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23 Cards in this Set
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gauche
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Lacking social polish; tactless
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feckless
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Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
Careless and irresponsible. |
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fatuous
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foolish
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homogenous
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the same
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incognito
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in disguise
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inculcate
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To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition
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jejune
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Not interesting; dull
Lacking maturity |
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lexicon
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vocabulary
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lugubrious
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gloomy, mornful
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loquacious
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talkative
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obsequious
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kissing up; fawning
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omnipotent
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Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force
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paradigm
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A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality for the community that shares them, especially in an intellectual discipline
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quotidian
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Everyday; commonplace
Recurring daily. |
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pecuniary
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Of or relating to money
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precipitous
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Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt
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dignity
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The quality or state of being worthy of esteem or respect
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compassion
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kindness
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oxymoron
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rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined
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aside
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A piece of dialogue intended for the audience and supposedly not heard by the other actors on stage
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dramatic irony
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The dramatic effect achieved by leading an audience to understand an incongruity between a situation and the accompanying speeches, while the characters in the play remain unaware of the incongruity
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subtext
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The underlying personality of a dramatic character as implied or indicated by a script or text and interpreted by an actor in performance
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empathy
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understanding
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