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100 Cards in this Set
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abjure
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to solemnly renounce
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abrogate
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to repeal
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abstemious
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showing moderation, esp. with food and drink
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acumen
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savvy
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antebellum
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existing before a war (esp. the Civil War)
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auspicious
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favorable
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belie
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1. to disguise
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bellicose
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aggressive, war-like
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bowdlerize
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expurgate
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chicanery
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the use of trickery for political/legal purpose
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chromosome
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a structure of nucleic acids found in cells containing genetic information
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churlish
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rude in a mean-spirited/surly way
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circumlocution
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indirect or prolix in speech
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circumnavigate
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to sail all the way around (esp. the world)
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deciduous
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shedding leaves annually
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deleterious
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causing harm or damage
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diffident
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meek
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enervate
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to weaken, exhaust
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enfranchise
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to give the right to vote to
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epiphany
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a moment of sudden insight
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equinox
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the date (2x/yr) when the lengths of day and night are equal
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euro
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1. european
2. the european currency |
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evanescent
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fleeting, brief
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expurgate
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bowdlerize, to purge inappropriate content from a text
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facetious
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flippant, treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor
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fatuous
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silly and pointless
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feckless
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lacking in efficiency or vitality
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fiduciary
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involving trust
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filibuster
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a prolonged speech to obstruct the legislative process
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gamete
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a mature haploid male or female germ cell (forms a zygote with another gamete of the opposite sex)
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gauche
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unsophisticated, socially awkward
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gerrymander
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to manipulate the results of an election to favor one party or class
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hegemony
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leadership or dominance
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hemoglobin
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a red protein that transports oxygen in the blood
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homogeneous
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uniform in composition
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hubris
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excessive pride or self-confidence
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hypotenuse
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the longest side of a right triangle
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impeach
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to call into question the integrity (of a practice)
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incognito
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having one's true identity concealed
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incontrovertible
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undeniable
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inculcate
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to instill an attitude/habit/idea by persistent instruction
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infrastructure
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the basic physical or organizational structure needed for an operation or enterprise
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interpolate
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to insert; to interject
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irony
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sardonicism
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jejune
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naive and superficial; dry and uninteresting
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kinetic
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of, relating to, or resulting from motion
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kowtow
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to suck up
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laissez faire
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a policy of letting things take their own course
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lexicon
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the vocabulary of a person/branch of knowledge; a dictionary
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loquacious
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talkative, garrulous
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lugubrious
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looking or sounding sad and dismal
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metamorphosis
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a transformation
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mitosis
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cell division
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moiety
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1. each of 2 parts into which a thing can be divided
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nanotechnology
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a branch of technology that deals esp. with the manipulation of atoms and molecules
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nihilism
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the belief that life is meaningless
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nomenclature
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the system of choosing names for things
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nonsectarian
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unrelated to a specific religious sect or political group
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notarize
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to have a document legalized by a notary
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obsequious
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submissive
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oligarchy
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a government in which a small group of people have control
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omnipotent
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having unlimited power (of a deity)
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orthography
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the conventional spelling system of a language
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oxidize
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to combine or become chemically combined with oxygen
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parabola
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the path of a projectile under the influence of gravity
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paradigm
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a standard or typical example, prototype; the generically accepted perspective of a particular discipline at the time
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parameter
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1. a limit or boundary
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pecuniary
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related to money
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photosynthesis
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the process by which plants convert sunlight to glucose
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plagarize
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using someone else's work as your own
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plasma
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the colorless fluid part of blood
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polymer
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a substance created by a chain of similar units
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precipitous
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dangerous, unstable
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quasar
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a massive and extremely remote celestial object
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quotidian
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daily
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recapitulate
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to summarize and state again the main points of
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reciprocal
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done/give/felt in return
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reparation
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the making of amends for wrongs done
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respiration
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breathing
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sanguine
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optimistic, upbeat
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soliloquy
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the act of speaking one's thoughts aloud (esp. in a play)
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subjugate
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to bring under domination or control
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suffragist
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a person advocating the extension of suffrage
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supercilious
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behaving as though one thinks one is superior to others
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tautology
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saying the same thing twice with 2 different words
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taxonomy
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the branch of science concerned with classification
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tectonic
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relating to the structure of the Earth's crust
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tempestuous
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very stormy; having strong and turbulent emotion
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thermodynamics
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the branch of science that deals with relations between heat and other forms of energy
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totalitarian
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related to a centralized and dictatorial regime
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unctuous
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excessively flattering, oily (of a person)
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usurp
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to seize power illegally by force
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vacuous
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mindless
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vehement
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heated, passionate
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vortex
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something regarded as a whirling mass
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winnow
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to find/identify; to remove the chaff from
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wrought
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past tense of "work"
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xenophobe
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irrational fear of foreigners
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yeoman
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a freeholder of land; a servant in a noble/royal household
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ziggurat
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a rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple (ancient Mesopotamia)
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