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34 Cards in this Set
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Defer
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1. To postpone; to delay.
2. To yield respectfully to the opinion or will of another. |
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Dilatory
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Tending to delay or postpone.
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Infer
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1. To use available evidence to form a conclusion.
2. To guess. |
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Perennial
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1. Lasting for an indefinitely long time.
2. Continuing regularly. 3. Living longer than two years, said especially of plants. |
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Permeate
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To penetrate through spaces; to spread throughout.
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Persevere
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To hold fast to a task or purpose despite handicaps of obstacles.
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Adversity
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Hardship; misfortune.
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Avert
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1. To turn away (one's eyes)
2. To prevent. |
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Distort
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1. To change something to make it false.
2. To twist (something) out of its natural shape. |
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Introvert
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A person whose thoughts and interests and directed inward.
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Prose
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1. Ordinary speech or writing without rhyme or meter (that is, without verse) [not poetry]
2. Referring to speech or writing other than verse. |
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Retort
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1. To reply quickly and sharply, often as if in reply to an accusation.
2. A quick, witty, sometimes biting reply. |
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Subservient
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Excessively willing to yield; submissive.
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Exhilarate
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To cheer; to stimulate; to enliven.
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Exonerate
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1. To free from blame.
2. To relieve of a task. |
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Exorbitant
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Excessive.
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Expound
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To set forth an explanation or view of something in detail. [synonym: extrapolate]
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Impose
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1. To set up, or to force something (or oneself) on others.
2. To take unfair advantage of someone. |
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Impostor
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One who deceives by using a false identity.
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Proponent
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One who argues in support of something.
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Extraneous
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1. Coming from the outside, foreign.
2. Not essential or vital. |
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Extrovert
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A person chiefly interested in things outside the self, directing thoughts outward rather than inward.
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Medium
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1. A substance or element though which something is transmitted.
2. A person thought to have communication with spirits of the dead. |
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Obseqious
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Excessively willing to yield to others.
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Sequester
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1. To go into hiding; to seek solitude.
2. To isolate. |
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Abstain
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To refrain from something by one's choice.
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Commodious
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Spacious, roomy, as in a house.
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Pertinacious
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Holding firmly, even stubbornly, to a belief.
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Tenacity
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Hanging on to something persistently or stubbornly.
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Adjunct
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An added part not essential to the whole.
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Injunction
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An authoritative command or order.
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Juncture
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1. A serious state of affairs.
2. The condition or point of being joined. |
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Stringent
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1. Severe; constricted; tight.
2. Pertaining to a scarcity of money. |
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Subjugate
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To conquer; to dominate completely.
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