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20 Cards in this Set
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Animosity |
Strong,dislike |
The growing animosity |
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Apathy |
A lack of feeling |
Greeted my idea with total apathy. |
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Apprehensive |
Fearful,or anxious |
Tried to calm the apprehensive parents. |
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Commend |
To praise |
Commend her for her excellent grades. |
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Compatible |
Able to get along or work well together |
Statement not compatible with the facts |
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Condolence |
An expression of sympathy |
A condolence call |
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Consecrate |
To make sacredcon |
Consecrate the new church |
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Decrepit |
Old and feeble |
Unwilling to ride in a decrepit |
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Deride |
To ridicule |
Deride our accomplishments |
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Ingenuous |
Innocent,simple |
take advantage of the ingenious youth |
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Multifarious |
Having a great variety |
A busy schedule of multifarious |
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Obsolete |
Out of date |
Get rid of the obsolete machinery |
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Omnivorous |
Eating any kind of food |
An omnivorous animal |
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Parsimonious |
Stingy,miserly,meager |
His parsimonious employer |
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Quandary |
A state of perplexity or doubt |
Help us out of this quandary. |
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Recalcitrante |
Stubbornly,disobedient |
Threaten to punish the recalcitrant |
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Reprisal |
An injury done in return for injury. |
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Revel |
To take great pleasure in |
Revel in the attention |
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Stultify |
To make ineffective or useless |
Stultify by the oppressive heat |
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Suave |
Smoothly agreeable or polite |
A suave man about town |
