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93 Cards in this Set
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ape
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v: to attempt an overly exact imitation and ending up with negative or laughable results
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dun
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v: to insist on the payment of a debt
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fop
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n: a man who, in mainstream opinion, is too concerned with his looks and his clothes
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gad
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v: to move about, travel, usually in a kind of aimless way; usually mildly critical
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hex
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n, v: an evil spell, or to put an evil spell on someone
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ken
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n: refers to your understanding, the limits of your knowledge
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pox
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n: bad luck; used to be used as a "polite" term for a sexually transmitted disease
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sow
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v, n: to plant a seed, literally or figuratively, or a female pig
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vex
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to annoy or perplex; usually used for small matters
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vie
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to compete, contend
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amalgamation
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n: to mix or combine into a unified whole; verb form is "to amalgamate"
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admixture
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n: mixture
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eclectic
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adj: made up from a variety of sources; noun form is "eclecticism"
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catholic
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adj: comprehensive or of broad scope
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motley
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adj: composed of a variety of sources
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corroborate
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v: to bring in new evidence to strengthen or support an idea or argument; noun form is "corroboration"
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asunder
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adv: apart or into separate pieces; it is only used to describe how something is done
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diaspora
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n: any dispersion of a people from their original homeland or any dispersion of a language or culture
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cleave
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v: to split or to cut or penetrate, noun form is "cleft" and the past tense is "clove". Also, to stick to or to be faithful to with the past tense being "cleaved".
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disseminate
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v: to scatter widely or to disperse
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aphrodisiac
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n,adj: refers to food or drugs that allegedly make men and women feel more amorous
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chthonic
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adj: referring to the underworld
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autochthonous
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adj: on native ground, originating where found
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hector
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v: to bully or to try to force someone to do something
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hermetic
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adj: describing something that is air tight or referring to a pseudo-science
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junoesque
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adj: describes a woman who is unusually tall and stately and so beautiful as to seem divine
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mecurial
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adj: describes someone whose moods change very rapidly
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mnemonic
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adj,n: refers to memory or relating to memory, noun form refers to memory in general
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muse
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v: to lose yourself in your thoughts, perhaps awaiting inspiration
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bemuse
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v: to passively gotten to a state of unfocused thinking
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odyssey
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n: a long trip, either figurative or literal
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saturnine
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adj: gloomy or even bitterly sarcastic and mocking
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magnanimous
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adj: extremely generous and forgiving and courageously noble in mind and heart; noun form is magnanimity
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parsimonious
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adj: excessively stingy; noun form is parsimony
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prodigal
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adj: extremely wasteful or extravagant or lavishly abundant; noun form is prodigality
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penurious
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adj: stingy, unwilling to spend money and, poverty-stricken or destitute; noun form is penury
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eleemosynary
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adj: contributing to charity and dependent upon charity
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frugal
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adj: extremely economical, synonym for thrifty
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munificent
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adj: very generous in giving; noun form is munificence
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avaricious
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adj: greedy or desirous of gain; noun form is avarice
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mean
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adj: miserly and stingy or low in value
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indulgent
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adj: lenient or willing to gratify
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equine
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adj: anything bearing the characteristics of horses, asses, or zebras
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bovine
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adj: relating to the characteristics of cows, oxen, or buffaloes
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lupine
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adj: ravenous or rapacious (greedily taking by force), having the characteristics of a wolf
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ursine
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adj: bear-like, usually a physical description
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porcine
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adj: resembling a swine or a pig, either physically or behaviorally
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simian
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adj: resembling an ape or a monkey
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serpentine
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adj: snake-like in behavior (sly and tempting) or physically resembling a snake
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pachyderm
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n: refers to a group of large, thick-skinned, hoofed animals that includes the elephant, the rhinoceros, and the hippopotamus
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avian
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adj: having the characteristics of birds
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herpetology
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n: the study of reptiles and amphibians
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laconic
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adj: sometimes used to describe a writing style, more often used for those who say little
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taciturn
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adj: saying little, sometimes implying a grudging conversational style
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lapidary
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adj: characterizes precision in wording, more often applies to writing than to speaking
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pithy
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adj: compliment for a style of word use that is both brief and forceful
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succinct
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adj: concise speaking or writing
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terse
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adj: brief, to the point
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garrulous
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adj: talking a great deal, or too much
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prattling
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adj: to chatter meaninglessly
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glib
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adj: speaking without thought, or being insincere
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prolix
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adj: a wordiness of manner, a pouring forth of too many words or phrases; most often referring to writing
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maundering
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adj: when you just keep going when you could have won praise for being more concise
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indigenous
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adj: people or things that are native to a region
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interloper
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n: someone, or something, who intrudes where they aren't wanted
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extraneous
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adj: coming from the outside, irrelevant or unimportant
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inherent
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adj: stuck into the nature of the thing, integral to its being
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germane
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adj: relevant or suitable or closely connected
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pariah
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n: a social outcast, someone not accepted in his or her society
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endemic
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adj: native or common to or peculiar to a specific region or abstract area
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intrinsic
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adj: inward, innate
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ostracize
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v: expelling a person from a community either literally or figuratively
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tangential
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adj: something slightly touching or barely connected
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ominous
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adj: a foreshadowing of the future, always describes the threatening, the menacing
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portentous
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adj: something carrying a sign, a portent, of threats of the future; also describing the pretentiously weighty, the pompous
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inauspicious
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adj: predicts or suggests something negative
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imminent
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adj: something about to occur
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impending
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adj: refers to the near arrival of something, threatening or not
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minatory
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adj: threatening
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presage
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v: refers to a forewarning, an ominous feeling, a prediction
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bode, forebode
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v: referring to an omen; intensifies that presentiment
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propitiate
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v: actions to appease or calm forces that might oppose a favorable outcome
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harbinger
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n: a forerunner, an early warning
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squander
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v: wasting
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dissipation
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n: a literal scattering or dispersing and a specialized sense of scattering one's energy through immoderate pursuit of trivial pleasures
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disenfranchise
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v,n: to lose the right to vote
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forfeiture
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n: expresses the idea of a penalty, a giving up of something in one's possession
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denude
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v: to make bare, primarily used of trees that lose their leaves
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privation
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n: deprived of basic necessities or comforts
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divest
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v: getting rid of; noun form is divestiture
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renounce
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v: to give something up
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elegiac
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adj: a feeling of sadness at many types of losses
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bereave
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v: to leave desolate, usually by death
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