Enlightenment Flash Cards

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another word for aphorism and the meaning

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probverb- a short saying or pointed statement

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describe the enlightenment

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society should ensure social justice and happiness in the world, thinkers believed people and gov'ts could solve every social, political, and ecomomic problem

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apprentice

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person under legal agreement to work a specified length of time for a master craftsman in return for instruction and, formerly, surpport

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ingenious

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have great mental ability

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admonish

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caution against specific faults

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Thomas Jefferson

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drafted the "common sense"
drafted and wrote the DOI

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consultation

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meeting to discuss, decide, or plan something

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evade

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avoid or escape form by deceit or cleverness

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venture

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undertake the risk

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tyranny

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arbitrary or unrestrained exercise of power, despotic abuse of authority

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aphorism

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a short saying or proverb, a tense saying embodying a general truth, or astute observation

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pseudonym

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a fictitions name used be an author to concel his or her identity, pen name

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enlightenment

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the act of enlightening, the state of beling enlightened

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insertion

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the act of inseting, something inserted

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apprentice 2

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a person who works for another in order to learn a trade

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zeitgeist

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the spirit of the time, general tend of thought or feeling characteristic of a particular period of time

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dogma

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a system of principle or tenets, as of a church

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stanza

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an arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually 4 or more, sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scgeme forming a division of a poem

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skeptical

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inclined to skepticism, haveing doubt