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54 Cards in this Set
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Hallux
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The "big toe" on a primate or the hind foot of other mammals. In birds, it is the homologous digit.
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milieu
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Surroundings, especially of a social or cultural nature. "A snobbish mileu." Synonyms include background, sphere, setting or environment.
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Chalumeau
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1. Music: the low register of the clarinet
2. a 17th or 18th century woodwind instrument |
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Sycophant
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a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite. Syn: Toady, Yes man, Fawner, flatterer
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servile
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1. slavishly submissive or obsequious; fawning: servile flatterers
2. being in slavery, oppressed 3. yielding slavishly; truckling (usually followed by "to") |
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avowed
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to state positively
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vigil
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a period of purposeful sleeplessness, an occasion for devotional watching or observance
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plaudits
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1. an act or round of applause
2. enthusiastic approval - usually used in plural: (..received the plaudits of the critics) |
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Laodicean
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lukewarm or indifferent in religion or politics
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pococurante
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indifferent, nonchalant
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prospicience
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the act of looking forward, foresight
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succedaneum
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a person or thing that take the place or function of another
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iogorrhea
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excessive talkativeness or wordiness
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delitescent
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lying hidden, obfuscated, latent
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eleemosynary
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of, relating to, or supported by charity
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gauche
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lacking social experience or grace
not tactful, crude |
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infra dig; "infra dignitatem"
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beneath one's dignity. "Drug store brands are too infra dig for my glamorous sister!"
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rheum
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the thin discharge of mucous membranes, especially during a cold. also called catarrh. It's the stuff that forms in your eyes.
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pulchritudinous
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physically beautiful; comely
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loquacious
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very talkative; garrulous
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resplendent
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brilliant; splendid or dazzling in appearance
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paramour
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a lover, especially one in an adulterous relationship
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beau
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a frequent and attentive male companion
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beau geste
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a gracious gesture
a gracious gesture that has no meaning, substance behind it |
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abase
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n. to bring down the status or reputation of; degrade. (abasement)
opp: exalt |
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abash
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v. to cause to feel embarrassed or uneasy
opp: embolden |
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abject
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adj. without pride; humble; wretched: an abject apology for the wrong. n abjectness
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abound
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v. to be or grow in a large number or amount; teem (Rabbits abound in these woods) adj. abundant
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abrogate
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v. to abolish, repeal or set aside (Congress abrogated the treaty)
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sibylline
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prophetic, oracular
mysterious; cryptic |
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squelch
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v. 1. to put, suppress, or silence, as with a crushing retort or argument 2. to strike or press with crushing force; to crush down 3. to make a splashing sound 4. to tread heavily in water, mud, we shoes, etc. with such a sound
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rataplan
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v. 1. to produce the sound as the beating of a drum 2. a tattoo, as of a drum, the hooves of a galloping horse, or machine-gun fire. (As his one stick beat, rataplanning as best it might alone, his ghastly face, turned backward, saw the first man)
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vespertine
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adj. 1. of, relating to, or occurring in the evening
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evanescence
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n. 1. a gradual dissappearance 2. the state of becoming imperceptible
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snuff
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1. to extinguish or suppress 2. to cut off or remove the snuff (candles, tapers, etc.)
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tantivy
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adj. swift; rapid adv. at full gallop n. a rush, a gallop or stampede int. (used as a hunting cry when the chase is at full speed)
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goad
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to prod; incite
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swain
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a male admirer or lover
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fathom
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to penetrate to the truth of
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noctivagant
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pertaining to wandering at night
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ruth
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pity or compassion
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vernacular
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the plain variety of language in everyday use
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quintessential
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being the most typical
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festoon
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to adorn with hanging chains or strands of any material
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oscitant
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yawning, as with drowsiness
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Manichean \man-i-KEE-unn
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adj. pertaining to a strongly dualistic worldview (And in such a Manichean national landscape of villains and heroes, either the government, the Church, or the "rich" hoodwinked the noble people into doing what they in retrospect should not have.
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couvade \koo-VAHD
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a practice in certain cultures in which the husband of a woman in labor takes to his bed as though he were bearing the child
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yaw
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v. to move unsteadily; weave
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macabre
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adj. gruesome and horrifying/pertaining to or representing death, esp. its grimmer or uglier aspect
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omnific
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having unlimited powers of creation
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iatrogenic
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(of a medical disorder) caused by the actions of a physician
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vamoose
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to leave hurriedly or quickly; decamp
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perpend
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to ponder; deliberate
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muliebrity
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womanly nature or qualities
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