactive; land left unseeded (syn: unproductive, inert, dormant) |
Fallow |
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To find out (syn: discover, determine, establish) |
Ascertain |
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Spiteful, showing ill-will (syn: malicious, wicked, sinister, malignant) |
Malevolent |
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Exact, careful, attending thoroughly to details; having high moral standards, principled (syn: painstaking, meticulous, conscientious) |
Scrupulous |
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Bubbles formed in or on a liquid; a film of foam sometimes accompanyed by disease or exhaustion (syn: lather, spume, suds, surf) |
Froth |
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To make beautiful woth ornamentation; to heighten the attractiveness of by adding fanciful details (syn: elaborate, embroider, exaggerate, magnify) |
Embellish |
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Having an enlivening or stimulating effect |
Invigorating |
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A feeling of uneasiness about a point especially of conscience or propriety; disturbing emotion (syn: compunction, misgivings, scruple) |
Qualm |
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To treat or operate woth or as if with the hands or by mechanical means especially in a skillful manner; to manage or utilize skillfully (syn: exploit, play {upon}) |
Manipulate |
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To think or believe without supporting evidence; to conjecture or guess (syn: infer, gather) |
Surmise |
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To urge strongly; advice earnestly (syn: entreat, implore, adjure) |
Exhort |
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(N) Poise, assurance, great-self confidence (syn: composure, self-possession, levelheadedness) |
Aplomb |
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(Adj.)Without experience; immature, not fully developed; lacking sophisticated and poise; without feathers (syn: green, raw, unfledged, inexperienced) |
Callow |
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(V)-pompous or overblown in language; full of high-sounding word intended to conceal a lack of ideas (syn: inflated, highfalutin, pretentious) |
Bombastic |
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Exact, careful, attending thoroughly to details; having high moral standards, principled (syn: painstaking, meticulous, conscientious) |
Scrupulous |
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To make beautiful woth ornamentation; to heighten the attractiveness of by adding fanciful details (syn: elaborate, embroider, exaggerate, magnify) |
Embellish |
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To treat or operate woth or as if with the hands or by mechanical means especially in a skillful manner; to manage or utilize skillfully (syn: exploit, play {upon}) |
Manipulate |
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Associated; connected (syn: attached, related, joined) |
Affiliated |
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To erase, obliterate, destroy (syn: delete, efface, annihilate) |
Expunge |
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Easily excused; pardonable (syn: excusable, forgivable) |
Venial |
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Unselfish, concerned with the welfare of others (syn: selfless) |
Altruistic |
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Marked by honor, courtesy, and courage; knightly (syn: gallant, civil, valiant) |
Chivalrous |
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To hold spellbound (syn: bedazzle, enchant, fascinate, mesmerize) |
Enthrall |
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The quality or state of being intense; extreme degree of strength, force, energy, or feeling (syn: ardor, fervency, passion, vehemence, enthusiasm) |
Intensity |
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An initiative toward agreement or action; something introductory (preamble, preliminary, prelude, prologue, warm-up |
Overture |
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A disease or disorder of the animal body; an unwholesome or disordered condition (syn: ailment, complication, disorder, infirmity) |
Malady |
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Alertly watchful especially to avoid danger (syn: attentive, observant, watchful) |
Vigilant |
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To have an intense dislike or hatred for (syn: loathe, abhor, despise, detest) |
Abominate |
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Resulting from chance rather than from an inherent cause or character; accidental, not essential (syn: extrinsic, incidental, fortuitous) |
Adventitious |
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To sympathize with, have pity or sorrow for, share a feeling of distress (syn: feel sorry for, empathize) |
Commiserate |
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To make easy, cause to progress faster (syn: accelerate, facilitate, speed up) |
Expedite |
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To make amends, make up for; to avert (syn: redeem, make amends for, make reparation) |
Expiate |
