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33 Cards in this Set
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tenuous
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having little substance or strength; flimsy, weak
A: healthy/strong |
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surfeit
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excess; overindulgence
A: necessity |
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superfluous
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exceeding what what is suficient or necessary
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spurious
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lacking authenticity or valdity; false counterfeit
a: genuine |
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specious
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seeming true; misleadingly attractive
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reverent
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marked by, feeling, or expressing a feeling of profound awe/respect, passionate, pious
A: agnostic/undevout |
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repudiate
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to refuse to have anything to do with; disown/reject
A: acknowledge/confirm |
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recalcitrant
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difficult to manage; disobedient
A: amenable/docile/complieant |
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proliferate
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increase swiftly, burgeon
A;decrease/dwindle |
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platitude
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a superficial remark esp. one offered as meaningful
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pedagogy
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education/instruction
A: ignorance, illiteracy |
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pithy
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precise/brief
A: long-winded,verbose |
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pith
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essential part/core
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pine
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to yearn intensely; to languish
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penury
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poverty/destitution/misfortune
A: peace |
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occlude
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to obstruct or block
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misanthrope
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one who hates all other people; hater/cynic
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malevolent
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having or showing often vicious ill will, spite, or hatred
A: benevolent |
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loquacious
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extremely talkative
A: reticent |
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reticent
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secretive, uncommunicative
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insipid
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dull, lacking spirit
a: interesting |
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infelicitous
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unfortunate; inappropriate
A: graceful/sophisticated |
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inchoate
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in an initial stage; not fully developed
A: developed |
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impunity
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freedom from punishment
A: liability, responsibility |
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iconoclast
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one who attacks or undermines traditional conventions or institutions
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hegemony
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the consistent dominance of one state or ideology over others (mormans)
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hedonism
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devotion to pleasurable pursuits, sunsuality
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grandiloquence
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pompous speech or expression
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evanescent
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tending to disappear like vapor; vanishing
A; tangible |
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endemic
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characteristic of or often found in a particular locality, region, or people
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dissemble
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to diguise or conceal; to mislead
A; expose, demonstrate |
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aver
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to state as a fact; to confirm or support
a: nullify |
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acumen
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quick, keen, or accurate knowledge or insight
a: ignorance |
