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29 Cards in this Set
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overtly
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open, observable, not hidden or concealed
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redemptive
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salvific, deliverance
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impending
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about to happen, going to occur
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Y2K
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idea that millennium would compromise computer and end world as we know it
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The Reformation
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Protestant rebellion against the Roman Catholic Church
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cloistered
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conformity, seclusion from the world, such as offered by monastery or convent
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Who is T.S. Elliot?
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a poet
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Who is Francis Fukuyama
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a philosopher, The Last Man.
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Who is Karl Marx
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Communist Manifesto.
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Who is F Hegal?
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A philosopher of ___ opposition and synthesis
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indisputable
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cannot argue this
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hyperbolic
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exaggerated
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soporific
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tending to induce sleep
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naivete
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state of being inexperienced, unsophisticated, credulous, uncritical
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visceral
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from the "gut" instinct
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egregious
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conspicuously bad or offensive
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exacerbate
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to aggravate or make a situation worse
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chagrin
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embarrassment
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icon
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an important enduring symbol
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seminal
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power to create, influential in an original way
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exemplified
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illustrated by example
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prediclection
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a preference for something
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Tribulations
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tumultuous days prophesied in the Bible that would precede the return of Christ.
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tectonic
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movements of earth
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discourse
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verbal expression in speech or writing
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Pax Americana
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peace in america. project for the new american century
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Who is F. Nietzsche
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I DON'T KNOW
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purgatory
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a place of misery
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emblematic
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symbolic
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