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18 Cards in this Set
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pall |
a cloth, often of velvet, for spreading over a coffin, bier, or tomb |
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polyglot |
able to speak or write several languages; multilingual |
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scathing |
bitterly severe, as a remark |
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stolid |
not easily stirred or moved mentally; unemotional; impassive |
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raucous |
harsh; strident; grating |
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ostentatiously |
characterized by or given to pretentious or conspicuous show in an attempt to impress others |
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galling |
chafing; irritating; vexing; exasperating |
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chafed (not related to skin) |
a state of vexation |
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puerile |
of or pertaining to a child or to childhood |
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façade |
a deceptive outward appearance |
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inextricable |
from one cannot extricate oneself |
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abjectly |
utterly hopeless, miserable, humiliating, or wretched |
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goy |
a term used by a jew to refer to someone who is not jewish |
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acquiescence |
the act or condition of giving tacit assent; agreement or consent by silence or without objection; compliance |
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magnanimous |
generous in forgiving an insult or injury; free from petty resentfulness or vindictiveness |
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hegemony (find a real life example) |
leadership or predominant influence exercised by one nation over others, as in an confederation
"Cardinal Richelieu probably didn't have culinary hegemony in mind when he helped invent the modern dinner knife in 1637." |
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archaic |
marked by the characteristics of an earlier period; antiquated |
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arcane |
known or understood by very few; mysterious; secret; obscure; esoteric |
