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15 Cards in this Set
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Copious |
Abundent in supply or quantity |
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Meiosis |
Understatement |
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Prosody |
The patterns of rhythm and sound used in poetry |
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Somnolent |
Sleepy or drowsy |
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Tepid |
Lukewarm or showing little enthusiasm |
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Absurd |
Unreasonable illogical or inappropriate |
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Cognition |
Mental action or process of acquiring and understanding |
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Cosmology |
The science of the origin and development of the universe |
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Existential |
Of or relating to existence |
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Propensity |
An inclination or natural tendency to behave in a particular way |
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Diadem |
Jeweled crown |
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Highbrow |
Person who cares or claims to care a great deal about knowledge and culture |
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Tacit |
Implied or understood without being openly expressed |
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Metonymy |
Figure of speech in which one thing is represented by another |
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Prolepsis |
the representation of a thing as existing before it actually does or did so |
