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72 Cards in this Set
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subliminal |
adj. below conscious awareness |
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submissive |
adj. yielding; timid |
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subordinate |
adj. occupying a lower rank; inferior; submissive |
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suborn |
v. persuade to act unlawfully (especially to commit perjury) |
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subpoena |
n. writ summoning a witness to appear |
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subsequent |
adj. following; later |
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subservient |
adj. behaving like a slave; servile; obsequious |
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subside |
v. settle down; descend; grow quiet |
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subsidary |
b. something secondary in importance or subordinate; auxiliary |
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subsidy |
n. direct financial aid by government, etc. |
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subsistence |
n. means needed to support life; existence |
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substantial |
adj. ample; solid; in essentials |
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substantiate |
v. establish by evidence; verify; support |
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substantive |
adj. real, as opposed to imaginary; essential; solidly based; substantial |
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subterfuge |
n. deceitful stratagem; trick; pretense |
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subtlety |
n. perceptiveness; ingenuity; delicacy |
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subversive |
adj. tending to overthrow; destructive |
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succinct |
adj. brief; terse; compact |
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succor |
v. aid; assist; comfort |
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succulent |
adj. juicy; full of richness |
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succumb |
v. yield; give in; die |
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suffragist |
n. advocate of voting rights (for women) |
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sully |
v. tarnish; soil |
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sultry |
adj. sweltering |
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summation |
n. act of finding the total; summary |
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summit |
n. utmost height or pinnacle; highest point (of a mountain, etc.) |
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sumptuous |
adj. lavish; rich |
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sunder |
v. separate; part |
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supercilious |
adj. arrogant; condescending; patronizing |
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superficial |
adj. trivial; shallow |
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superfluous |
adj. unnecessary; excessive; overabundant |
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superimpose |
v. place of something else |
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supersede |
v. cause to be set aside; replace; make obsolete |
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supplant |
v. replace; usurp |
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supple |
adj. flexible; pliant |
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supplicate |
v. petition humbly; pray to grant a favor |
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suppoosition |
n. hypothesis; the act of supposing |
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suppress |
v. stifle; overwhelm; subdue; inhibit |
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surfeit |
v. satiate; stuff; indulge to excess in anything |
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surly |
adj. rude; cross |
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surmise |
v. suspect; guess; imagine |
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surmount |
v. overcome |
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surpass |
v. exceed |
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surreptitious |
adj. secret; furtive; sneaky; hidden |
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surrogate |
n. substitute |
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surveilance |
n. watching; guarding |
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susceptible |
adj. impressionable; easily influenced; having little resistance, as to a disease; receptive to |
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sustain |
v. experience; support; nourish |
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sustenance |
n. means of support, food, nourishment |
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swagger |
v. behave arrogantly or pompously; strut or walk proudly |
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swarm |
n. dense moving crowd; large group of honeybees |
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swarthy |
adj. dark; dusky |
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swathe |
v. wrap around; bandage |
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swelter |
v. be oppressed by heat |
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swerve |
v. deviate; turn aside sharply |
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swindler |
n. cheat |
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sybarite |
n. lover of luxury |
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sycophant |
n. servile flatterer; bootlicker; yes man |
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symbiosis |
n. interdependent relationship (between groups, sppecies), often mutually beneficial |
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symmetry |
n. arrangement of parts so that balance is obtained; congruity |
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synoptic |
adj. providing a general overview; summry |
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synthesis |
n. combining parts into a whoole |
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table |
v. set aside a resolution or proposal for future consideration |
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tacit |
adj. understood; not put into words |
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tacitum |
adj. habitually silent; talking little |
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tactile |
adj. pertaining to the organs or sense of touch |
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taint |
v. contaminate; cause to lose purity; bodify with a trace of something bad |
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talisman |
n. charm to bring good luck and avert misfortune |
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tangential |
adj. peripheral; only slightly connected; digressing |
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tangible |
adj. able to be touched; real; palpable |
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tantalize |
v. tease; torture with disappointment |
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tantamount |
adj. equivalent in effect or value |
