Wordly Wise Final
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- Abashed
- Embarrassed
- Arbiter
- Person able to judge or decide
- Benison
- Blessing
- Bluff
-
fool
frank
steep cliff - Canker
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Spreading sore
Evil Influence - Complaisant
- Obliging
- Crass
- Coarsely stupid
- Defame
- Attack the reputation of
- Ennui
- Boredom
- Funereal
- Gloomy
- Ideology
- Set of beliefs
- Inferno
-
Intense Heat
Hell - Mercenary
- Concerned only with making money
- Parsimonious
- Miserly
- Propaganda
- Deliberately spreading ideas that will help one's own cause or injure an enemy's
- Retrogress
- Worsen
- Surfeited
- Given too much of something
- Tureen
- Dish
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Ablutions - Washings
- Bauble
- Trinket
- Bestial
- Brutal
- Bombastic
- Pompous
- Chary
- Cautious
- Congenital
- Present from birth
- Cuisine
- Cooking
- Demote
- Reduce in rank
- Flux
-
Change
Flow
Substance used in joining metals - Garb
- Clothes
- Impeccable
- Faultless
- Invective
- Abusive language
- Ogle
- Glance flirtatiously
- Penury
- Extreme poverty
- Raillery
- Lighthearted teasing
- Scintillate
- Sparkle
- Survey
-
Measure
Look closely at
Detailed study - Verbatim
- Word for word
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Anneal - Toughen by heating and then cooling
- Becoming
- Pleasingly suitable
- Bizarre
- Fantastic
- Buoyant
-
Able to float
Cheerful - Chattel
- On movable property
- Cranium
- Top of the skull
- Culpable
- Blameworthy
- Endorse
-
Express support of
Sign the back of a check - Freebooter
- Pirate
- Hallmark
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Stamp on gold or silver objects
Distinguishing characteristic - Incognito
- With one's identity concealed
- Irrevocable
- unalterable
- Pacific
- Peaceful
- Pernicious
- Harmful
- Retinue
- Train of attendants
- Scrip
- Paper entitling the bearer to receive something
- Symmetrical
- Balanced
- Verve
- Enthusiasm
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Affirm - Assert
- Avarice
- Greed for money
- Courser
- Horse
- Devotee
- Ardent Supporter
- Dossier
- Collection of documents giving a detailed report
- Exonerate
- Declare Blameless
- Franchise
-
Right granted by a government or company
Right to vote - Herald
- Announce
- Instantaneous
- Immediate
- Marathon
-
Prolonged
Foot race of about 26 miles - Mettle
- Spirit
- Predicament
- Trying situation
- Sanctimonious
- Falsely pious
- Stevedores
- Dock workers
- Throng
- Crowd of people
- Unremitting
- Unending
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Annuity - Fixed yearly payment
- Bedeviled
- Tormented
- Decorum
- correctness and good taste
- Divers
- various
- Elemental
- Having to do with forces of nature
- Extant
- Still in existence
- Germinate
- Begin to develop
- Heterogeneous
- dissimilar
- Melodrama
- Unrealistic play in which good and evil are exaggerated
- Ocular
- Eye
- Partiality
- Liking
- Recession
- Moving backwards
- Sojourn
- Stay
- Stickler
- Person who makes strict demands
- Travesty
- Crude and mocking imitation
- Vendetta
- Feud
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Autonomous - Self-governing
- Belligerent
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Nations at war
Hostile - Default
- Fail to make payments
- Dogged
- Determined
- Emancipate
- Free
- Flora
- Plants
- Gourmets
- Experts on fine foods
- Hindmost
- Farthest back
- Mania
- Excessive enthusiasm
- Memoirs
- Autobiography
- Opulence
- Wealth
- Prate
- Talk foolishly
- Residue
- Remainder
- Sporadic
- an irregular occurrence
- Thermal
- Having to do with heat
- Umber
- earth color used in artist's paints
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Adherent - Supporter
- Amity
- Friendship
- Bloated
- Swollen
- Cataclysm
- Sudden, violent change
- Dessicate
-
remove the water from
drained of vitality - disheveled
- Rumpled
- Epaulet
- tassel-like shoulder decoration
- Hypochondriac
- Person unduly worried about his or her health
- In term
- Intervening period
- Luminous
- Clear
- Munitions
- War supplies
- Pedagogue
- Schoolteacher
- Prosaic
- Dull
- Regale
- Entertain
- supercilious
- Haughty
- Vitriolic
- Vicious
- Vitriol
- Sulphuric acid
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Affluent - Wealthy
- Assuage
- Lessen
- Butte
- Isolated, steep-sided hill
- Complacent
- Self-satisfied
- Desultory
- Aimless
- Dissertation
- Formal essay
- Exodus
- Departure
- Genteel
- Polite and refined
- Inebriated
- drunken
- Introspective
- Given to examining one's own thoughts
- Martinet
- Strict disciplinarian
- Oblivion
- Lack of awareness
- Pillory
- Wooden frame with holes for confining the head and hands
- Provocation
- Cause for anger
- Revoke
- Withdraw
- Tacit
- Unspoken
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Alloy - Mixture of metals
- Augury
- Omen
- Cadaver
- Dead body
- Decry
- denounce
- Devise
- Work out
- Entreat
- Beg
- Finite
- Limited
- Guillotine
- Machine for beheading people
- Inevitable
- Unavoidable
- Irrefutable
- That cannot be disputed
- Militant
- Aggressively active
- Obsolescent
- Outdated but still usable
- Prefatory
- Introductory
- Recluse
- Hermit
- Somnambulist
- Sleep walker
- Telepathy
- Thought transference
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Amenable - Responsive
- Automaton
- Self-regulating machine
- Cede
- Surrender
- Discredit
- Throw doubt on
- Disparage
- Belittle
- Extinct
- No longer in existence
- Fiasco
- Ridiculous failure
- Girded
-
Encircled
Fasten with a belt - Inception
- Beginning
- Limbo
- Condition of oblivion
- Pacify
- Bring peace to
- pejorative
- That tend to give an unfavorable impression
- Practicable
- Capable of being put into use
- Punitive
- Punishing
- Somatic
- Bodily
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Apologist - Defender of a policy or action
- Biannual
- Twice a year
- Chronometer
- Extremely accurate timepiece
- Definitive
- Final
- Discreet
- Cautiously tactful
- Enunciate
- Speak clearly
- Extremist
- Person who holds immoderate views
- Extrovert
- Person whose thoughts are directed outwards
- Florid
- Red
- Gist
- Main point
- Intimate
- Deeply private
- Lope
- Move easily
- Palpitate
- Beat rapidly
- Perpetrate
- to be guilty of
- Presentiment
- Feeling of impending misfortune
- Requite
- Return
- Stalactite
- hanging, icicle-like formation
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Assonance - Similarity in vowel sounds
- Buttress
- Strengthen
- Conception
-
General idea
Beginning of pregnancy - Diatribe
- Bitterly abusive speech
- Dismember
- Cut up
- Ethnic
- Racial
- Euphonious
- Pleasant sounding
- Fluster
- confuse
- Gruesome
- Horrible
- Invoke
-
Request help from
Call forth - Nutriment
- Nourishing substance
- Pecuniary
- financial
- Plebeian
- commonplace
- procrastinate
- delay
- roue
- person who leads a dissipated life
- torso
- body minus arms and legs