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20 Cards in this Set
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Acrophobia (n.) |
Fear of heights |
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Agoraphobia (n.) |
Fear of openness |
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Alumni (n.) |
Graduates (all male or mixture of male and female) |
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Anthology (n.) |
Literary collection |
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Apotheosis (n.) |
Raising to god status |
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Condign (adj.) |
Worthy |
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Cosmology (n.) |
Study of the universe |
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Effusion (n.) |
Outpouring |
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Euphony (n.) |
Beautiful sound |
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Idiosyncrasy (n.) |
Peculiarity |
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Infraction (n.) |
Breaking |
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Invective (n.) |
Bitter denunciation = speaking badly about someone |
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Platitude (n.) |
Flat, trite remark |
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Posthumous (adj.) |
After death |
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Precursor (n.) |
Forerunner = thing that comes first |
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Refractory (adj.) |
Stubborn |
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Schism (n.) |
Division |
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Transpose (v.) |
Switch |
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Veracity (n.) |
Truthfulness |
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Verisimilitude (n.) |
Similarity to the truth |
