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(83 cards)
Inert
Unable to move
Moving or acting very slowly
Sluggish
Circumvent
To avoid being stopped by
To get around in a clever and sometimes dishonest way
Heartfelt
deeply felt, very sincere
Voluble
Easily rolling or turning
Glib, fluent
Acquiescent
Tending to accept or allow what other people want or demand
Induce
To move by persuasion or influence
To cause the formation of
Somnolent
Drowsy, sleepy
Befuddle
To confuse
Hidebound
Not willing to accept new or different ideas
Embolden
To make someone more confirent
Derision
The use of ridicule or scorn to show contempt
Lambaste
To attack verbally
To assault violently
Stale
Not clean, clear or pure
Boring or unoriginal; banal; 陳腐
Gradient
The rate of regular or graded upward or downward
Change in the value of a quantity
Entail
To restrict by limiting
To assign, transmit for an indefinitely long time
To impose, involve or imply as a necessary result
Antecedent
Something that came before something else
Shackle
To prevent free action
Admonish
To speak to in a way that expresses disapproval or criticism
To tell to do something
To give friendly advice or encouragement to
Stifle
To stop from doing or expressing something
To not allow to do or express
To make difficult or impossible
sparse
Thinly covering an area, less than necessary or normal
Present only in small amounts
Bar
To prevent
Disseminate
To spread
To cause to go to many people
Recant
To renounce, to withdraw formally and publicly
Repudiate
To refuse to accept
To say or show that is not true