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29 Cards in this Set
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Amiable |
Having or displaying a friendly and pleasant manner |
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Approbation |
Approval or praise |
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Assent |
The expression of approval or agreement |
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Behoove |
It is a duty or responsibility for someone to do something it is incumbent on |
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Cavalier |
Showing a lack of proper concern; offhand |
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Compatriot |
A fellow citizen or national of a country |
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Coquette |
A woman who flirts |
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Cursory |
Hasty and therefore not thorough or detailed |
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Deprecate |
Express disapproval of |
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Diminutive |
Extremely or unusually small |
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Earnest |
Resulting from or showing sincere and intense conviction |
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Ejaculate |
Say something quickly and suddenly |
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Florid |
Having a red or flush complexion or elaborately or excessively intricate or complicated |
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Gallantry |
Courageous behavior especially in battle |
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Imbibe |
Drink alcohol or absorb or assimilate ideas or knowledge |
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Incongruous |
Not in harmony were keeping with the surroundings or other aspects of something |
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Insipid |
Lacking flavor or lacking vigor or interests |
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Interpose |
Place or insert between one thing and another |
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Jocose |
Playful or humorous |
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Lucid |
Expressed clearly easy to understand |
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Meditative |
Of, involving, or absorbed in meditation or considered thought |
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Parapet |
A protective wall along the edge of a roof, bridge, or balcony |
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Pregnant |
Full of meaning, significant or suggestive, or a woman of female animal having a child or young developing in the uterus |
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Puerile |
Childishly silly and trivial |
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Reciprocate |
Respond to a gesture or action by making a corresponding one, or (of a part of machine) move backward and forward in a straight line |
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Retort |
Say something and answer to a remark or accusation, typically in a sharp, angry, or wittily incisive manner |
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Spurious |
Not being what it purports to be, false or fake, or (of a line of reasoning) apparently but not actually valid |
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Traverse |
Travel across or through or move (something) back and forth or sideways |
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Urbane |
( of a person, especially of a man) suave, courteous, and refined in manner |