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16 Cards in this Set
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Feckless |
Incompetent and lazy |
People with incomplete relations **** less |
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Bustle |
To move about quickly |
Volcano busts quickly and move to another |
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Dispatch |
Speed at completing tasks |
Courier gets delivered at high speed |
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Celerity |
To move swiftly |
Celebrity’s Taylor swift moves quickly |
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Assiduous |
Working painstaking to get the job done |
Duos acidity is pain in the ass but still gets work done |
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Portmanteau |
2 distinct words forms new work |
Port and man makes port man |
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Archaic |
Old word which is no longer in use |
Arch makes word looks old |
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Barbarism |
Word that does not obey the rules of written language |
Barbar writes in such a way which doesn’t follow literal rules |
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Eponymous |
Place named after person |
Nipon is named aEpon |
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Bombastic |
Highly inflated and self important |
Bombay got inflated with slums and Urbans |
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Turgid |
Highly pompous writing |
Hagrid writes up all puffed up |
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Sesquipedalian |
One who likes long words |
Sesqui is amazed with lengthy words |
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Pedantic |
Overly fussy about one’s trivial academic knowledge |
Pedro fusses about his dance moves |
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Unlettered |
Illiterate |
Person who thinks there is no letter even though there is letter |
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Benighted |
Enlightened |
Knight was known for his skill of understanding |
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Collegial |
Warm chumminess between associated people |
Group of Friends from college made a new comer warm and welcomed |
