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peripatetic
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itinerant, wandering, meandering, walking about. (Aristotelian)
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sarcophagus
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stone coffin
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Carpathian Mountains
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mountain range in central and eastern europe, located in central and eastern, mostly in Romania.
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itinerant
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traveling from place to place, especially covering a circuit
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migrant
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A: a person who moves regularly in order to find work, especially in harvesting crops. B: an animal that shifts from one habitat to another.
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Aristotle
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Greek philosopher (384 BC - 322 BC), student of Plato, teacher of Alexander the Great.
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teleology
\ˌte-lē-ˈä-lə-jē, ˌtē-\ |
Greek philosophical study of design and purpose holding form following function - a person has eyes because he needs sight (contrasting metaphysical naturalism).
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metaphysical naturlaism
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function following form - a person has sight because he has eyes (contrasting teleology)
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Plato
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Greek philosopher (427 BC - 347 BC), student of Socrates, teacher of Aristotle.
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pedagogy
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the art of science of being a teacher
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Socrates
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Greek philosopher (469 BC - 399 BC), teacher of Plato.
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Pericles
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Greek (495 - 429 BC), general during the Golden Age in Athens (between the Persian and Peloponnesian Wars).
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Persian wars
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(499 - 448 BC) Persian invasions of the Greek mainland which were repelled by the allied Greek city-states.
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Peloponnesian War
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431 - 404 BC. Fought by democratic Athens and its allies against the Peloponnesian League led by oligarchic Sparta, who became the leading Greek city-state.
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democratic
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Greek - popular government
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oligarchy
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Greek - rule by the elite few
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hegemony
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domination, leadership
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The Rape of the Lock
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heroic narritave poem by Alexander Pope, 1712, mocking classical epics, parody of Homer's Iliad, tempest in a teapot of vanity couched within elaborate formal verbal structure of an epic poem, during a period when women were supposed to be decorative rather than rational, satirises a true-life petty squabble.
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satire
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trenchant wit, irony, or sarcasm exposing and discrediting human vice and folly. frequently a literary work.
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trenchant
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A: keen, sharp
B: caustic, vigorously effective and articulate C: sharply perceptive, penetrating |
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caustic
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A: marked by incisive sarcasm
B: corrosive |
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incisive
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impressively direct and decisive (as in manner and presentation)
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catalyze
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bring about, inspire, to alter as if by a chemical reaction
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simile
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comparing two unlike things using 'like' or 'as' (lips like cherries)
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metaphor
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figurative speech suggesting likeness literally without using 'like' or 'as' (drowning in money)
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Thurn and Taxis
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German family in 16th century: key player in postal services, owner of breweries, builders of castles.
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eschew
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shun, to avoid habitually especially on moral or practical grounds
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postmodern literature
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often a parody of the quest for meaning in a chaotic world
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pastiche
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the combination of multiple cultural elements including subjects and genres not previously deemed fit for literature
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modernist literary tradition
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searches for meaning in a chaotic world
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Manifest Destiny
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literally: obvious certainty.
the historical belief from the 1840s that the United States is destined and divinely ordained by God to expand across the North American continent |
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turgid
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being in a state of distension: swollen, tumid.
excessively embellished in style or language: bobmastic, pompous. |
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tumid
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swollen, enlarged
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bobmastic
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pompous, overblown
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taciturn
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silent, temperamentally disinclined to talk
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succor
ˈsə-kər |
relief, aid, help
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lassitude
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lethargy
weariness or debility: fatigue listlessness: languor |
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languor
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lethargy
weakness or weariness of body or mind listless indolence or inertia |
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indolence
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inclination to laziness
sloth |
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inertia
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a property of matter
remains at rest or in uniform motion until acted upon by external force |
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inertness
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lacking the power to move;
deficient in active properties such as an anticipated chemical or biological action |
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Mediterranean Sea
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off Atlantic bordered by (starting at 10:00)
Spain, France, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Middle East, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco |
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Anatolia
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region bordering the northeastern Mediterranean (Turkey)
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the Levant
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region bordering the eastern Mediterranean
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Adriatic Sea
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eastern border: Italian peninsula
western border: Balkan peninsula southern border: Ionian Sea |
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Ionian Sea
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bordered by (starting at 10:00)
Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy, Adriatic Sea, Greece, Mediterranean Sea |
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Agean Sea
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between Greece (west and north), Turkey (east), Mediterranean Sea (south)
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Diocletian
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Roman Emperor from 284-305
bureaucratic and military growth autocrat, court ceremonial architecture imperial, standardized, equitable, high taxes |
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quay
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a wharf or bay where ships are loaded;
structural landing place built parallel to the bank of a waterway |
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wharf
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a landing place or pier;
commonly a fixed platform on pilings with storage capabilities |
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piling or pile
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long slender column driven into the ground to carry a vertical load
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detente
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the relaxation of strained relations
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Rembrandt
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Dutch painter/etcher 1606-1669
iconography empathy for the human condition |
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sacrosanct
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most sacred or holy: inviolable
immune from criticism or violation |
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inviolable
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secure from violation or profanation, assault or trespass: unassailable
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Gothic architecture
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high and late medieval period;
between Romanesue and Renaissance periods; stylistic insult to late Renaissance; pointed arch, ribbed vault, flying buttress; cathedrals, castles, halls, universities |
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Gothic architecture
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high and late medieval period;
between Romanesue and Renaissance periods; stylistic insult to late Renaissance; pointed arch, ribbed vault, flying buttress; cathedrals, castles, halls, universities |
