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104 Cards in this Set
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Baseness
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morally low; without estimable personal qualities
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replication
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a reply; answer
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homage
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respect or reverence paid or rendered
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vulgar
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indecent; obscene; lewd
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ominously
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portending evil or harm; foreboding; threatening
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vexed
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irritated; annoyed
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mettle
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couragte and fortitude
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bestow
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to present as a gift; give; confer
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augmented
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to make (something already developed or well under way) greater
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spurn
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to reject with disdain; scorn
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taper
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gradual decrease of force; capacity, etc.
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affability
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pleasantly easy to approach and to talk to
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gravity
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serious or critical nature
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augurer
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soothsayer; prophet
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rhetoric
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the ability to use language effectively
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enfranchisement
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freedom from political subjugation or servitude
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confounded
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bewildered; confused; perplexed
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mutiny
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revolt or rebellion against constituted authority
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unassailable
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not open to attack or assault, as by military force or argument
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malice
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desire to inflict injury, harm, or suffering on another
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anachronism
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the representation of someone as existing or something as happening in other than chronological order
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capitalism
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an econ. sys. in which the means of production & distribution are privatly/corp. owned and developmebt is proportionate to the accumulation of profits in free market
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socialism
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a social sys. in where the producing/distributing of goods are owned collectively and political power is excersied by the whole community
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communism
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a social sys. based on COLLECTIVE owenership; socail classes are absent
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dictatorship
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a sys. led by ONE absolute leader
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totalitarianism
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a group of people in absolute power over the people
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utopia
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a place or state of political/social perfection
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allegory
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a figurative treatment of one subject under the guise of another; symbolic narrative
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fable
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a short tale to teach a moral often w/ animals as characters
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ensconced
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to settle securely or snuggly
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benevolent
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desiring to do good to others
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vivacious
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buoantly spirited in manner
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maltreating
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to treat badly
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capered
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leap in a playful manner
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implements
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a device for assisting manual work, for agriculture
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parasitical
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diseased with parasites....
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contemptable
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despicable
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ignominious
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dicreditable or humiliating
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sordid
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selfish, not noble
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resolution
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the resulting state
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laborious
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requiring much work.
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compensated
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to counter balance
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emboldened
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to foster boldness or courage; encourage
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stupified
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little/no sensibility
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pervading
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spread through all parts
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acute
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sharp. severe
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indefatigable
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incapable of being tired out
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efficiency
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state of being efficient
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dissentients
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especially from the sentiment or policies of majority
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unanimous
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of one mind; in complete agreement
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inscribed
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to address or dedicate informally to a person.
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lyric
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short poem expressing thoughts/feelings of the author
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narrative
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poetry that tells a story
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dramatic
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poem that has a character speaking.
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didactic
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poem that states a message, or moral
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allusion
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an indirect reference to any person place or thing.
"i am grass" poem... |
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denotation
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as defined in the dictionary
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connotation
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what meaning a word gains to you based on your expirences
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hyperbole
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exaggerated statement
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metonymy
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use of the name of one thing for another of which its an attribute or which it is associated.
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synecdoche
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part is put for the whole.
sails; ships. |
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john steinbeck's birth - death
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1902-1968
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What did steinbeck write about?
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* working class, everyday people
* victims of great depression |
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steinbecks most famous novel
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the grapes of rath
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earned him Pultzier Prize
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THE grapes of rath
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1962 steinbeck
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nobel prize in literature
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where did steinbeck go to college for LEARNING only?
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stanford
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shakespeare was born in _____ upon Avon on ___________.
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stratford
April 23, 1564 |
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Shakspeare moved to London in "the lost years" in _____.
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1580s
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shakespeares plays werent published till ____
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1623
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shake. died in _____.
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1616
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what authors WERE influential to shakspeare?
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ovid, terence, plautus
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Caesars Death
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March 15th, 44 BC
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valued by the Romans:
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beauty in artwork and archittechture, loyalty to country, civilization
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Brutus blamed _______ for the fall of his army
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caesar
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"Here is the will, and under Caesars's seal: To every Roman citizen he gives, To every seversal man, seventy five drachmas."
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Antony said...
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"fierce fiery warriors fought upon the clouds, In ranks and sqaudrons and right forn of war, which drizzled blood upon the capital."
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Calpurhnia said...
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"I think it is not meet, Mark Antony, so well beloved of Caesar, should outlive Caesar."
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Cassius said...
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"to keep w/ you @ meals, comfort your bed, and talk to you sometimes? Dwell i but in the suburbs of your good pleasure?"
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Portia said...
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"as i slew my best lover for the good of Rome, I have the same dagger for myself..."
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Brutus said...
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"why, man, he odth bestride the narrow world, like a colossus...."
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Cassius said...
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"cowards die many times before their deaths, the valiant never taste death but once'
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Caesar said...
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"No, my Brutus, you have some sick offense within your mind which by the right and virtue of my place ought i know of"
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Portia said....
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"You all did see that on the lupercal i thrice presented him a kingly crown, which he did thrice refuse"
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Antony said...
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windmill
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modernization of Russia
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the barn
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alterations in animalism
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boxer
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working class.
easily influenced, but still influenced others with his words... |
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napolean
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Stalin
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squealer
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propoganda to the russian people
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old major
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marxism/lenin
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mr jones
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Nicholas II
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snowball
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trotsky
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Mr. Pilkington
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America/Britian
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Mr. Frederick
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Hitler.
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NIcholas II forced to leave, end of Russian Empire
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February 1917
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lenin and trotsky come into play; the bolshevik overthrow the gov't.
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October 1917
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Lenin dies
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1924
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Stalin killed millions;if you had new ideas, were a fan of trotsky etc. when was this?
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the great purges, 1930s
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names a person place thing or idea.
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noun
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describes a noun
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adj.
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modify verbs/adj/other adv
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averb
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indicate action/state of being
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verb
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links nouns, pronouns, or other phrases. preps usually indicate relationship
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preposition
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links words, phrases clauses in a sentence
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conjunction
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