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36 Cards in this Set
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Alacrity |
Eager and enthusiastic willingness |
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Audacious audacity |
Daring and fearless ; recklessly bold |
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Austere adjective |
Without adornment, bear, severely simple |
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Axiomatic adjective |
Taken as given, possessing self-evident truth |
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Capricious adjective |
Inclined to change one's mind impulsively, erratic, unpredictable. |
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Chicanery |
Trickery or subterfuge |
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Disabuse verb |
To set right, to undeceive |
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Effrontery , noun |
Extreme boldness, presumptuousness |
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Enervate, verb |
To weaken, to reduce in vitality |
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Ennui |
Dissatisfaction and restlessness resulting from boredom or apathy |
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Equivocate, verb |
Do use ambiguous language with the deceptive intent |
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Erudite |
Very learned or scholarly |
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Exculpate, verb |
Exonerate, to clear of blame |
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Exigent, adjective |
Urgent, pressing, requiring immediate action or attention |
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Extemporaneous, adjective |
Improvised, done without preparation |
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Fulminate, verb |
To loudly attack or denounce |
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Ingenuous, adjective |
Artless, Frank and candid, lacking in sophistication |
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Inured |
Accustomed to accepting something undesirable |
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Irascible |
Easily angered, prone to temperamental outbursts |
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Nascent |
Coming into being, in early developmental stages |
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Neologism |
A new word, expression, or usage the creation or use of new words or senses |
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Obviate, verb |
To anticipate and make unnecessary |
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Onerous, adjective |
Troubling or burdensome |
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Paean, noun |
A song or hymn of praise and thanksgiving |
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Perennial |
Recurrent through many years happening repeatedly |
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Perfidy |
Intentional breach of Faith, treachery |
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Perspicacious, adjective |
Acutely perspective, having a keen discernment |
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Precipitate, adjective |
Acting with excessive haste or impulse |
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Predilection |
A disposition in favor of something, preference |
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Prevaricate |
To deliberately avoid the truth to mislead |
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Prescience |
For knowledge of events, knowing of events prior to their recurring |
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Sordid |
Characterized by filth grime or squalor, foul |
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Stupefy |
To stun, baffle, or amaze |
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Tortuous |
Winding or twisting or excessively complicated |
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Truculent |
Fierce and cruel, eager to fight |
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Virulent |
Extremely harmful or poisonous, bitterly hostile or antagonistic |
