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146 Cards in this Set
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Lucubration |
A learned or pedantic piece of writing |
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Indigent |
Poor. Needy |
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Portentous |
Done in a pompous manner |
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Refractory |
Stubborn. Unmanageable |
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Execrable |
Extremely bad or unpleasant |
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Euphuism |
An artificial or highly elaborate way of speaking |
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Divagate |
Stray or digress |
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Assignation |
A secret romantic tryst |
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Staid |
Sedate. Respectable. Unadventerous. Serious. |
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Unflagging |
Tireless. Persistent. |
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Ecumenical |
Worldwide or general in extent. Referring to a whole body of churches. |
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Bluster |
Talk in a loud offensive indignant way. Bragging |
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Aggrandize |
Increase the power status and wealth of |
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Pretension |
Pretension is inflation. Trying to make something about someone seem grander than it is. It's also a claim. Like claim to the throne |
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Salutary Vs Salutation |
Salutary is promoting good effects. Beneficial. Nothing to do with Salutation |
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Frisson |
Sudden strong feeling of excitement |
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Doughty |
Brave and Persistent |
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Pleonasm |
Use of more words than necessary. Prolix. Verbose. |
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Countermand |
Revoke or Cancel |
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Undulating |
Moving with a smooth wave like motion |
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Armistice |
Agreement made by opposing sides in the war |
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Proselyte |
Person converted from one religion to another |
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Crotchet |
A perverse or unfounded belief or notion |
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Sidle |
Walk in an unobstrusive or timid manner |
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Effulgent |
Shining. Bright. Radiant |
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Haggard |
Worn out |
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Epaulet |
Ornamental shoulder piece |
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Animadversion |
Criticism or censure |
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Condign |
Punishment appropriate to the crime. Condign was rare when the criminal was rich |
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Flagitious |
Criminal. Villainous |
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Simulacra |
An image or representation of someone or something |
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Costive |
Reluctant. Unforthcoming |
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Bathetic |
Producing an unintentional effect or anticlimax |
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Risible |
Provoking Laughter |
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Malaise |
Sick or ill |
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Emend |
Make corrections or revisions to a text |
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Peremptory |
Insisting on immediate attention or obedience |
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Protract |
Prolong |
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Prolepsis |
The anticipation and answering of possible objections |
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Saturnine |
Sad or gloomy. Opposite of sanguine |
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Elysian |
Delightful. Like say the garden of Eden |
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Plenary |
Absolute. Without limits |
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Adduce |
Cite as evidence |
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Conferment |
The act of conferring a title. I don't know how the fcuk I got this one wrong |
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colloquium |
An academic conference or seminar |
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continence |
Exercising self restraint. Specially sexually |
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climacteric |
1 a critical period or event: the first major climacteric in twentieth-century poetry. |
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grouse |
complain about something trivial; grumble: |
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Foist |
Impose something on |
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Callow |
Inexperienced or immature |
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Wane |
Reduce. CANNOT BE USED IMPERSONALLY. I. E THE MOON WANES ON IT'S OWN. YOU CAN'T WANE SOMETHING LIKE WANING AGGRESSION |
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Feckless |
Lacking initiative or strength |
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ratiocinate |
form judgements by using login. To use rationale |
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Interpose |
Insert between two things. As opposed to juxtapose |
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Debonair |
Confident. Stylish. Charming |
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Bloviate |
Talk at length in a pompous way |
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amatory |
relating to or induced by sexual love or desire: his amatory exploits. |
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aleatory |
depending on the throw of a dice or random chance |
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Pollard |
Cut off the top branches of a tree |
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payola |
bribe |
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lucre |
money, especially when regarded as sordid or distasteful or gained in a dishonourable way: officials getting their hands grubby with filthy lucre. |
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Limn |
depict or describe in painting or words |
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caliginous |
dark grim misty |
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avuncular |
Kind and friendly towards a younger more inexperienced person |
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Ineluctable |
Unable to be avoided. Inexorable |
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bilk |
to cheat or defraud |
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Byzantine |
Excessively complicated. Like the Byzantine empire |
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Brook |
Tolerate allow. The Dictator will tolerate no dissent |
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Go down to the tubes.
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Become much worse. Fail |
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Syncretism |
Amalgamation of many religions |
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Arboreal |
Living in or related to trees. |
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Lackadaisical |
Lacking enthusiasm and energy |
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Exculpate |
Declare someone free from wrong doing |
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Capricious |
Given to sudden changes in mood |
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Laconic. |
Using few words. Taciturn |
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Saccharine |
Sweet. From the word saccharin which is a sweetener |
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Pertinacious |
Holding firmly to an opinion |
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Hypochondriac |
Someone who's excessively worried |
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Ephemeral |
Lasting a short time. |
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Felicitous |
Working out well |
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Vaunted |
Highly or widely praised and boasted about |
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Renegade |
Outlaw or rebel |
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Curio |
A strange and interesting object that invokes curiosity She was relegated to Curio status |
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Plebiscite |
A referendem. Specially one that involves a change in sovriegnity |
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Vituperative |
Marked by harsh spoken or written abuse |
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Reprobate |
Rejected. Cast of as worthless |
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Probity |
Integrity |
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Onerous |
Imposing a physical or mental load |
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Disabuse |
To free someone of a misconception or falsehood. Vindicate. Exculpate |
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Prehensile |
Able to take hold of and grab objects |
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Extirpate |
Pull up by the roots. Eradicate |
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Detritus |
Organic waste material |
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Intransigent |
Unwilling to compromise |
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Rectitude |
Straightness or the quality of having a constant direction |
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Contravene |
To act contrary to an order |
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Stygian |
Dark gloomy. Infernal or hellish |
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Rhapsodic |
Highly emotional |
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Abet |
To urge. To stimulate. |
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Effusive |
Gushy. Unrestrained. Extravagant. Overflowing. |
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Jackleg |
Amateur. Untrained. |
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Prurient |
Uneasy with desire. Lustful |
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Febrility |
Feverish. Having excess energy |
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Tremulous |
Trembling. Quivering. Shaking. |
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Lapidary |
A person's who cuts and polishes gems. |
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Epistemology |
The branch of philosophy dealing with the study of knowledge. What is knowledge? |
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Couquettish |
Flirtacious |
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Preening |
Grooming. Or posturing. |
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Disaffected |
Alienated. Estranged. |
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Latitude |
Scope for freedom or action of thought. Journalists need more latitude. |
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Ardor |
Intense and passionate feeling |
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Probity |
The quality of having strong moral principles |
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Cavil |
Make petty or unnecessary objections |
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Consonance |
Agreement or compatibility between thoughts and actions |
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Chary |
Cautiously suspicious or reluctant |
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Becalm |
Of a ship unable to move through lack of wind. Used in a negative context |
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Manacled |
Confined. With the links of a chain. Prisoners are Manacled. |
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Antinomies or Antinomy |
A contradiction between two beliefs that are in themselves reasonable. A paradox. |
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Antinomian |
Person who believes Christians are released from grace by observing moral law |
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Evanescent |
Soon passing out of sight. Memory or existence |
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Discomfiting |
Make someone feel uneasy or embarrassed |
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Rapturous |
Characterized by great pleasure or enthusiasm |
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Filial |
Relating to son or daughter. Filial affection |
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Cogitation |
The act of thinking deeply. |
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Astringent |
Sharp or severe in manner and style. |
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Portents |
Signs or warnings or a calamitous event about to occur |
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Abate |
Reduce or remove. Reduce something un pleasant. |
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Indomitable |
Impossible to subdue or defeat. |
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Liberality |
The quality of speeding freely |
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Libretto |
Text of an opera or vocal work |
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Sumptuous |
Splendid and expensive looking |
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Cavalcade |
A procession of people riding on horseback. On cavalry |
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Presage |
A sign or warning of an imminent event. |
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Doge |
Chief magistrate of Venice or Greece |
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Compunction |
Feeling of guilt that prevents someone from doing something bad |
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Deft |
Skillful |
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Brigand |
a member of a gang that ambushes and robs people in the forest |
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Consign |
Deliver something to a persons keeping. He consigned three paintings to him |
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Tetchy |
irritale and bad tempered |
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Azure |
bright blue |
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Avant Garde |
New and experimental. Not gothic |
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Vestment |
Robes worn by clergy |
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Dudgeon |
A feeling of offence or deep resentment |
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Indolence |
Laziness |
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Ululate |
how or wail as an expression of strong emotion |
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Regnant |
Reigning |
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Fugacious |
tending to dissappear |