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76 Cards in this Set

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Abate

lessen in intensity

Accolade

expression of praise

Adulation

excessive praise

Aesthetic

dealing with beauty

Ameliorate

to make better

Ascetic

self-denial, oftentimes as a result of religious practices

Avarice

greed

Axiom

fact

Burgeon

grow rapidly

Bucolic

pastoral

Cacophony

bad sound

Canon

traditional principle

Castigation

punishment

Catalyst

causes change

Caustic

burning or stinging

Chary

wary, cautious

Cogent

convincing

Complaisance

willing to comply with the wishes of others

Contentious

argumentative

Contrite

regretful, penitent

Culpable

deserving blame

Dearth

lack of

Demur

to question or oppose

Didactic

intended to teach

Discretion

cautious reserve

Disinterested

showing no care

Dogmatic

expressing a rigid opinion based on unproved or improvable principles

Ebullience

lively or enthusiastic

Eclectic

composed of elements drawn from many sources

Elegy

mournful poem

Emollient

soothing, making less harsh

Empirical

based on observation

Enigmatic

mysterious, obscure

Ephemeral

fleeting

Esoteric

meant to be understood by a small number

Eulogy

mournful speech to honor dead

Exonerate

remove blame

Facetious

playful, humorous

Fallacy

mistaken belief

Furtive

covert

Gregarious

social

Harangue

lecturing

Heretical

violating accepted dogma

Hyperbole

exaggerated statement

Impecunious

lacking funds

Incipient

beginning to come into being

Inert

unmoving

Innocuous

harmless

Intransigent

refusing to compromise

Inveigle

obtain by deception

Morose

melancholy

Odious

evoking hate

Opaque

impenetrable by light

Oscillation

act of swinging back and forth

Penurious

very thrifty

Pernicious

harmful in a way that isn't easily noticed

Peruse

examine with great care

Pious

reverent

Precursor

something before something else

Preen

to dress up, groom

Prodigious

abundant in size, force

Prolific

producing large quantities

Putrefy

to rot, decay

Quaff

drink deeply

Quiescence

being at rest

Redoubtable

feared, worthy of honor

Sanction

authoritative ruling

Satire

literary work that criticizes with humor

Squalid

sordid, foul

Stoic

unaffected by pleasure or pain

Supplant

overtake

Torpid

lethargic, dormant

Ubiquitous

existing everywhere

Urbane

refined, elegant

Vilify

make into a villain

Viscous

thick, sticky