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Section 1
(50 cards)
Brevity
Briefness or shortness
Abridge
Shorten condense
Grovel
To beg as a child
Hiatus
Break or rest
Gamut
A broad or entire scope or range
Colloquial
Informal speech
Abysmal
Wretched, very bad/deep
Quell
To quash, put down
Furtive
Sneaky
Efface
Destroy or wipe out
Emulate
Imitate or act like
Stoic
Little emotion or flat
Fatuous
Silly juvenile foolish
Aggrandize
To make bigger, exaggerate
Deft
Skilled
Paucity
Scarcity or lack of
Immaterial
Not important, insignificant
Irreverent
Disrespectful
Fodder
Food in relation to animals pred
Lugubrious
Sad mournful
Harbinger
Leader or one who brings change
Candor
Bold truthfulness
Castigate
Reprimand, discipline, yell at
Absolve
Free or pardon from sin
Verbose
Wordy long winded or talkative
Perspicacity
Insight or wisdom
Esoteric
Difficult to understand
Extol
Praise, lift up
Insipid
Lacking life/taste
Tenuous
Weak flimsy
Ubiquitous
Everywhere, all present
Inefficacious
Not producing desired effect
Feign
Fake or pretend
Genteel
Delicately beautiful, fashionable
Hubris
Pride
Destitute
Poor, in need
defenstrate
Throw out of window
Nebulous
Unclear in meaning
Digress
To stray from topic
Inculcate
Teach with frequent repititions
Foray
Raid or invasion
Fallacy
Lie, untruth, misleading
Coalesce
To come together, combine
Delineate
To line out or explain in detail
Augment
To add or make bigger
Pedantic
Overly attentive to details
Exacerbate
Make worse/severe
Allusion
Reference to something or someone
Deleterious
Harmful, injurious to others
Placate
To calm down or pacify
Section 2
(30 cards)