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23 Cards in this Set
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having or seeming to have a hidden or ambiguous meanning
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cryptic
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easily managed;docile;yielding
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tractible
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made or done without previous preparation
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imprompt
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desire to do good to others; good will or charitableness
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benevolent
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marked by or attened with humiliation
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ingominious
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something that is put forward to conceal a true purpous or object
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pretext
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published after the death of an author
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posthumously
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to find fault with; to blame
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reproch
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to cover or shelter; hide
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ensconced
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an expression of as general truth or principle
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maxim
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at a distance; out of involvement
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aloof
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to take out of the place of interment
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disinterred
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bearing demeanor
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countenance
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to renounce without intent to recover or resume
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forshook
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manifesting or feeling
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contemptuously
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behavior towards others
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demeanor
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to skip about in play
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gambolling
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a legendary story of supernatural happining
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fable
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a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn
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satire
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the expression by means of symbolic ficinal figures ad actions of truts or generalizations about human existance
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allegory
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a pretense of ingnorance and of willingness to learn from another assumed in order to make the other's false conceptions
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irony
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the art or practice of using symbols
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symbolism
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to present an indication or a sugestion of befor hand; presage
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forshadowing
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