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30 Cards in this Set
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Wistful |
Full of yearning or desire tinged with melancholy; musingly sad |
Pensive |
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Smite |
To strike sharply or heavily; to kill or severely injure; to affect as if by striking |
Bludgeon,clobber, bash,pound,smack,slug |
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Wane |
To decrease in size, extent, or degree; to become less bright or powerful |
Abate, decline,diminish, ebb, recede, subside |
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Tangible |
Capable of being perceived especially by the sense of touch; substantially real |
Palpable, material, touchable |
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Terminate |
To come to an end in time; to discontinue; to serve as an ending, limit, or boundary of |
Complete, conclude, finish |
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Candid |
Frank, sincere; impartial; opposed |
Forthright; unbiased |
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Drudgery |
Work that is hard and tiresome |
Toil, labor, grind |
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Escalate |
To elevate; to increase in intensity |
Raise;ascend;mount |
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Grievous |
Causing sorrow or pain; serious |
Painful, heart ending |
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Horde |
A vast number; a throng |
Crowd, multitude,swarm |
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Incredulous |
Disbelieving; skeptical |
Mistrustful;doubting |
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Prognosis |
A forecast of the probable course and outcome of a disease |
Projection |
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Repugnant |
Offensive, disagreeable, distasteful |
Hateful, revolting, repulsive |
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Impel |
To force, drive forward |
Urge, propel, incite |
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Rasping |
With a harsh, grating sound |
Scraping, abrasive, gravely |
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Tolerate |
To put up with; to allow to be or to be done without prohibition, hindrance, or contradiction |
Endure, permit, allow |
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Trivial |
A little worth or importance; common place or ordinary |
Incidental, inconsequential, insignificant, minor, slight, unimportant |
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Turmoil |
State or condition of extreme confusion, agitation, or commotion |
Restlessness, unease, unrest, disquiet |
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Upheaval |
Extreme agitation; or disorder radical change |
Tumult, uproar |
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Spurn |
To Reject with the disdain or contempt; to tread sharply or heavily upon |
Scorn, trample, reprobate, disapprove |
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Aspire |
To have ambitious hopes or plans, strive toward a higher goal, desire earnestly; to ascend |
Yearn, aim for, soar |
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Bleak |
Bare, dreary, dismal |
grim, gloomy, desolate, barren |
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Despicable |
Worthy of scorn; contemptible |
Low, cheap, sordid, detestable |
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Erroneous |
Incorrect, containing mistakes |
Fallacious; wrong |
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Exploit |
To make use of; develop; to make in proper use of for personal profit |
Turn to advantage;misuse |
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Invincible |
Not able to be defeated, unbeatable |
Unconquerable |
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Languid |
Drooping; without energy, sluggish |
Listless, lethargic |
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Skeptical |
Inclined to doubt; slow to except something as true |
Suspicious, incredulous |
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Obtrusive |
Forward; undesirably prominent; thrust out |
Brash, conspicuous, protruding |
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Render |
To sauce to become; perform; to deliver officially; to process, extract |
Present, furnace, submit, make, effect |