Untitled Deck

Question 1

Apropos

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appropriate, coming at the right time

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Ardent

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enthusiastic or passionate

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Avarice

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excessive desire for wealth; covetousness

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Dichotomy

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a division or contrast between two things that are or are represented as being opposed or entirely different

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Diffident

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modest or shy because of a lack of self-confidence

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Dirge

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a lament for the dead, especially one forming part of a funeral rite

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Halcyon

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peaceful; carefree; serene

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Opprobrious

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extremely critical; disgraceful; expressing scorn or criticism

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Perfunctory

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in a spiritless, mechanical, careless, and routine manner

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Perspicacious

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having a ready insight into and understanding of things

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Arrogate

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take presumptuously or without the right to do so

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Askance

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with suspicion or disapproval

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Dialectical

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relating to the rules and methods of reasoning; approaching truth in the middle of opposing extremes

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Dilatory

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inclined to waste time and be habitually late; prone to tardiness

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Disparage

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to describe (someone or something) as unimportant, weak, bad, etc.

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Hegemony

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domination; authority; influence by one country over others socially, culturally, economically, etc

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Ostensible

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professed or pretended; outwardly appearing in a certain way

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Ostentatious

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marked by showy and often tasteless displays of wealth

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Phlegmatic

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lethargic and thus not easily aroused into action; not easily roused to excitement

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Polemic

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a controversial argument often published as an essay or pamphlet attacking a specific opinion or doctrine

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Auspices

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protection, support; sponsorship

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Banal

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lacking freshness and originality

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Discursive

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rambling from one topic to another, usually aimlessly

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Ebullient

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feeling or expressing great happiness or triumph

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Effrontery

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a very confident attitude or way of behaving that is shocking or rude

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Hermetic

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impervious to external influence

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Panache

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a flamboyant or grand way of acting

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Pernicious

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very harmful or destructive, deadly

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Prattle

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talk in an idle, simple-minded, meaningless, or foolish way

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Prescient

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having foreknowledge or foresight; seeing the future

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Chicanery

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trickery, deception by knowingly false arguments

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Ineradicable

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incapable of being removed or destroyed

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Egress

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an exit or the action of exiting

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Elegy

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a poem of sorrow, especially for a deceased person

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Imbue

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to permeate or tinge

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Pejorative

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disparaging, derogatory, belittling; a name or word that is disparaging

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Predilection

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preference, tendency, or favorability towards

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Propitiate

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attempt to reconcile with, satisfy, or reduce the animosity of (a person who is angry, offended, etc)

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Querulous

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given to complaining, grumbling

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Sagacious

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having or showing an ability to understand difficult ideas and situations to make good decisions; keen and farsighted penetration and judgment

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Artless

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free of deceit or craftiness, genuine, lacking skill or knowledge; crude

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Affable

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friendly and easy to talk to; being pleasant and at ease in talking to others

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Distend

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to swell, expand, stretch, bloat

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Engender

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produce, give rise to, cause to exist

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Euphemism

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substitution of a mild, inoffensive, or indirect expression for one that is considered offensive or too direct

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Inculcate

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teach persistently, implant (an idea) in a person

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Prevaricate

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stray from the truth, mislead, lie

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Propitious

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giving good signs for the future, likely to work out; kind or forgiving

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Quixotic

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extremely impractical but very romantic, chivalrous, or idealistic

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Recalcitrant

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not obedient, resisting authority, hard to manage

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Assiduous

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hardworking; busy; quite diligent

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Diurnal

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occurring every day; happening in the daytime (rather than at night)

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Fecund

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capable of abundantly producing offspring, vegetation, or creative or intellectual work

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Florid

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excessively ornamental, as in a very flowery style of writing

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Indolent

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lazy, slothful

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Ineluctable

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incapable of being resisted or avoided

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Puerile

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juvenile, immature

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Recondite

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not easily understood, hidden, dealing with an obscure topic

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Refractory

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stubbornly disobedient, hard to manage

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Sardonic

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scornfully or ironically mocking, cynically derisive

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Aseptic

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free from germs; lacking vitality, warmth, or emotion

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Doctrinaire

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person who applies doctrine in an impractical or rigid and close-minded way (n); merely theoretical, impractical, or fanatical about others accepting one's ideas (adj)

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Edify

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uplift, enlighten, instruct or improve in a spiritual or moral way

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Fortuitous

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happening by chance

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Furtive

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done secretly, stealthy, shy, shifty

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Invidious

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hateful, offensive, injurious

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Quiescent

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quiet, still

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Sedition

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inciting rebellion against a government, especially speech or writing that does this

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Squalid

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disgusting, filthy, foul, extremely neglected

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Vitriolic

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full of bitterness; caustic

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Onus

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burden

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Pacis

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peace

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Par

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equal

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Pathos

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feeling

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Plac

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calm

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Poten

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powerful

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Pug

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fist

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Quiescere

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quiet

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Scrib

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write

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Semin

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seed

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Spec / Spic

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see or observe

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Ten

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hold

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Turb

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troubling

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Vivere

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live