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69 Cards in this Set

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Cow(v)

To intimidate

Woo

Court, to seek to achieve

Teach

To show

Predilection

Condition of favoring or liking

Impediments

Hindrance

Canonize

To establish as a formal standard rule, to glorify

Promulgate

To make known or public, to put into effect

Marginalize

To relegate(banish) a topic or people

Confounded

Confused

Witty

Wise, having good judgement, intelligent

Insipid

Boring, tasteless

Feckle

Lacking purpose, ineffective, incompetent

Luminary

One who has achieved success in his chosen field

Scintillating

Brilliant

Incendiary

Explosive environment, emotionally charged

Efflorescence

Rapid blossom of a culture or civilisation

Tepid

Uninterested, neither warm nor cool

Prescient

Having knowledge of events before they take place

Lucrative

Profitable

Serendipity

Unexpected but good

Blemish

A small flaw,

Kindred

Kinship, close

Incense

Enraged

Integrative

Tending toward

Heterodox

Iconoclastic

Sporadic

Rare and scattered in occurrence

Prolix

Tediously lengthy

Impecunious

Poor, penniless

Penchant

Taste, liking, inclination

Herald

Harbinger

Panacea

Cure all

Staple

Essential supply, raw material

Cursory

Hasty, superficial, careless

Canny

Careful, cautious, frugal, shrewd

Arcane

Obscure

Sanguine

Having color of blood, warm, optimistic

Opulent

Luxuriant, rich

Bucolic

Relating to rural life

Mundane

Ordinary, tedious

Impetus

Something that impels(to urge a person)

Cloying

Unpleasantly excessive

Hidebound

Stubborn, narrow minded

Scuffle

A close, disorderly fight

Acerbic

Tasting sour, sharp, harsh, biting

Buoyant

Lighthearted and lively

Premonitory

Serving as warning

Temperate

Moderate, not extreme

Foibles

Weakness, fault

Provincial

Narrow, illiberal

Obstinate

Stubborn

Stanch

To stop the flow of, to cease, to quench

Accentuate

To make more noticeable, to emphasize

Rhapsody

Promptness or eagerness

Devolve

To pass down, to delegate

Bungling

Incompetent, inept

Novelty

Innovation

Quandary

Dilemma

Layperson

Not a expert

Sycophant

One who gains favor by flattery

Recapitulate

To summarize

Pervasive

Spread or defuse through

Patent(adj)

Explicit and obvious

Arcane

Difficult to understand, esoteric

Construe

Explain the meaning of something

Cunning

Crafty, skillful

Solicitious

Concerned, to woo

Fastidious

Excessively particular about details

Baseness

Depravity

Indefatigable

Tireless