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58 Cards in this Set
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Mendicant
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a beggar
---> i cant--> i cant afford food--> therefore u beg for food--> a beggar. |
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Miser
(Miserly) |
stingy person
not generous; stingy --> misery--> extreme unhappiness--> if your in misery you would not be in the mood to be generous--> stingy. |
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Mogul
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a very wealthy or powerful businessperson
a bump on a ski slope -->?? |
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Monastic
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without luxuries
--> MON--> jamaican--> almost all of them live without luxuries. |
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Munificence
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generosity
--->?? |
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Network
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interconnected system
--> the computer network--> interconnected system. |
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Opulent
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wealthy; abundent
--> lent--> you give up something u really like--> if your wealthy you might give up money. |
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Ostentatious
(Ostentation) |
showy; extravagent
showing off; extravagence --> ?? |
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Pageant
(Pageantry) |
parade; spectacle
splendid spectacle; meaningless display --> beauty pageant--> a beauty spectacle/ competetion. |
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Painstaking
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very careful
--> if your scared of being in pain you would be very careful to avoid it. |
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Parsimony
(Parsimonious) |
stinginess; miserless
stingy; cheap --> mony--> if you have very little money you tend to be stingy or cheap. |
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Patron
(Patronize, Patronage) |
customer
supporter; sponsor to talk down to to buy from; to do business with approval and support --> business patron--> business supporter. |
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Pauper
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beggar; poor person
--> the prince and the pauper--> prince marries a poor person. |
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Pecuniary
(Impecunious) |
relating to money
having no money --> ?/ |
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Penurious
(Penury) |
very poor
stingy poverty --> penur--> penny--> if you only have a penny your very poor. |
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Personnel
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group of workers in an office
--> a manager at a work place has numerous personnel to make sure are working. |
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Philanthropy
(Philanthropic) |
charity; generosity
charitable; generous -->?? |
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Pomp
(Pompous, Pomposity) |
magnificent splendor; overdone display
acting self-important excessive self-importance; vanity --> women can be pompous bitches. |
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Impoverish
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to make poor
--> poverty--> being poor--> to impose poverty on someone--> to make poor. |
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Prestige
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respect based on rank, wealth, or success
--> A magician's prestige is his respect based on how good of a trickster he is. |
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Primacy
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first or most important position
--> prime--> first/ most important. |
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Prodigal
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wasteful; extravagant
-->gal--> girls can be very wasteful on buying shows when you give them your credit card. |
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Profiteer
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to make excessive money selling scarcse goods
--> profit--> to make money--> if you do that a lot you make excessive money. |
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Profilgate
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very wasteful; extravagant
--> ?? |
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Proprietor
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a business owner
--> proprietor of Mcdonald's is some man with the last name Mcdonald. |
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Purseless
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poor
--> if you dont have a purse you are poor. |
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Purveyor
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supplies
--> the purveyor or supermarkets are the companies that make the food. |
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Rapacity
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extreme greed
--> ?? |
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Remunerate
(Remunerative) |
to pay for services provided
profitable --> mun--> re mun--> re money--> repay/ pay for services provided. |
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Retail
(Retailer) |
sale of goods to individual customers
store that sells to individual customers --> ?? |
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Revenue
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entire income
--> venue--> a business--> you make all ur income from working--> entire income. |
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Sedulous
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hard-working
-->?/ |
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Self-Abnegating
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self-denying; living without luxuries or pleasures
--> gating--> denying yourself entry to luxury. |
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Self-Contained
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comlpete; independent
--> if your contained by yourself you are independent and can function on your own. |
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Self-Denial
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denying oneself pleasure
--> denial--> denying oneself pleasure. |
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Sinecure
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easy, high-paying job
-->? |
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Skinflint
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a cheap person
--> skin+ flint--> "chipping away at ones own skin"--> being cheap. |
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Solvent
(Invsolvent) |
a substance that dissolves something
having money having no money --> a solvent in chemistry dissolves into a solution |
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Sophisticate
(Sophisticated) |
a cultured, worldy person
world; not naive --> "sophisticated drink"---> ie a cultured drink |
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Spendthrift
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one who spends money wastefully
--> thrift--> to be careful with your money--> to spend thrift would be the opposite and therefore wasteful spending. |
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Squalid
(Squalor) |
dirty and unpleasant
poor and miserable a filthy or miserable condition -->?? |
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Squander
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to spend wastefully
--> to squander money on a store--> to spend wasteful amounts of money in a store. |
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Stipend
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base-level payment or salary
-->?? |
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Subsidize
(Subsidy) |
to assist financially
financial assistance --> government subsidized payments--> financial assistance |
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Sumptuous
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costly; luxurious
--> Sump--> a lot of--> if you buy a lot your costly. |
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Sybarite
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one who loves luxuries
--> ?? |
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Tawdry
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cheap; tacky; in a bad taste
--> tawdry--> towel dry--> if you dont dry your hands with new air blowing machines your cheap. |
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Transact
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to carry out; to conduct business
--> transaction--> a business plan--> to carry out said plan. |
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Travail
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painfully difficult work; suffering
--> ?? |
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Trove
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a collection of treasures
--> treasure trove--> a collection of treasures. |
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Trustee
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one who manages an institutions business affairs
--> board of trustees--> the board of people who manage the public business affairs. |
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Upstart
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a new, un-accepted member of the elite
--> start--> beginning--> new. |
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Urbane
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polite; elegantly mannered; sophisticated
--> urban--> if your from the city your expected to be sophisticated. |
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Vain
(Vanity) |
useless; worthless
conceited uselessness conceit -->all in vain--> was never worth it. |
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Vaunt
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to brag
--> ?? |
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Viable
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workable; able to survive
-> a viable option--> an option that works. |
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Vocation
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occupation; profession
--> ation--> occupation. |
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Wares
(Warehouse) |
goods for sale
storage place for goods --> ?? |