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39 Cards in this Set
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Achaic (adj)
archaism (n) |
characers of a earlier or primitive era
out of date |
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Archetype (n)
archetypal-(adj) archetypic-(adj) archetpical-(adj) |
an original model from which the rest are copied
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Archipelago (n)
archipelagic (adj) |
a group of many islands, cluster of islands
a group of diff nations w/in a defined area |
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Archive (n)
archival (adj) archivist (n) |
collected record of an organization of a person
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Anarchy (n)
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no form of gov.
disorder and confusion |
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Oligarchy (n)
oligarch-(n) oligarchic-(adj) |
Gov. by the few
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Demagogue (n)
demagogic-(adj) demagogy-(n) |
a leader who appeals to listners belief than reason
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Demographer (n)
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one who studies the characteristics of population, analyze data (birth, death, disease, etc)
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Endemic (adj)
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commonly found in a particular region
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Pandemic (adj)
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spread through-out
world wide |
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Gregarious (adj)
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social
perferring to be w/group of one's kind |
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Aggregation (n)
aggregate (adj) |
a large group of people/things
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Egregious (adj)
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really bad
outrageously bad |
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Icon (n)
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an image/representation/symbol
representation of a sacred person/event person greatly admired for a particular talent |
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Iconoclastic (adj)
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breaking/destroying images
attacking or overthrowing tardition or popular ideas, institution or convention. |
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Conducive (adj)
conduce-v conduciveness-n |
promoting, tending to bring about; being partly responsible for
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Induce (v)
inducible-adj; inducement-n; inducer-n |
to persuade; to influence
to cause; bring about |
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Traduce (v)
traducer-n |
to slander, tell lies/gossip about another person
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Redoubt (n)
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small fort defending an important point
place of refugee/shelter |
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Hegemony (n)
hegemonic-adj |
dominance; predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.
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Exegesis (n)
exegete-n; exegetic-adj; exegetical-adj; exegetics-n |
through explantion/interpertation of a text (scared text)
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Annunciation (n)
annunciate-v; annunciator-n |
annoucement; proclamtion
annoucement made to mary about Jesus being a god |
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renunciation (n)
renunciative-adj; renunciatory-adj; |
an action or statement in which something is given up.
rejected abandoned sacrificed |
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Polity (n)
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an organized society w/a specfic form of gov.
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Politic (adj)
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Using or marked by prudence, expedience, and shrewdness
Crafty; cunning |
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Potentate (n)
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monarch; ruler w/great power
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Puissant (adj)
puissance-n |
mighty, powerful; forceful
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Regalia (n)
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emblems and symbolys of royalty, rank, office, institution.
finery, elaborate attire. |
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Regency (n)
regent(n) |
office/period of regent; one who administers for a monarch during interregnum
style of dress, furniture, archtecturic characteristics of regency period in England. |
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Viceroy (n)
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a governor or ruler excercising authority on behalf of a soveriegn in a provine or a colony.
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Duco, Ducere, Duxi, Ductum
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to lead
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Hegaisthai
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to lead
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Polis
Politikos |
city
citizen |
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Possum
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to be ablt to
have power to |
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Rex
Regis |
king
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Arkhein
Arkhos |
to begin;to be first
ruler; 1st in rank |
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Demos
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people
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Grex, Gregis
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flock, herd, crowd
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Eikon
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likeness; image
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