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68 Cards in this Set
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Abbreviated Communication |
1. Abridge 2. Compedium 3. Cursory 4. Curtail 5. Syllabus 6. terse |
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Act Quickly |
1. Abrupt 2. Apace 3. headlong 4. impetuous 5. precipitate |
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Assist |
1. Abet 2. Advocate 3. Ancillary 4. bolster 5. corroborate 6. countenance |
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Assist Contd. |
7. espouse 8. mainstay 9. Munificent 10. Proponent 11. Stalwart 12. sustenance |
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Bad Mood |
1. bilious 2. dudgeon 3. irascible 4. pettish 5. petulant 6. pique 7. querulous 8. umbrage 9. waspish |
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Beginner/ Amateur |
1. dilettante 2. fledgling 3. neophyte 4. novitiate 5. proselyte 6. tyro |
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beginning/Young |
1. burgeoning 2. callow 3. engender 4. inchoate 5. incipient 6. nascent |
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Biting (as in wit or temperament) |
1. acerbic 2. acidulous 3. asperity 4. Caustic 5. mordacious 6. mordant 7. trenchant |
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Bold |
1. audacious 2. courageous 3. dauntless |
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Boring |
1. banal 2. fatuous 3. hackneyed 4. insipid 5. mundane 6. pedestrian 7. platitude 8. prosaic 9. quotidian 10. trite |
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Carousal (a riotous drinking party, boisterous drunken merrrymaking or revelry) ****check*** |
1. Bacchanalian 2. debauchery 3 depraved 4. dissipated 5. iniquity 6. libertine 7. libidinous 8. licentious 9. reprobate 10. ribald 11. salacious 12. sordid 13. turpitude |
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changing quickly |
1. capricious 2. mercurial 3. volatile |
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Criticize/Criticism |
1. aspersion 2 belittle 3. berate 4. calumny 5. castigate 6. decry 7. defame/defamation 8. denounce 9. deride/derisive 10. diatribe 11. Disparage |
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Criticize/Criticism Contd. |
12. excoriate 13. gainsay 14. harangue 15. impugn 16. inveigh 17. lambaste 18. objurgate 19. obloquy 20. opprobrium 21. pillory 22. rebuke 23. remonstrate 24. reprehend 25. reprove 26. revile 27. tirade 28. vituperate |
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Death/Mourning |
1. Bereave 2. cadaver 3. defunct 4. demise 5. dolorous 6. elegy 7. knell 8. Lament 9. macabre 10. moribund 11. obsequies 12. sepulchral 13. wraith |
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Denying of Self |
1. abnegate 2. abstain 3. ascetic 4. spartan 5. stoic 6. temperate |
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Dictatorial |
1. Authoritarian 2. despotic 3. dogmatic 4. hegmonic/hegemony 5. imperious 6. peremptory 7. tyrannical |
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Difficult to understand |
1. abstruse 2. ambiguous 3. arcane 4. bemusing 5. cryptic 6. enigmatic 7. esoteric 8. inscrutable 9. obscure 10. opaque 11. paradoxical 12. perplexing 13. recondite 14. turbid |
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Disgusting/Offensive |
1. defile 2. fetid 3. invidious 4. noisome 5. odious 6. putrid 7. rebarbative |
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Easy to Understand |
1. articulate 2. cogent 3. eloquent 4. evident 5. limpid 6. lucid 7. pellucid |
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Eccentric/Dissimilar |
1. aberrant 2. anachronism 3. anomalous 4. discrete 5. eclectic 6. esoteric 7. iconoclast |
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Embarass |
1. abash 2. chagrin 3. compunction 4. contrition 5. diffidence 6. expiate 7. foible 8. gaucherie 9. rue |
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Equal |
1. equitable 2. equity 3. tantamount |
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Falsehood |
1. apocryphal 2. canard 3. chicanery 4. dissemble 5. duplicity 6. equivocate 7. erroneous 8. ersatz |
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Falsehood contd. |
9. fallacious 10. feigned 11. guile 12. mendacious/mendacity 13. perfidy 14. prevaricate 15. specious 16. spurious |
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Family |
1. conjugal 2. consanguine 3. distaff 4. endogamous 5. filial 6. fratricide 7. progenitor 8. scion |
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Favoring/Not impartial |
1. ardent/ardor 2. doctrinaire 3. fervid 4. partisan 5. tendentious 6. zealot |
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Forgive/Make amends |
1. absolve 2. acquit 3. exculpate 4. exonerate 5. expiate 6. palliate 7. redress 8. vindicate |
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Funny |
1. chortle 2. droll 3. facetious 4. flippant 5. gibe 6. jocular 7. levity |
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Funny contd. |
8. ludicrous 9. raillery 10. riposte 11. simper |
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gaps/openings |
1. abatement 2. aperture 3. fissure 4. hiatus 5. interregnum 6. interstice 7. lull 8. orifice 9. rent 10. respite 11. rift |
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generous/Kind |
1. altruistic 2. beneficent 3. clement 4. largess 5. magnanimous 6. munificent 7. philanthropic 8. unstinting |
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Greedy |
1. Avaricious 2. covetous 3. mercenary 4. miserly 5. penurious 6. rapacious 7. venal |
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Hard-Hearted |
1. asperity 2. baleful 3. dour 4. fell 5. malevolent 6. mordant 7. sardonic 8. scathing 9. truculent 10. vitriolic 11. vituperation |
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Harmful |
1. baleful 2. baneful 3. deleterious 4. inimical 5. injurious 6. insidious 7. minatory 8. perfidious 9. pernicious |
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Harsh-Sounding |
1. cacophony 2. din 3. dissonant 4. raucous 5. strident |
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Hatred |
1. Abhorrence 2. Anathema 3. antagonism 4. antipathy 5. detestation 6. enmity 7. loathing 8. malice 9. odium 10. rancor |
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Healthy |
1. beneficial 2. salubrious 3. salutary |
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Hesitate |
1. dither 2. oscillate 3. teeter 4. vacillate 5. waver |
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Hostile |
1. antithetic 2. churlish 3. curmudgeon 4. irascible 5. malevolent 6. misanthropic 7. truculent 8. vindictive |
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Innocent/Inexperienced |
1. credulous 2. gullible 3. ingenuous 4. naive 5. novitiate 6. tyro |
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insincere |
1. disingenuous 2. dissemble 3. fulsome 4. ostensible 5. unctuous |
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Investigate |
1. Appraise 2. Ascertain 3. Assay 4. descry 5. peruse |
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Lazy/Sluggish |
1. Indolent 2. inert 3. lackadaisical 4. languid 5. lassitude 6. lethargic 7. phlegmatic 8. quiescent 9. slothful 10. torpid |
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Luck |
1. adventitious 2. amulet 3. auspicious 4. fortuitous 5. kismet 6. optimum 7. portentous 8. propitiate 9. propitious 10. providential 11. serendipity 12. talisman |
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Nag |
1. Admonish 2. belabor 3. cavil 4. enjoin 5. exhort 6.harangue 7. hector 8. martinet 9. remonstrate 10. reproof |
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Nasty |
1. fetid 2. noisome 3 noxious |
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Not a Straight Line |
1. Askance 2. awry 3. careen 4. carom 5. circuitous 6. circumvent 7. gyrate 8. labyrinth 9. meander 10. oblique 11. serrated 12. sidle 13. sinuous 14. sinuous 15. undulating 16. vortex |
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Overblown/Wordy |
1. bombastic 2. circumlocution 3. garrulous 4. grandiloquent 5. loquacious 6. periphrastic 7. prolix 8. rhetoric 9. turgid 10. verbose |
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Pacify/Satisfy |
1. ameliorate 2. appease 3. assuage 4. defer 5. mitigate 6. mollify 7. placate 8. propitiate 9. satiate 10. slake 11. soothe |
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Pleasant-Sounding |
1. euphonious 2. harmonious 3. melodious 4. sonorous |
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Poor |
1. Destitute 2. esurient 3. impecunious 4. indigent |
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Praise |
1. acclaim 2. accolade 3. aggrandize 4. encomium 5. eulogize 6. extol 7. fawn 8. laud/laudatory 9. venerate/veneration |
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Predict |
1. augur 2. auspice 3. fey 4. harbinger 5. portentous 6. presage 7. prescient 8. prognosticate. |
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Prevent/Obstruct |
1. discomfit 2. encumber 3. fetter 4. forfend 5. hinder 6. impede 7. inhibit 8. occlude |
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Smart/Learned |
1. astute 2. canny 3. erudite 4. perspicacious |
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Sorrow |
1. Disconsolate 2. doleful 3. dolor 4. elegiac 5. forlorn 6. lament 7. lugubrious 8. melancholy 9. morose 10. plaintive 11. threnody |
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Stubborn |
1. implacable 2. inexorable 3. intractable 4. intransigent 5. obdurate 6. obstinate 7. recalcitrant 8. refractory 9. renitent 10. untoward 11. vexing |
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Terse (sparing in the use of words. brief, abrupt) |
1. compendious 2. curt 3. laconic 4. pithy 5, succinct 6. taciturn |
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Time/Order/Duration |
1. anachronism 2. antecede 3. antedate 4. anterior 5. archaic 6. diurnal 7. eon 8. ephemeral 9. epoch 10. fortnight 11. millennium 12. penultimate 13. synchronous 14. temporal |
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Timid/Timidity |
1. Craven 2. diffident 3. pusillanimous 4. recreant 5. timorous 6. trepidation |
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Truth |
1. Candor/Candid 2. fealty 3. frankness 4. indisputable 5. indubitable 6. legitimate 7. probity 8. sincere 9. veracious 10. verity |
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Unusual |
1. Aberration 2. anomaly 3. iconoclast 4. idiosyncrasy |
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Walking About |
1. Ambulatory 2. itinerant 3. meander 4. peripatetic |
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Wandering |
1. discursive 2. expatiate 3. forage 4. itinerant 5. peregrination 6. peripatetic 7. sojourn |
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Weaken |
1. adulterate 2. enervate 3. exacerbate 4. inhibit 5. obviate 6. stultify 7. undermine 8. vitiate |
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Wisdom |
1. Adage 2. aphorism 3. apothegm 4. axiom 5. bromide 6. dictum 7. epigram 8. platitude 9. sententious 10. truism |
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Withdrawal/Retreat |
1. abeyance 2. abjure 3. abnegation 4. abortive 5. abrogate 6. decamp 7. demur 8. recant 9. recidivism 10. remission 11. renege 12. rescind 13. retrograde |
