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23 Cards in this Set
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Auspicious |
showing or suggesting that future success is likely
attended by good fortune |
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Chicanery |
actions or statements that trick people into believing something that is not true:deception or trickery |
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Circumlocution |
the use of many words to say something that could be said more clearly and directly by using fewer words |
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Epiphany |
a Christian festival held on January 6 in honor of the coming of the three kings to the infant Jesus Christ
a moment in which you suddenly see or understand something in a new or very clear way |
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Paradigm |
a model or pattern for something that may be copied
a theory or group of ideas about how something should be done,made,or thought |
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Plagiarize |
to use words or ideas of another person as if they were your own words or ideas |
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Lexicon |
the words used in a language or by a person or group of people |
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Loquacious |
very talkative
talking smoothly and easily |
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Omnipotent |
having complete or unlimited power |
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Precipitous |
of the nature of or characterized by precipices
extremely or impassably steep |
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Qoutidian |
ordinary or very common
done each day |
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Recapitulate |
to give a brief summary of something |
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Soliloquy |
a long, usually serious speech that a character in a play makes to an audience and that reveals the character's thoughts |
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Usurp |
to take and keep (something, such as power) in a forceful or violent way and especially without the right to do so |
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Xenophobe |
one unduly fearful of what is foreign and especially of people of foreign origin |
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Churlish |
not polite |
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Abjure |
to reject(something) formally |
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Belie |
to give a false idea of (something) |
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Kinetic |
of or relating to the movement of physical objects |
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Laissez-faire |
a doctrine opposing governmental interference in economic affairs beyond the minimum necessary for the maintenance of peace and property rights
a philosophy or practice characterized by a usually deliberate abstention from direction or interference especially with individual freedom of choice and action |
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Lugubrious |
full of sadness or sorrow:very sad especially in an exaggerated or insincere way |
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Metamorphosis |
a major change in the appearance or character of someone or something
biology: a major change in the form or structure of some animals or insects that happens as the animal or insect becomes an adult |
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Parameter |
a rule or limit that controls what something is or how something should be done
math:a: an arbitrary constant whose value characterizes a member of a system (as a family of curves);also: a quantity (as mean or variance) that describes a statistical population
b:an independent variable used to express the coordinates of a variable point and functions of them |