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15 Cards in this Set
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USURP
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1 a: to seize and hold (as office, place, or powers) in possession by force or without right
b: to take or make use of without right 2: to take the place of by or as if by force : supplant |
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POMP
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1: a show of magnificence : splendor
2: a ceremonial or festival display 3 a: ostentatious display : vainglory b: an ostentatious gesture or act |
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HIGHFALUTINAL
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1 pretentious, fancy
2: expressed in or marked by the use of high-flown bombastic language : pompous |
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PLACARD
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1: a notice posted in a public place : poster
2: a small card or metal plaque |
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UNSTINTING
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not restricting or holding back : giving or being given freely or generously
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FIREBUG
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incendiary, pyromaniac
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DUBIETY
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1 : a usually hesitant uncertainty or doubt that tends to cause vacillation 2 : a matter of doubt
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OBTRUDE
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1: to thrust out: extrude
2: to force or impose (as oneself or one's ideas) without warrant or request 1.to become unduly prominent or interfering: intrude |
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BUNGLE
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1 to act or work clumsily and awkwardly
2 mishandle , botch |
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DAVENPORT
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1: a small compact writing desk
2: a large upholstered sofa often convertible into a bed |
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REPLETE
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1: a small compact writing desk
2: a large upholstered sofa often convertible into a bed |
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LEVITATE
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to rise or float in or as if in the air especially in seeming defiance of gravitation
to cause to levitate |
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FRIGORIFIC
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causing cold : chilling
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SPOONY
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1: silly, foolish; especially unduly sentimental
2: being sentimentally in love |
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PLEONASM
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1: the use of more words than those necessary to denote mere sense
2: an instance or example of pleonasm |