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36 Cards in this Set
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AG, ACT:
-COGENT: -EXIGENT: -ASSAY: -INTRANSIGENT: |
-“to drive, do”
-strong and to the point; convincing -urgent; pressing -to test, analyze -refusing to compromise |
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CIT:
-INCITE: -RESUSCITATE: -SOLICITOUS: |
-“to stir up, rouse”
-to stir up; to provoke -to bring back to consciousness -showing care or worry |
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TURB:
-PERTURB: -TURBULENT: -TURBID: |
-“disturb”
-to make worried or upset -very excited or upset -cloudy; confused |
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ALACR:
-ALACRITY: |
-“lively”
-lively |
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CELER:
-CELERITY: |
-“quick”
-speed or quickness |
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GEN:
-DEGENERATE: -ENGENDER: -GENRE: |
-“race, type, kind”
-a corrupt wrongdoer -to bring about; to produce -a kind or type of art |
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NASC, NAT:
-COGNATE: -INNATE: -NASCENT: |
-“to be born”
-related to or coming from the same source -natural; present from birth -in the act of being born; growing |
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FIG, FICT:
-TRANSFIGURE: -FICTIVE: -FEIGN: |
-“to shape”
-to change the form of appearance of -not real -to make up or invent; pretend |
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PAR, PER:
-PARTURIENT: -REPERTORY: |
-“to give birth, produce”
-about to bring forth or give birth; pregnant -the range of works an artist can produce or perform |
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VEH:
-VEHEMENT: -INVEIGH: |
-“to drag, to carry”
-strongly emotional, fierce and passionate -to attack strongly in words; to talk or write bitterly against |
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MIS:
-SURMISE: -DEMISE: -REMIT: |
-“to spend, to put”
-to draw a conclusion based on little or no information; to guess -the end of existence; death -to make less or weaker; to forgive or pardon |
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BOL, BLEM:
-EMBLEMATIC: -DIABOLICAL: -HYPERBOLE: |
-“to throw, to cast”
-standing for another thing -of or like a devil; very wicked or cruel -an exaggeration for effect |
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OD:
-EPISODIC: -METHODICAL: -SYNOD: |
-“read, way, coming”
-happening in parts or segments -orderly and regular -a council, especially of churches or church officials |
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PAST:
-PASTORAL: -REPAST: |
-“to feed (especially flocks or herd)”
-having to do with the country -a meal; food and drink for a meal |
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GREG:
-AGGREGATE: -EGREGIOUS: -GREGARIOUS: |
-“herd, flock”
-gathered into a whole; thought of as a group -standing out sharply as wrong or bad -liking to be with other people |
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AGRI:
-AGRARIAN: -PEREGRINATION: |
-“field”
-having to do with farming -the act of traveling about; a journey |
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FRUI:
-FRUITION: -FRUITLESS: |
-“to enjoy, to harvest”
-fulfillment of an effort or desire -yielding no positive result |
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RUS:
-RUSTIC: |
-“country”
-having to do with the countryside; rural |
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COL:
-BUCOLIC: |
-“herdsman”
-having to do with country life or farms |
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ID:
-IDYLLIC: |
-“form, shape, little work of verse”
-simple and pleasant |
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COND:
-ABSCOND: -RECONDITE: |
-“hide, put away”
-to leave in a hurry, especially to escape the law -difficult to understand; hidden from understanding |
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CRYPT:
-CRYPTIC: -APOCRYPHAL: |
-“to hide”
-hard to understand; having a secret meaning -coming from an unreliable source; untrue |
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ERT:
-APERTURE: -OVERT: -COVERT: |
-“uncover or cover”
-an opening or a hole -public, unhidden; open -done in a hidden or secret manner |
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TEXT:
-CONTEXT: -SUBTEXT: -PRETEXT: |
-“weave, cover”
-the circumstances or setting surrounding an event -the hidden or underlying meaning of something -a stated reason for doing something; an excuse |
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MOR, MUR:
-MORATORIUM: -DEMURE: -DEMUR: |
-“delay”
-a formal delay; a suspension -modest and shy -to express unwillingness to do something; to object |
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TEMP:
-EXTEMPORANEOUS: -TEMPORAL: -TEMPORIZE: |
-“time”
-done without planning; improvised -having to do with finite time or everyday life (as opposed to the eternal or spiritual) -to put off making a decision; to stall |
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DIES:
-DIURNAL: -SOJOURN: -ADJOURN: |
-“day”
-happening or active during the day -a short stay or visit -to formally bring to an end |
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CHRON:
-ANACHRONISM: -CHRONICLE: -SYNCHRONOUS: |
-“time”
-anything that seems to be out of its proper time -to tell or write the history of -happening at the same time as |
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PSYCH:
-PSYCHE: -PSYCHOSOMATIC: -PSYCHOTIC: |
-“soul, mind”
-the mind, especially as the center of a person’s being -having an effect on the body, but mental or emotional in origin -having severe mental illness to the point of disconnection from reality |
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ANIMA:
-PUSILLANIMOUS: -ANIMADVERSION: -INANIMATE: |
-“soul, mind, life, spirit”
-timid or cowardly; not brave -strong criticism or blame -without life; unmoving |
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SPIR:
-TRANSPIRE: -CONSPIRE: -ASPIRE: -ESPRIT: |
-“to breathe”
-to take place; to happen -to plan together secretly -to have a strong desire to get or do something -liveliness; high-spiritedness |
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CORD:
-DISCORDANT: -CONCORDANCE: |
-“heart”
-Not agreeing or going well together -agreement or harmony |
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CUR:
-DISCURSIVE: -CONCUR: -SUCCOR: |
-“to run”
-wandering from one topic to another -to agree in an opinion or decision -badly needed help; aid |
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SEQ, SEG, SU:
-OBSEQUIOUS: -SEGUE: -ENSUE: |
-“to follow”
-too willing to serve or obey -movement from one thing to another; transition -to come after; to happen as a result of |
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CED, CES:
-INCESSANT: -CONCEDE: -INTERCEDE: |
-“to go, to yield”
-going on without stopping; seemingly never-ending -to admit that something is true; to give up -to ask or plead with on behalf of another |
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PET:
-PERPETUITY: -PERPETUATE: |
-“to seek, to go towards”
-a time period lasting through the ages; eternity -to cause to continue; to further |
