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149 Cards in this Set
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Logos
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word, knowledge, or study
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Theos
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god
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Bis
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twice or two
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Philein
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love
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Misein
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hate
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Monos
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one
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Anthropos
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man or mankind
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Polys
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many
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Gamos
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marrige
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Cupis
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point
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Glotta
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tongue
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Loquacious
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too talkative
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Gullible
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easily decieved
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Suave
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smooth but sometimes overly gracious
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Pompous
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suggesting ostentatious display
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Esthetic
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appreciating or loving the beautiful; artistic
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Taciturn
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habitually silent or unwilling to converse
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Opinionated
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unduly attracted to one's own opinions
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Phlegmatic
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calm; complacent emotinally sluggish or unresponsive
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Erudite
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very learned
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Complacent
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comepletely self- satisfied; smug
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Indefatiguable
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never tiring; not exhausted by exercise
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Iconoclastic
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one who mocks traditio or cherished beliefs
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Misanthropic
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hater of mankind
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Purile
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immature; juvenile
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Acetic
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practicing extreme abstinence or self- dicipline
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Punctilious
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very exact in the observance in forms of etiquette, ceremony, or behavior
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Vapid
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lacking spark, flavor, or intrest; dull, empty, flat
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Optometrist
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checks and corrects vision by prescirbing and fitting eyeglasses
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Osteopath
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works on theory that diseases arise cheifly from the displacement of bones, with resultant pressure on nerves and blood vessels
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Orthodontist
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specializes in straitening crooked teeth and in correcting bad bites
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Pediatrician
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takes over after and obstetrician treating infants and very young children
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Opthalmologist
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a doctor and often trained surgeon that treats the eyes
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Dermatologist
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specializes in treatment of the skin
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Obstetrician
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cares for pregnat women and their babies
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Podiatrist
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treats the minor aliments of your feet
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Optician
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grinds lens for glasses
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Gynecologist
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specializes in diseases particular to women
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Phychologist
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a medical specialist in mental health disorders and emotional problems
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Sycophant
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by insincere flattery and pretennded servility hopeto make people think of him kindly
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Philologist
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scholar of language and speech
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Vituoso
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reached greatest hieghts or skill in music, art, or language
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Circe
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she got pleasure in luring men to their destruction
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Virago
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she is the loud mouthed, turbulent, battle-axe type; vivious, nag, scold
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Adonis
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he is the handsome greek- god type who makes the hearts of girls flutter
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Pedant
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greratest dellight is in correcting pety errors
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Esthetic
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person of fine taste and artistic flair
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Coquette
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this promises much flirts egregiously and delivers very little
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Connoisseur
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critical judge of excellence in arts, food, drinks, and women
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Tyro
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beginner in some profession, occupation, or art
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Judas
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not trustworthy
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Numismatic
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collects coins
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Demegogue
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by appealing to the prejudices and hatreds of the population, to further his political ambitions
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Martinet
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stickler for dicipline
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Clairvoyant
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claims the ability to see things not visiblee to thjose with normal sight
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Philatelist
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collects stamps
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Gourmet
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knowledgeable and fastidious about eating and drinking, devoted to excelent food
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Agnostic
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believes that there may or may not be a God
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Amazon
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she's tall and strapping, masculine kind of woman
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Futilitarian
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sees no particular point in anything in life
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Atheist
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believes that God is a figment of the imagination and hence comepletely non-existant
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Vulgarian
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vulgar in taste and manners
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Phobia
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fear
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Kleptomania
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obsessive thievery
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Pyromania
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obsessed with fire
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Dipsomania
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an irresistible, typically periodic craving for alcoholic drink.
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Megalomania
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an obsession with doing extravagant or grand things.
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Monomania
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one single obsession
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Hypochodria
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fear of illness
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Amnesia
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loss of memory
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Somnanbulism
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sleep walking
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Insomnia
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sleeplessness
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Manic depression
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hilarity followed by gloom; a mental disorder characterized by episodes of mania and depression
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Schizophrania
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a severe mental disorder characterized by some, but not necessarily all, of the following features: emotional blunting, intellectual deterioration, social isolation, disorganized speech and behavior, delusions, and hallucinations; no contact with reality
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Meloncholia
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overwhelming sadness
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Paranoia
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A psychotic disorder characterized by delusions of persecution with or without grandeur, often strenuously defended with apparent logic and reason
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Oedipus Complex
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extreme attachment to mother
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Electra Complex
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extreme attachment to father
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Claustrophobia
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fear of tight spaces
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Agoraphobia
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fear of open areas
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Expiate
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make amends for
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Vegetate
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live in a passive way
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Ostracize
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exclude form public
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Procrastinate
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put off or delay
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Rusticate
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Spend time in the country
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Vicarious
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substitutional
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Maudin
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tearfully or excessively sentimental
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Pander
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to cater to base desires
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Gregarious
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preffering to company of thers to solitude
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Effete
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spent; exhausted
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Ascetic
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praticing extreme self-denial
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Rationalize
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to attribute one's actions to rational and credible motives' without an adequate analsis of the true and usually unconscious motives
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Obsequious
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seviley attentive; fawning
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Subliminate
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to direct attintion form its primative and and destructive aim to one that is culturaly or ethnically higher and therefore socially acceptable
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Wanton
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unchaste; lewd;
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Vegetate
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Live in a passive way
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Mulct
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dreprive of a possesion unjustly
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Expiate
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make amends for
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Importune
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to beg
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Ostracize
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exclude from or private favor; ban
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Procrastinate
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put off until a later date
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Scintilate
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sparkle with wit and humor
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Rusticate
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spending time the country
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Impute
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ascribe; blame, charge a thought to someone in an acusing way
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Depricate
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to disapprove of the actions of someone
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Antimetabole
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A figure in which the same words or ideas are repeated in transposed order.
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Cloze test
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A test for diagnosing reading ability; words are deleted from a prose passage and the reader is required to fill in the passage.
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Enthymeme
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A syllogism or other argument in which a premise or the conclusion is unexpressed.
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Anglo-Saxon Diction
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language characterized by simppl, short sentences
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Heuristic
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involving or serving as an aid to learning, discovery, or problem solving by experimental and especially trial-and-error methods
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Epithet
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a characterizing word or phrase or occuringin place of the name of a person, place, or thing
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Synedoche
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a figure of speech by which a part is put for the whole
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Petitio Principii
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a logical fallcay in which a premise is assumed to be true withot warrtant or in wich what id to be proved is implicitly tkaen for granted
"He recived the highest amountof money because he recieved the money." |
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Trope
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a figure of dpeech using words in non-literal ways, such as a metaphor
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Zeugma
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the use of a word to modify or govern two or more words when it is appropriate to each but in a different wa
" to wage war and peace" "On his fishing trip he caught two fish and a cold" |
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Knonoi
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the logical way a person thinks
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Casuistry
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the application of general ethical principles to particular casaes of conscience or conduct (right and wrong)
"stealing is bad unless you have a good reason for it" |
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Exordium
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a beginning or introductory part especially of a speech or treatise
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Non Sequitur
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an inference or a conclusion that does not follow from the premises
"Lauren Conrad is a on a realty show thereforehe is a good actress." |
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Anthmeria
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hte use of a word asd if it were a mmember of a different word class (part of speech); typically the use of noun as a verb
"the thunder would not peace at my bidding" |
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Recursive
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referring to the moving forth from invention to revision in the process of writing (writing process)
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Periphrasis
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the substitution of a word or phrase for a proper noun
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Tautology
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needless repition of an idea,esp. in words other than those of the immediate context, without imparting additional force or clearness, as in "widow woman"
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Versimilatude
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something seemingly authentic, having the appearance of truth
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Syllogism
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an extremely subtle or deceptive arugument. A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a monor premise, and a conclucion.
"All humans are mortal", major premise. "I am human," minor premse. "Therefore, i am mortal." |
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Pentad
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1. Act: what happened?
2. Scence: where is the act happening? what is the background situation? 3. Agent: who is involved? 4. Agency: how did the agents act? by whatmeans do they act? 5. Purpose: why do the agents act? what do they want? |
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Mmemonic Device
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a method for enhancing memory; a trick to help someone memorize something
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HOMES
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Asyndeton
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the omission of conjunctions that ordinarily join coordinate clauses
"I came, I saw, I conquered" |
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Anadiplosis
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to double; a repition of the last word of a clause, and at the beginning of the next clause.
"When I give, I give of myself"- Walt Whitman |
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Imperceptible
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Too slight to be percieved, or realized
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Despotism
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The act of having absolute power, control, or tyranny over something or something else
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Synonym: Dictatorship
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Elegaic
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expressing sorrow; of, or relating to an elegy or mourning
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Canon
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Composed of 5 traditional elements:
1. Invention- Pentad,Journalist's ?s, Aristole's topics 2. arrangement- Exordium, partition, Entheyme 3. Memory- Mnemonic Devices 4. Delivery 5. Style |
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Evocation of Place
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Calling forth
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Anacrusis
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An unstressed syllable or group of syllables thats begins a line, a verse but is not counted as a part of the first foot
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Connotation
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The associated or secondary meaning of a word or expression in addition to its explicit or primary meeting
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Peroration
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1.A long speech characterized by lofty and often pompous language
2.Rhetoric: the concluding part of a speech or discourse in which the speaker or writer recapitulates the principle points and urges them with greater force and eagerness |
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Metonymy
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A figure of speech that consists of the use of the name of one object or concept for that of another to which it is related or of which it is a part,
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"scepter" for "soveriegnty", or "the battle" for "strong doing", or "count heads (or noses)" for "count people"
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Epistrophe
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1. The repition of a group of words that are at the end of a succesive clause
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"Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil."
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Periodic Sentence
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A sentence in which the main clause or its predicate is withheld until the end
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"Unable to join the others at the dance because of my sprained ankle, i went to a movie."
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Inverted Syntax
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Reversing the normal word order of a sentence
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Parallel Structure
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The use of similar forms in writing for nouns, verbs, phrases, or thoughts
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"Jane enjoys reading, writing, and skiing." (parallel -ing)
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Denotation
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The literal menaing of a word, rather than its implied meaning
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Hyperbole
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1. Obvious and intentional exaggeration
2. an extravagant statement or figure of speech |
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Servile (adj.)
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Slavish, submissive, or obsequious; of or suitable to a slave or servant; submissive or fawning in attitude or behavior
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Napoleon, unquestionably, was a man of genius.
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Parenthetical
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1. Used to describe writing writing that contains additional (comments or notes added as parenthesis)
*must be separated by comma before and after it *words, phrases, clauses, etc. are parenthetical if they are not essential to the meaning of a sentence |
History, in a word, is replete with moral lessons.
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Pedantic
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To be concerned with formal rules and details in language
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bookish and erudic
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Dichotomy
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Division into two parts, kinds, etc.; Subdivision into halves or pairs
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Inversion
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To reverse the position, order, or condition of; to put inside out or upside down
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