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22 Cards in this Set
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Read the riot act
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An act passed by British Parliament which means to chew out someone.
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Judas Iscariot
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Anyone who betrays another person.
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Concede
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To yield a point reluctantly
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D-Day
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Critical moment of truth
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Due process of law
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May not be denied life, liberty, or property without appropriate legal procedures
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Fascism
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A government that controls by means of intmidation
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Ethnic Cleansing
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Forced removal of an ethnic group
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Deep Six
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To throw something away or abandon it
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Alpha and Omega
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First and last letters of the Greek alphabet; represents God
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Bandwagon
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Logical fallacy that means to do something just because everyone else is doing it or it must be true because everyone else says so
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Prolepsis
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Foreshadowing
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Marxism
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A classless society
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Brutus
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Betrayed by his close friend
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Pushing the envelope
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Testing outermost limits
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Siren song
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Something with irresistible appeal
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Everyman
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OrdinarY JoE, SimpLe
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Genocide
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Destruction of a race
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Digression
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To wander from what is being said
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Begging the question
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Overloading
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Circular reasoning
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Restates rather than proving the argument
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Paralepsis
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Pretending to avoid discussing something but actually emphasizing it
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Polysyndeton
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Deliberate use of a series of conjunctions
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