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45 Cards in this Set
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Who wrote The Rockinghorse Winner?
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DH Lawrence
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Who wrote Gulliver’s Travels?
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Jonathon Swift
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Who wrote Oroonoko?
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Aphra Behn
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Who wrote Canterbury Tales?
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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Who wrote Macbeth?
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William Shakespeare
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Who wrote To Althea, From Prison?
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Richard Lovelace
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Who wrote Sir Gawain and the Green Knight?
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Pearl-poet
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Who wrote Le Morte d’ Arthur?
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Sir Thomas Malory
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Who wrote The Passionate Shepherd to His Love?
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Marlowe
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Who wrote The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd?
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Sir Walter Raleigh
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Who wrote Frankenstein?
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Mary Shelley
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Who wrote A Tale of Two Cities?
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Charles Dickens
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Who wrote The Importance of Being Earnest?
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Oscar Wildes
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Abhorrence:
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hate coupled with disgust
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Acquiesce:
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to agree or express agreement
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Altruistic:
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showing unselfish concern for the welfare of others
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Ambiguous:
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open to two or more interpretations
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Articulate:
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To make clear or effective
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Belligerent:
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Aggressive
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Cajole:
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To encourage or persuade by effort
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Capricious:
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Impulsive and unpredictable
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Corroborate:
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To confirm
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Esoteric:
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Confined to and understandable by only an enlightened inner circle
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Exacerbate:
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Make worse
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Fallacy:
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Deceptive or false appearance
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Fastidious:
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Giving careful attention to detail
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Imminent:
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Close in time; about to occur
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Incorrigible:
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Impervious to correction by punishment
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Juxtapose:
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Place side by side
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Lethargic:
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Sluggish, slow
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Lucid:
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Clear; easily understood
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Precocious:
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Characteristic of exceptionally early development or maturity
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Prodigious:
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Huge
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Prudent:
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Careful and sensible
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Quandary:
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A state of not knowing what to decide
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Querulous:
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Fretful: habitually complaining
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Rancor:
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A feeling of deep and bitter anger
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Scrupulous:
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Exactly and carefully conducted
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Substantiate:
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Confirm
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Superfluous:
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In excess of what is required
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Tedious:
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Boring
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Verbose:
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Using or containing too many words
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Vicarious:
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Experienced at secondhand
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Volatile:
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Changing or changeable
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Voracious:
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Eating with greediness
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