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52 Cards in this Set
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candid |
honest, straightforward |
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conjecture |
inference, guesswork |
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didactic |
instructive (too much) |
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effusive |
showing excessive emotion |
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euphemism |
a mild, inderict, or vague term substituting for a harsh, blunt, or offensive term |
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extrapolate |
to infer or estimate by extending or projecting known information |
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incoherent |
lacking cohesion or connection |
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insinuate |
to suggest or hint at in an indirect unpleasant way |
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loquacious |
very talktative |
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lucid |
clear, easily understood |
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rhetoric |
the art of using language effectively and persuasively |
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acumen |
quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgement or insight |
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adroit |
dexterous |
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ascertain |
to find out through investigation or experimentation |
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astute |
clever |
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circumspect |
careful, discreet |
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disseminate |
to scatter widely, as inseed |
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erudition |
deep, extensive learning |
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pedantic |
focused on the small details of subject |
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perspicacious |
clear-sighted having or showing an ability to notice and understand things that are difficult or not obvious |
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pragmatic |
dealing with the problems that exist in a specific situation in a reasonable and logical way instead of depending on ideas and theories
practical |
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precocious |
of a child: having or showing the qualities or abilities of an adult at an unusually early age |
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prolific |
producing a large amount of something |
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prospectus |
formal proposal |
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rudimentary |
basic, elementary |
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abstruse |
hard to understand |
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callous |
not feeling or showing any concern about the problems or suffering of other people |
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convoluted |
complicated, intricate, hard to understand
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disaffected |
no longer happy and willing to support a leader, government, etc. lost faith or loyalty |
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enigma |
mystery or puzzle or riddle |
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inscrutable |
difficult to understand |
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reticent |
reserved |
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staid |
serious, boring, unemotional
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arcane |
known or understood by only a few people |
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assimilate |
to absorb to make or become similar |
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autonomy |
independence |
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cosmopolitan |
worldly, widely sophisticated |
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derivative |
something that comes from another source |
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esoteric |
only taught to or understood by members of a special group, hard to understand
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gaffe |
social blunder or error |
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idiosyncrasy |
characteristic peculiar to an individual or group |
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insular |
separated from other people or cultures, isolated |
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orthodox |
adhering to traditional established esp in religion |
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potentate |
a powerful leader |
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castigate |
to harshly criticize
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censure |
official criticism
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denounce |
to publicly criticize to condemn openly |
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reclusive |
preferring seclusion or isolation |
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relinquish |
to give up something by formal anouncement to give to another person or group |
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vituperative |
verbal abuse, harsh condemnation |
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circumscrivbe |
to draw a circle around, to restrict |
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contiguous |
sharing an edge or boundary, touching |