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20 Cards in this Set
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Academy
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a learned establishment for the advancement of knowledge
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Arcadian
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Used of idealized country life
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Croesus
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A very wealthy man
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Cynic
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Someone who is critical of the motives of others; a member of a group of ancient Greek philosophers who advocated the doctrine that virtue is the only good and that the essence of virtue is self-control
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Draconian
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Of or relating to Draco or his harsh code of laws
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Epicure
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A person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink)
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Gordian
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Extremely intricate; usually in phrase 'Gordian knot'
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Helot
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A person who is bound to the land and owend by the feudal lord
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Laconic
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Brief and to the point
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Mausoleum
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A large burial chamber, usually above ground
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Meander
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A bend or curve, as in a stream or river; to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course
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Ostracism
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The act of excluding someone from society by general consent
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Philippic
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A speech of violent denunciation
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Pyrrhic
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Of or relating to Pyrrhus or his exploits; of or relating to or containing a metrical foot of two unstressed syllables; of or relating to a war dance of ancient Greece
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Solecism
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A socially awkward or tackless act
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Sophistry
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A deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone
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Spartan
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Resolute in the face of pain or danger or adversity; practicing great self-denial; unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment
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Stoic
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Seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive; a member of the ancient Greek school of philosophy founded by Zeno
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Damocles
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The Greek courtier to Dionysius the Elder who was condemned to sit under a naked sword that was suspended by a hair in order to demonstrate to him that being a king was not the happy state Damocles had said it was
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Sybarite
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A person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses
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