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What is an Oligarchy?
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A Oligarchy is a form of rule by a few people.
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few.
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What is Collectivism?
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Collectivism is a rule of the community.
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community.
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What is Totalitarianism?
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Totalitariansm is a system where government tries to control every aspect of your life.
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Total-itarianism.
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What is a pretext?
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A pretext is a fake reason to coer up the real reason.
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lie.
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What is Sence Memory?
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Sence Memory is a sensory experence that takes you back to your past.
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when a smell reminds you
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What is Catechism?
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Catechism is a list of questions and answers used for teaching, used mainly religiously.
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Why do this?
Because this this and this. Why was that? Because this this and this. |
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What is an allusion?
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A allusion is when a indirect refrence is given.
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That test was my achelies heel.
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What does the saying "blood is thicker then water" imply?
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It means your loyalty to your family (blood) is stronger then that with your friends (water).
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What does "carpe diem" mean/
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Carpe Diem means to seize the day.
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What dose it mean to "give the devil his due"?
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It means to igknowlage the positive traites in someone you dispise.
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i hate you but you are a nice kid.
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Sanguine. (pos, def)
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Adv. Hopeful.
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She was sanguine about getting an A on the test because she studied all night for it.
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Sordid
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Adj. Dirty; Mortally vile.
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They thought he was very sordid for swiming in the pig pen.
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Procure
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v. To get or obtain.
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He procured the money from the safe.
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interminable
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Adj. Being or seeming to be without an end; endless.
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Lord of the Rings: Return of the King seemed very interminable in that it draged on forever.
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Urbane.
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Adj. Suave, poliched, defined.
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At the party he seemed very urbane with all the ladies.
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Lucid.
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Clear in mind.
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Joe, seeming to know everything about his topic, remained lucid during his presentation to the class.
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Equivocal
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adj. open to multiple interpratations.
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She was equivocal about her poem she read to the class.
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Mutable
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Adj.
Capable of or subject to change or alteration |
The weather in Lafayette has been very mutable in that its has been changin from day to day.
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Pedantic
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Adj. Showing off unimportant knowlage.
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During class the teacher was being pedantic talking about how he figured out pie.
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protuberant.
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Adj. To stick out.
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When he broke his arm one of his bones was protuberant from his skin.
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Heresy
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N. an atack on that which is sacrid.
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The heritic confronted the pope and told him religion is a joke.
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