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20 Cards in this Set
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Abortive |
failing to produce the intended result. |
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Bruit |
spread (a report or rumor) widely. |
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Contumelious |
scornful and insulting; insolent. |
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Dictum |
a short statement that expresses a general truth or principle. |
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Ensconce |
establish or settle (someone) in a comfortable, safe, or secret place. |
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Iconoclastic |
characterized by attack on cherished beliefs or institutions. |
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In media res |
In the middle |
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Internecine |
destructive to both sides in a conflict. |
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Maladroit |
ineffective or bungling; clumsy. |
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Maudlin |
self-pityingly or tearfully sentimental, often through drunkennes |
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Modulate |
exert a modifying or controlling influence on. |
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Portentous |
Warning , threatening |
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Prescience |
The fact of knowing something before it takes place; foreknowledge. |
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Quid pro quo |
Exchange of goods and services |
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Salubrious |
Healthy , health-giving |
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Saturnalian |
Time of merrymaking, unrestrianed |
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Touchstone |
a piece of fine-grained dark schist or jasper formerly used for testing alloys of gold by observing the color of the mark that they made on it. |
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Traumatic |
emotionally disturbing or distressing. |
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Vitiate |
spoil or impair the quality or efficiency of. |
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Waggish |
humorous in a playful, mischievous, or facetious manner. |
