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11 Cards in this Set
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Allay |
(verb) - to put (fear, doubt, suspicion, anger, etc.) to rest; to calm; quiet; to lessen to relieve |
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Capacious |
(adjective) - capable of holding much; spacious or roomy |
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Didactic |
(adjective) - intended for instruction; instructive; inclined to teach or intending to teach a moral lesson |
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Diurnal |
(adjective) - of or relating to a day or each day; daily; of or belonging to the daytime; active by day, as certain birds or insects |
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Ignominious |
(adjective) - marked by or attended with ignominy; discreditable; humiliating; bearing or deserving disgrace or dishonor |
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Mitigate |
(verb) - to lessen the force or intensity, as wrath, grief, harshness, or pain; to make less severe; to make milder or more gentle |
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Palpitate |
(verb) - to pulsate with unusual rapidity from exertion, emotion, disease, etc.; flutter; quiver; throb; tremble |
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Phlegmatic |
(adjective) - not easily excited to action or display of emotion; apathetic; sluggish; self-possessed, calm, or composed |
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Propitious |
(adjective) - presenting favorable conditions; favorable; indicative or favor; auspicious; disposed to bestow favors or forgive |
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Prostrate |
(verb, adjective) - to cast (oneself) face down on the ground in humility; submission, or adoration; to lay flat; lying flat or at full length, as on the ground; submissive; disconsolate |
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Sentence Structure: Chiasmus |
Verbal pattern in which the second half of an expression is balanced against the first with the parts reversed ("You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.") |
