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34 Cards in this Set
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Loathsome
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Making one feel sick;hateful
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Pestilential
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Infectious or contagious disease
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Copious
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More than enough;plentiful
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Improvident
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Lacking foresight; not looking ahead
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Avarice
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too great a desire for money; greed
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Pacify
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Soothing a person
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Human Nature
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Sum of qualities and traits shared by all humans
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Absurdity
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Ridiculously unreasonable
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Vernacular
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Natives speech, language, or dialect of a place
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Shrewdness
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Astute or sharp in practical matters
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Literal
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Primary/strict mean of the word(s)
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Ingenuity
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quality of being cleverly inventive or resourceful
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Prejudice
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Unfavorable opinion/feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge
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Humanity
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All human beings collectively;human race;humankind
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Congenial
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Compactible, friendly, agreeable
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Benevolent
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Having or showing good will;charitable
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Stringency
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Strickness/severity
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Depravity
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Corruption, wickedness
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Consternation
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Feel great shock, confusion
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Unperverted
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Uncorrupted
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Redolent
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Suggestive, Fragrant
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Connotation
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Word that is implied or suggested
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Denotation
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A word's explicit meaning
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Dialect
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Form of language spoken by people in a particular region/group
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Exposition
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Writing/speech that explains/informs/presents information
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Irony
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Contrast between what is states and what is meant
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Local Color
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Regionalism
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Motivation
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Reason that explains character's thoughts, feelings, actions, speech
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Regionalism
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Authors that write about specific geographical areas
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Satire
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Ridicules or criticizes individuals ideas, etc.
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Sonnet
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14-line lyric poem
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Stanza
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Group of lines in a poem; considered a unit
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Theme
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Central message or insight into line revealed by literary work
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Tone
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Writer's attitude toward his/her subject, characters, or audience.
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