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24 Cards in this Set
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Mercurial
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Tending to have sudden and unpredictable changes in mood or behavior; volatile or erratic
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Metacognitive
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Awareness of, or thinking about, one's own thinking processes or tendencies
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Misanthrope
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One who hates or mistrusts humankind
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Misogyny
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Hatred or mistrust of women
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Mutability
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The tendency of things to be subject to or capable of change; inconstancy
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Nihilism
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An extreme form of skepticism which denies our ability to know anything certain about the world; also, the lack of belief in any system of morals or values, often including a lack of belief in God
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Nostalgia
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Longing or sorrow for that which is irrecoverably past; a wistful desire to return to the happiness of a former place or time
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Oedipal
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Behavior consistent with the idea that boys desire to copulate with their mothers and are thus in competition with, and feel enmity towards, their fathers
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Overdetermined
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Having more than one determining psychological factor or explanation; giving an outlet for more than one psychological wish or need
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Pluripotential
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Having multiple possibilities; not fixed or determined
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Polysemous/Multivalent
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Having multiple/various meanings; ambiguous
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Prelapsarian
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Like the time before the fall of Adam and Eve, or like any innocent, carefree period
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Edenic
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Descriptive of the Garden of Eden, especially of its happiness or innocence or harmony
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Priggish
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Displaying and/or demanding of others a precise adherence to the rules of propriety or custom
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Puritanical
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Very strict in moral or religious matters; unforgivingly stern, rigorous and judgemental
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Protean
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Extremely variable or versatile; able to take on different forms or play different roles with ease
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Quixotic
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Caught up in the romance of noble deeds and the pursuit of unreachable goals; idealistic without regard to practicality
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Ramify
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To develop multiple, complicating consequences or outgrowths; to divide into multiple pathways or branches
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Resonance
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Emotional richness or significance, especially in evoking an association or strong feeling
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Rorschach
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The name for the inkblot test used by psychologists
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Sisyphean
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Referring to a task or job demanding endless labor and being impossible to complete
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Solipsism
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Egotistic self-absorption; valuing or considering only one's own feelings
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Underdetermined
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Having more than one possible explanation, such that no one is sufficient to explain it
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Vituperative
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Using highly abusive or insulting criticism; scathing or excoriating
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