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65 Cards in this Set
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Arrogate |
To claim or take without right |
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Banal |
Hackneyed, trite, commonplace |
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Carping |
Tending to find fault |
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Eschew |
To avoid, shun, keep away from |
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Germane |
Relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting |
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Intransigent |
Refusing to compromise |
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Largesse |
Generosity in giving; lavish/bountiful contributions |
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Taciturn |
Habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little |
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Temporize |
To stall or act evasively in order to gain time, avoid a confrontation, or postpone a decision; to compromise |
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Tenable |
Capable of being held or defended |
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Accost |
To approach and speak first; to confront in a challenging or aggressive way |
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Celerity |
Swiftness, rapidity of motion or action |
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Halcyon |
A legendary bird-- calm, peaceful, happy, golden; prosperous/affluent |
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Histrionic |
Pertaining to actors and their techniques; theatrical, artificial; melodramatic |
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Incendiary |
Deliberately setting or causing fires; designed to start fires; tending to stir up strife or rebellion; (n.) one who deliberately sets fires |
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Maelstrom |
(N.). A whirlpool of great size and violence; a situation resembling a whirlpool in violence and destruction |
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Myopic |
Nearsighted ; lacking a broad, realistic view of a situation; lacking in foresight or discernment |
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Myopic |
Nearsighted ; lacking a broad, realistic view of a situation; lacking in foresight or discernment |
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Pejorative |
Tending to make worse; expressing disapproval or disparagement, derogatory,deprecatory, belittling |
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Propriety |
The state of being proper, appropriateness; standards of what is proper or socially acceptable |
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Propriety |
The state of being proper, appropriateness; standards of what is proper or socially acceptable |
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Savrilege |
Improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred |
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Cavort |
To romp/ prance around exuberantly; to make merry |
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Cavort |
To romp/ prance around exuberantly; to make merry |
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Evince |
To display clearly, to make evident/provoke |
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Cavort |
To romp/ prance around exuberantly; to make merry |
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Evince |
To display clearly, to make evident/provoke |
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Feckless |
Lacking in spirit and strength; ineffective; weak; irresponsible, unreliable |
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Nefarious |
Wicked, depraved, devoid of moral standards |
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Glean |
To gather but by bit; to gather small quantities of grain left in a feild by the reapers |
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Jocular |
Humorous, jesting, jolly, joking |
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Ludicrous |
Ridiculous; laughable; absurd |
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Nettle |
A prickly or stinging plant; (v.) to arouse displeasure, impatience, or anger; to vex or irritate severely |
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Pusillanimous |
Contemptibly cowardly or mean spirited |
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Recbant Strat |
In a reclining position, lying down, in the position of one sleeping or resting |
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Stratagem |
A scheme to outwit or deceive an opponent or to gain an end |
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Acuity |
Sharpness (particularly of the mind) |
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Delineate |
To portray, sketch or describe on accurate and vivid detail; to represent pictorally |
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Enervate |
To weaken or lessen the mental, moral, or physical vigor of; enfeeble hamstring |
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Piquant |
Stimulating to the taste or mind; spicy, pungent; appealingly provocative |
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Esoteric |
Intended for or understood by only a select few, private, secret |
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Fecund |
Fruitful in offspring or vegetation; intellectually productive |
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Garner |
To squire as the result of effort; to gather and store away, as for future use |
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Hallow |
To set apart as holy or sacred, sanctify, consecrate; to honor greatly, revere |
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Idiosyncrasy |
A peculiarity that serves to distinguish or identify |
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Mundane |
Earthly, worldly, relating to practice and material affairs; concerned with what is ordinary. |
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Ubiquitous |
Present or existing everywhere |
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Agnostic |
One who believes that nothing can be known about God; a skeptic; with out faith |
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Derelict |
Someone or something that is abandoned or neglected; left abandoned; neglectful of duty |
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Diatribe |
A bitter and prolonged verbal attack |
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Propinquity |
Nearness in place or time; kinship |
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Effigy |
A crude image of a despised person |
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Inane |
Silly, empty of a despised person |
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Indubitable |
Certain not to be doubted or denied |
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Motif |
A principle idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design |
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Neophytes |
A new convert, begging met, novice |
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Plenary |
Complete in all aspects of essentials; absolute, attended by all qualified members |
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Surveillance |
A watch kept over a person; careful, close, and disciplined observation |
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Verbiage |
Language that is too wordy or inflated in proportion to the sense or content, wordiness; a manner of expression |
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Verdant |
Green in tint or color; immature in experience or judgement |
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Substantive |
Real, having a solid basis; considerable in number or amount; meaningful and on topic |
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Viscous |
Having a gelatinous or gluey quality, lacking in easy movement or fluidity |
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Atrophy |
The wasting away of a body organ or tissue; any progressive decline or failure; (v.) to waste away |
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Flotsam |
floating debris; homeless, impoverished people |
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Frenetic |
Frenzied; highly agitated |