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Date created
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Section 1
(50 cards)
Moratorium
Suspension of an activity
drivel
silly nonsense
burgeoning
Flourishing or growing
pique
irritation or provoke
malign
to speak evil of
deprecate
disapproval
abscond
to leave secretly
colloquial
informal writing/speaking
lampoon
a written satire used to ridicule or attack someone
obtuse
non observant, vague, slow
sanguine
cheerfully optimistic
Malfeasance
unjustified acts by a public official
eschew
shun
recuperative
heal or recover
amalgamation
mixing or merging
Quagmire
what you are sinking into, a hazardous situation
squemish
Easily shocked
taciturn
inclined to silence
inundated
flood or overwhelm
parsimonious
frugal or stingy
diffident
lacking confidence
machination
plotting or scheme
cacophony
harsh dissonant, mixtures of sound
Iconoclast
attacks beliefs as being based on error or superstition
corpulent
fat
facetious
not meant to be taken seriously
espouse
to support adopt
perennial
lasting indefinitely, enduring
recalcitrant
resisting authority
abrogate
repeal or abolish formally like a law
empyreal
heavenly
abstruse
hard to understand
moribund
dying
posthumous
after death
encumbrance
something useless or burdensome
commensurate
corresponding in amount
enigmatic
puzzling hard to understand
superfluous
excessive
Carping
Fussy
repugnance
distasteful or offensive
heratic
Apposing the common religion
acerbic
sour or bitter
fortuitous
accidental, occurring by a happy chance
dogmatic
stubborn to follow rules
mercurial
changeable eratic
coagulate
curdle, from liquid to mass
efficacious
Effective
emissary
An agent sent on a mission
clairvoyant
seeing beyond/to the future
misanthrope
hater of humankind
Section 2
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