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79 Cards in this Set
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Ipso Facto
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By that Fact
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Quixotic
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impractical pusuit of ideals
Comes from Don Quixote |
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Feet of clay
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Failing/weakness in a persons character
Comes from the Bible |
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the
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Ars Longa
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Art is long
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Bedlam
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wild uproar/confusion
St.Mary's Hospital in Bethlehem |
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Throw down the gauntlet
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To issue a challenge
Came from the romans |
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Adjective
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ad-jec-tive
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Cogito Ergo Sum
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I think therefore I am
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Narcissism
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personality trait of Egotism
Narcissisis |
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15 minutes of fame
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Fleeting Glory
Warhol's Expedition Catalogue |
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Worcestershire
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woosh-tur-shire
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Deus Ex Machina
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God from/in the machine
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Yahoo
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Yahoo brothers created Yahoo...
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A simon legree
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to be excessively cruel
Came from Simon Legree the slave dealer |
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Irrelevant
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irrele -vant
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Requiescate in pace
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R.I.P
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Panacea
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A cure all
from greek goddess panakeia |
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Job's COmforters
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One who is sad while offering comfort
Came from the bible |
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Often
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ofen
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Ad Infinitum
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To INtinity
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Draconian
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rule being of great importance
comes from draco who's small offenses lead to great punishment |
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A Sisyphean Task
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endless or unavailing
LAbors of sisyphus |
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Prerogative
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pre - rog -uh -tiv
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IN absentia
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IN abscense
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protean
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readily assuming different forms
comes from proteus |
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Handwriting on the wall
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foreshadowing
Comes from the bible |
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Taoism
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Daoism
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E Pluribus Unum
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Out of many, one
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laurels
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to honor with distinct marks
laurel tree |
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Gotterdammerung
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Destruction of all things by the gods
GERMANS |
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Goethe
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Gur-tuh
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Ad Nauseam
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To a sickening degree
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Nemesis
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Rival
goddess of vengeance |
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Catch 22
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a situation where one is trapped by contradictory rules
from the book catch 22 |
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cavalry
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kav-uhl-ree
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incipit
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beginning of a manuscript
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mentor
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a guide
comes from the character mentor in the odyssey |
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Apple of Discord
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A discord it was the apple inscribed fairest of them all
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Zoology
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zoh-oh-lo-gy
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Ex Libris
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from the library of
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Haggard
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having gaunt wasted,exhausted appearance
wild female hawk |
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Oedipus Complex
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Kid wants parent of opposite sex....
Oediphus ya... |
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Extraordinary
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extra-ordinary
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Alter Ego
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Second Self
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Iconoclast
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breaker destroyer of images
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Vanity Fair
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any place in the world that is a fashinable society
Book by william Makepeace |
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Comparable
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com-per-a-ble
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Incognito
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Unknown
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Blarney
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Flattering Talk
Comes from the blarney stone which alowed someone to speak with much skill |
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Crossing the Rubicon
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a point of no return
THe rubicon river |
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FOrte
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FOrt
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Tabula Rasa
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Blank Slate
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Blackball
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vote against/reject
gentlemans club |
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Whited Sepulchre
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inwardly evil but owardly caring and virtuous
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Forbade
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fer-bad
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Tempus Fugit
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Time FLies
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Berserk
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Aggressive
Nordic Berserkers |
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Phoenix From the Ashes
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To rise again
mythical bird the phoenix when it dies rises again |
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Terra Firma
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dry land
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Crestfallen
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dejected,dispirited
from the chicken when its sad its crest falls |
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sword of damocles
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impending doom
Sword above damacles chair |
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Preferable
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pref-uhr-a-bl
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Ambiguity
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doubtfulness of intention
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Id Est
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that is
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juggernaut
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an indestructable force
JAGGANATH |
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In the Arms of MOrpheus
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IN a dream
Morpheus god of dreams |
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Vehicle
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vee-i-kul
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Asyndeton
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Omission of conjuctions to add meaning
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Dramatis personae
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characters in a play
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sanguine
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cheerful
blood-red cltoh sang-blood |
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mercurial
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changeable volatile
pertaining to mercury |
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larynx
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lar-inx
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Archetype/Archetypal Quest
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Original Pattern or model
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Corpus Delecti
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the way the crime was proven to have happened
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Scuttlebutt
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Gossip
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Sulk like achilles in his tent
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withdraw from action (like achilles did after)
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cerebral
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Serr-er-brel/ser-EE-brel
means to do with the brain |
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syntax
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syntax refers to the way words are arranged within sentences. (word order, sentence length, sentence focus, and punctuation)
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