Personal Deck

Question 0

Lackadaisical

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idle, lazy; apathetic, indifferent

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Vex

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to irritate, annoy; confuse, puzzle

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Abet

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To assist and encourage (as an accomplice)

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Refectory

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Room where meals are served

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Writ

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Written document, usually in law

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Stilted

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Stiff, unnatural

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Dour

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Sullen and gloomy; stern and severe

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Pithy

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Profound, substantial; concise, succinct, to the point

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Mores

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Customs or manners

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Concede

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To yield, admit

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Proclivity

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tendency, inclination

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Missive

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note or letter

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Rife

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widespread, abounding

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Tenuous

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weak, insubstantial

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Stolid

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having shown little emotion

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Ensconce

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to settle comfortably into a place

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Clout

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power, influence

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Purport

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to profess, suppose, claim

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Cloister

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to confine, seclude

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Farcical

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absurd, ludicrous

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Axiom

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premise, postulate, self-evident truth

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latent

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present but hidden

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Entity

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something with its own existence or form

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Innate

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natural, existing in an individual from birth

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Furtive

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secret, stealthy

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Harrowing

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extremely distressing, terrifying

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Pulchritude

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beauty

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Adumbrate

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to sketch or outline in a shadowy way; to foreshadow

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Expedite

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to accelerate the process of, speed up

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Dotard

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a person showing signs of senility

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Inception

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begining

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Juxtaaposition

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the placement of two or more things side by side

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Peccadillo

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minor sin or offense

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Arbitrary

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depending solely on individual will, based on whim or impulse

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Resive

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impatient, uneasy, restless

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Impetuous

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quick to act without thinking

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Vestige

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trace, remnant

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Exhume

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To remove from aa grave

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Obdurately

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stubbornly, inflexibly

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Declivity

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Downward slope

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Glib

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offhand, casual

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Hackneyed

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worn out by overuse

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Cogent

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logically forceful, compelling, convincing

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Verbatim

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word for word

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Tenet

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belief doctrine

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Lampoon

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to attack with satire, mock harshly

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Fetter

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to bind, chain, confine

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Hinterland

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wilderness

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Ethos

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beliefs or character of a group

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Pugnacious

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quarrelsome, eager and ready to fight

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Quixotic

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overly idealistic, impractical

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Palaver

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idle talk

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Benighted

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unenlightened

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Invidious

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tending to cause disconsent

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Agrarian

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relating to farming or rural matters

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Ephemeral

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momentary, transient, fleeting

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Husband

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to farm

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Squalid

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filthy, rundown

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Spartan

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simple, bare

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Belie

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to misrepresent, give a false impression of

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Pejorative

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having bad connotations, disparaging, belittling

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Banal

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trite, overly common

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Nadir

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lowest point

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Efficacious

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effective, efficient

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Exhort

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to urge or incite by strong appeals

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Equanimity

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calmness, composure

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Altercation

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noisy dispute

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Philanderer

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pursuer of casual love affairs

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Mitigate

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to soften, make milder

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Commute

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to change a penalty to a less severe one

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Circumlocution

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roundabout, lengthy way of saying something

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Effluvia

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outpouring of gases or vapors

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Encumber

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to hinder, burden, restrict motion

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Obseqiuous

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overly submissive and obedient, fawning over

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Daunt

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to discourage, intimidate

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Sully

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to stain, tarnish, defile

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Sordid

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filthy; contemptible and corrupt

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Curator

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overseer of an exhibition, especially in an art museum

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Staid

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self-restrained to the point of dullness

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Inimical

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hostile, unfriendly

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Pedant

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a formalist in teaching, one who stresses the trivial in learning

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Pernicious

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highly destructive

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Ignoble

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dishonorable, not noble in character

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Foreboding

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dark sense of evil to come

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Baleful

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sinister, with evil intentions

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Paltry

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pitifully small or worthless

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Lumber

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to move slowly and awkwardly

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Quandary

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dilemma, difficulty

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Quash

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to put down, extinguish completely

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Bellicose

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warlike, aggressive

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Tome

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book, usually large and academic

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Exonerate

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to clear of blame, absolve

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Eddy

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air or wind current

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Recalcitrant

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resisting authority or control