History Flash Cards (Quiz 2)

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aesthetic

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pertaining to a sense of the beautiful or to the science of aesthetics.

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Arable

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capable of producing crops; suitable for farming; suited to the plow and for tillage

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Buoyant

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tending to float in a fluid.

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Charnel house –

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a house or place in which the bodies or bones of the dead are deposited.

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Auspicious –

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promising success; propitious; opportune; favorable: an auspicious occasion.

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Homage –

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respect or reverence paid or rendered

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Enclave

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- a country, or esp., an outlying portion of a country, entirely or mostly surrounded by the territory of another country.

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Filial

Back 8

of, pertaining to, or befitting a son or daughter:

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indentured

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a deed or agreement executed in two or more copies with edges correspondingly indented as a means of identification.

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Inversion

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the act of inverting

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Autonomy

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independence or freedom, as of the will or one's actions:

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Leitmotif

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a motif or theme associated throughout a music drama with a particular person, situation, or idea.

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Martial

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inclined or disposed to war; warlike

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Capricious –

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subject to, led by, or indicative of caprice or whim; erratic

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Monoculture

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the use of land for growing only one type of crop.

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Motif

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a recurring subject, theme, idea, etc., esp. in a literary, artistic, or musical work.

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Indigenous

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originating in and characteristic of a particular region or country; native (often fol. by to)

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Clandestine

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characterized by, done in, or executed with secrecy or concealment, esp. for purposes of subversion or deception; private or surreptitious:

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Spurious

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not genuine, authentic, or true; not from the claimed, pretended, or proper source; counterfeit.

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Teleology

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the belief that purpose and design are a part of or are apparent in nature.

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Typhus

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an acute, infectious disease caused by several species of Rickettsia, transmitted by lice and fleas, and characterized by acute prostration, headache, and a peculiar eruption of reddish spots on the body.