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21 Cards in this Set
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LUCRATIVE |
Producing money or wealth, profitable
The business has proved to be highly lucrative. |
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EXTRAVAGANT |
Exceeding the limits of reason or necessity, lavish, costly The company has been making extravagant claims about the drug's effectiveness. |
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AVARICE |
A strong desire for wealth or gain, cupidity, greediness
The corporate world is plagued by avarice and a thirst for power. |
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DESTITUTE, IMPOVERISH, INDIGENT |
Suffering from extreme poverty |
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MUNIFICENT |
Very generous
A munificent host who has presided over many charitable events at his mansion |
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PARSIMONIOUS |
Very unwilling to spend money, miserly
Scrooge McDuck (also known as Uncle Scrooge) is a parsimonious Disney duck, who loves his money more than anything in the world and seldom spends any more of it than he has to. |
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DEPRECIATE |
To lower in estimation or esteem (people) , the price or value (thing)
The inflated economy have greatly depreciated the value of the house. |
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REMUNERATE |
To pay someone for work that has been done
The negligent landlord must remunerate those made homeless by the fire by finding new housing for them at his own expense. |
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TRIUMVIRATE |
A group of three people who share a position of authority or power
Among the city's cultural institutions, the art museum, the symphony orchestra, and the opera company reign as the supreme triumvirate. |
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PRETEXT |
A reason that you give to hide your real reason for doing something
She went back to her friend's house on the pretext that she had forgotten her purse. |
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WATERSHED |
A crucial dividing or turning point, line, or factor A watershed moment in her life came when she inherited a reasonable sum of money and was able to start her own coffee shop |
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AUTOCRAT |
Despot, a person who rules with total power
European autocrats once commonly believed that they had received the right to rule directly from God. |
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MANIFESTO |
A written statement declaring publicly the intentions, motives, or views of its issuer, declaration.
The group's manifesto focused on helping the poor and stopping violence |
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DEMARCATE, CIRCUMSCRIBE |
To show the limits or edges of (something), delimit
The boundary between the countries must be clearly demarcated. |
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AMELIORATE × EXACERBATE |
To make (something, such as a problem) better, less painful, etc
Trying to ameliorate the suffering of people who have lost their jobs. |
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CONTIGUOUS |
To describe things that touch each other or are immediately next to each other, adjacent
Connecticut and Massachusetts are contiguous states. |
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PERTINENT |
Relating to the thing that is being thought about or discussed, go to the point of matter
He impressed the jury with his concise, pertinent answers to the attorney's questions. |
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COMPLICITY |
The act of helping to commit a crime or do wrong in some way
There's no proof of her complicity with her brother in the murder. |
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EXCULPATE, EXONERATE |
To prove that someone is not guilty or responsible for a problem, bad situation
The court exculpated him after a thorough investigation. |
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INDISPUTABLE, INCONTROVERTIBLE |
Impossible to question or doubt
An indisputable fact that is not subject to interpretation according to one's political belief. |
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MALFEASANCE |
Wrongdoing or misconduct or dishonest activity especially by a public official or a corporation
The investigation has uncovered evidence of corporate malfeasance at the governor offices. |
