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62 Cards in this Set
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arable
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fit for cultivation
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enervate
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weaken
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Mendacious
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equoivocal, misleading, untruthful
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Ruminate
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ponder
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Penury
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penniless, destitute, indigent
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prosaic
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mundane, pedestrian, banal
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Profligate
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extravagant, wasteful, reckless
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stoic
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one who is emotionally unresponsive
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Fulsome
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effusive, excessive, generous
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hackneyed
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over familiar through overuse (esp. pertaining to adages); trite (esp
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salacious
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lustful, bawdy, lascivious
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Languid
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lethargic, lazy, relaxed, unrushed
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Flippant
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Marked by disrespectful levity or casualness; pert.
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pert
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High-spirited; vivacious.
Impudently bold; saucy. |
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deference
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respecting or curteously yielding to the wishes, opinions, or judgements of another
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Ambivalent
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unsure, undecided, of two minds
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Impecunious
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impoverished, indigent, poor
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Furtive
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secretive, stealthy, sly
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Voracious
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insatiable, ravenous, gluttonous
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Munificent
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generous, bountiful, liberal
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Hedonist
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Pursuit of or devotion to pleasure, especially to the pleasures of the senses
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Miser
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One who lives very meagerly in order to hoard money.
A greedy or avaricious person. |
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av·a·ri·cious
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Immoderately desirous of wealth or gain; greedy.
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allay
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alleviat, assuage
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EPHEMERAL
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short-lived, passing, fleeting, temporary
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volatile
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unconstant, ephemeral
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evanescent
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vanishing or likely to vanish quickly, of short duration
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PERENNIAL
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constant, lasting, returning (for flowers 2x per year)
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Diurnal
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Relating to or occurring in a 24-hour period; daily.
Occurring or active during the daytime rather than at night: diurnal animals. |
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SOPHISTICATE
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n: A sophisticated person.
v: To cause to become less natural, especially to make less naive and more worldly. To make impure; adulterate. To make more complex or inclusive; refine. |
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Tyro
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novice, learner, neophyte, trainee
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Pummel
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to beat with fists
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Prosody
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The study of the metrical structure of verse.
A particular system of versification. |
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Covert
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clandestine, secret
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Ingenuous
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frank, honest, candid, innocent, naive, guileless
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Wile
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trick, ploy, subterfuge, con, scam, hoax, deception
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paltry
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Lacking in importance or worth. See Synonyms at trivial.
Wretched or contemptible. |
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Conscript
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n.
One compulsorily enrolled for service, especially in the armed forces; a draftee. adj. Enrolled compulsorily; drafted. tr.v. con·script·ed, con·script·ing, con·scripts (kn-skrpt) To enroll compulsorily into service; draft. |
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Trite
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hackneyed
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Sybarite
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A person devoted to pleasure and luxury; a voluptuary.
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Philanderer
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To carry on a sexual affair, especially an extramarital affair, with a woman one cannot or does not intend to marry. Used of a man.
To engage in many love affairs, especially with a frivolous or casual attitude. Used of a man. |
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Ruse
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trick, subterfuge
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Hamlet
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village, settlement, rural community, sm. town
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Axiomatic
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self-evident, obvious, clear
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Inviolate
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Not violated or profaned; intact
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Conciliate
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to appease, to reconile, to attempt to gain friendship of.
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Cathartic
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therapeutic, healing, a bowl stimulant
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HONE
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sharpen, whet, perfect
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Burnish
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polish, shine, wax
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Adjudge
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judge, deem, consider
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Abrogate
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To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
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ESCHEW
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to avoid, to shun, to want/have nothing to do with
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Ostracize
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to exclude from a group
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Ostentatious
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pretentious, showy
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Concatenate
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To connect or link in a series or chain
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RACONTEUR
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a narrator or conversationalist
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Ruffian
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a tough or rowdy person, or a ganster or thug
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Spendthrift
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One who spends money recklessly or wastefully.
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recluse
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hermit, loner, outsider,
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tawdry
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cheap, gaudy, flashy, showy, flamboyant
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Intrinsical
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Intimate; closely familiar
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bibulous
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1. Of, pertaining to, marked by, or given to the consumption of alcoholic drink.
2. Readily absorbing fluids or moisture. |