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87 Cards in this Set
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adulterate
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to corrupt
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ambidextrous
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able to use both hands qually well; skillful; deceitful, hypocritical
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augment
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to make larger, increase
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bereft
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deprived of
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deploy
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to position or arrage
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dour
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stern, unyielding, gloomy
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fortitude
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courage in facing difficulties
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gape
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to stare with open mouth
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gibe
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to say taunting words; expression of scorn
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guise
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external appearance (cover, mask)
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insidious
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intended to deceive or entrap; sly and treacherous
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intimation
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a hint, indirect suggestion
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opulent
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wealthy, luxurious, ample, grandiose
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pliable
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easily bent, flexible
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reiterate
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to say again; repeat
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stolid
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not easily moved mentally or emotionall; dull, unresponsive
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tentative
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experimental in nature; uncertain, hesitant
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unkempt
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not combed; untidy; rude
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verbatim
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word for word
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warily
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cautiously
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adroit
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skillful
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amicable
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friendly
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averse
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having deep-seated istate
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belligerent
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warlike
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benevolent
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charitable and kindly
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cursory
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hasty
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duplicity
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treachery, deceifulness
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extol
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to priase extravagantly
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feasible
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possible
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grimace
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wry face; facial distortion
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holocaust
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large-scale destruction, especially by fire; burnt offering
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impervious
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not affected or hurt by
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impetus
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moving force, stimulus or impulse
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jeopardy
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danger
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meticulous
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extremely careful; attention to details
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nostalgia
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longing for something in the past
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quintessense
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purest essence or form of something
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retrogress
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to move backwards; to return to earlier condition
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scrutinize
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to examine closely
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tepid
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lukewarm; unenthusiastic; marked by absense of interest
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adversary
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opponent; enemy
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alienate
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to tun away
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artifice
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skillful or ingenious device; clever trick; trickery
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coerce
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to compel; force
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craven
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cowardly; a coward
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culinary
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of/related to cooking/kitchen
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delete
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to erase
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demise
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a death
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exhilarate
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to enliven, cheer, give spirit or liveliness to
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fallow
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plowed by unseeded; inactive
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harass
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to diturb, worry
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inclement
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stormy, harsh
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muse
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to think about in dreamy way, ponder
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negligible
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so unimportan that it can be disregarded
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perpetuate
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to make permanent or long lasting
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precedent
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an example that may serve as basis for imitation or later action
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punitive
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inflicting or aiming at punishment
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redress
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to set right, remedy; relief from wrong or injury
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sojourn
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a temporary stay; to stay for a time
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urbane
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refined in manner or style, suave
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geminism
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priniple that women should have plitical, economic, and social rights equal to those of men
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chicano
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people in the US whose ancestry can be traced to Mexico
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bildungsroman
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genre that details the maturation, psychological devlopment and moral education of the principal character; German for 'growth and devlopment'
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vignette
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a short literary sket or description
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postmodernism
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critical theory that questions objective truth, intrinsic meaning, and assertiosn of privilege and power
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barrio
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spanish word meaning district; currently a spansih-speaking neighborhood
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imergy
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colelctive set of images
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canteen
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small cafeterial or snack bar
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pun
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play of words that sound the same with different meanings
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oxymoron
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pairing of contradictory words
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paradox
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seeming contradiction that proves to be true
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alliteration
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repetition of initial consonant sound
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smilie
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a figure of speech that makes a direct comparison between two subjects using either like, as, or than
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metaphor
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a figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else. the identification suggests a comparison between two things that are identified as in "death is a long sleep"
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personification
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figure of speech where a nonhuman object is given human characteristics. effective personification of things or ideas make them seem vital and alive, as if human
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sonnet
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composed of three quatrains and a concluding couplet, rhyming abab cdcd efef gg
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quatrain
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four line stanza; four line division of sonnet marked off by rhyme scheme
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couplet
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two successive lines, usually in same meter, linked by rhyme
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scansion
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analysis of verse into matrical patterns
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iamb
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metrical unit with unstressed and stressed syllables
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imabic pentameeter
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type of meter in poetry, consisting of five feet in which the imab is drominant foot
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rhyme
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verse marked by consonance of the terminal sounds
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stress
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relative loudness or force of vocal utterance;
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soliloquy
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speech where character addresses audience directly revealing his/her thoughts; character alone on stage
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foil
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used to set contrast of characters
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antithesis
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figure of speech characterized by stongly contrasting words, cluases, sentences, or ideas; similar grammatical structure
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allusion
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brief reference in text to person, place, or thing - fictitious or actual.
usually myths and mythology |