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72 Cards in this Set
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Elucidate |
Make clearer and Easier to Understand |
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Enervate |
Sap energy from |
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Didactive |
Instructive |
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Diffident, Timorous |
Lack of self-confidence |
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Contrition |
Guilt that comes from doing something bad |
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Conspicuous |
Completely Obvious |
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Circumvent |
Cleverly find a way |
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Esoteric |
Understand by enlightened inner circle |
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Exonerate |
Pronounce not guilt |
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Fallacious |
Belief that is based on faulty reasoning |
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Fastidious |
Overly concerned with details |
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Opaque, unfathomable, inscrutable |
Not clearly to understood or expressed |
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Parochial |
Narrowly restricted in scope, khet |
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Pernicious |
Extremely harmful |
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Petulant |
Easily irritated |
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Placate |
Favorably inclined |
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Precipitous |
Done suddenly without any care |
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Lambast |
Criticize severly |
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Languid |
Slow nd relax |
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Largess |
Generosity nd giving |
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Inveterate |
Habitual |
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Arduous |
Testing power of endurance |
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Fortuitous |
Unexpected incident(happy) |
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Forlorn |
Hopelessness |
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Frivolous |
Not serious in content |
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Furtive |
Marked by quite caution and secrecy |
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Profligate prodigal |
Spending Money recklessly |
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Prolific |
Intellutual productivity |
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Propitious |
Show sign of success |
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Rebuke |
Criticize aggressively |
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Recondite |
Difficult to penetrate |
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Ostracize |
Exclude from a community |
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Parochial, provincial |
Khet manush |
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Nuance |
Subtle different of meaning,attitude |
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Mendacity |
Tendency to be untruthful |
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Torpor |
Inactivity from lack of energy |
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Temperence |
Avoiding excessive thing |
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Tortous |
Not straightforward |
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Venality |
Condition of being susceptible to Corruption |
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Venerated |
Depply respect |
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Vindicate |
Clear accuusation,blame |
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Vociferous |
Too loudly |
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Volubility |
Quality of talking, writing continuously |
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Contrive |
Pull of a plan or scheme |
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Culminate |
Reach the highest or most decisive point |
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Culpability |
State of guilt |
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Eminent |
Standing above others in quality |
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Gall, impertinent,impudent, insolent |
Rude |
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Glut,Copious |
Excessive supply |
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Haphazard |
Marked by great carelessnes |
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Hegemony |
Dominance over a certain area |
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Heretic |
Unorthodox opinion |
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Iconoclast |
Attack belief,Defying tradition |
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Ignominious |
Bringing disgrace |
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Incongruous |
Lacking in harmony |
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Incorrigible |
Impervious to correction by punishment |
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Indifference, unscrupulous |
Not to care |
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Ingratiate |
Gain favor from somebody with deliberate effort |
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Intransigent |
Unwilling to change belief |
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Mercurial |
Unexpected change in mood |
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Obscure |
Make unclear,known by only few |
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Parsimonious |
Extremely frugal |
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Pejorative |
Expressing Disaproval |
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Perfidy |
Act of betrayal |
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Pragmatice |
Guided by practical experiences |
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Preclude, inexorable |
Prevent |
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Prevaricate |
Speak in an evasive way |
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Refractory |
Stubborly resistant to authority |
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Specious,spurious |
Implausible, fake act |
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Sporadic |
Scattered |
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Superfluous |
Unnecessary |
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Tenacious |
Adamant, tera |
