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21 Cards in this Set
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Appease
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-verb; to sooth, calm someone’s fears and angers,
-ex. mom is stressed because you didn’t clean your room, then you go and clean it |
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Arrogance
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-noun; self importance, egotist, overbearing pride,
-ex. oddysseus, lets out arrogance, he gets in trouble from the cyclops |
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Benign
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-adj; harmless, gentle, kind dispositon (opposite menign)
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Capricious
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-adj; unpredictable, changes a lot,
-ex. gods are capricious at times |
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Contentious
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-adj; likely to cause an argument, starts arguments, hard to get along with, picking fights,
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Guileful
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-adj; sly or cunning intelligence, plotting things, mysterious
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Infamous
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-adj; deserved public disgrace, known for bad things,
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Insidious
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-adj; a sly tricky trap, doing harm to someone in a subtle matter, mysterious, deceitful,
-mouse and a mouse trap |
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Insolence
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-noun; insulting behavior, rude, sassy, disrespect for authority
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Invoke
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-verb; to call on a Muse, spirits, calls it forth, drawing out something that is alive
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Libation
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-noun; liquid offerings, like sacrificing,
-best of your wine sacrificed to the gods if you have a good year, |
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Lineage
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- noun; line of descent from a patriarch, line to your ancestors,
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Muse
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- daughters of Zeus, 9 goddess have a field of human study, usually an art or a science,
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Plunder
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-verb; to rob, to take by force in war, Odysseus of Cicones,
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Prodigious
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-adj; very great, extraordinary, wonderful, Cyclops has prodigious strength
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Profusion
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-noun; a great abundance or a display, high number of things,
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Prudent
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adj; wise, well judged,
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Remorse
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-noun; guilt for doing a wrong doing, to someone else, regret,
-Odysseus and the Cyclops, yelling out his name |
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Restitution
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noun; used with making
-give something for compensation for loss, reparations of war, |
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Supplication
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-noun; a prayer, very good request, petitions,
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Swaggering
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-adj; pertaining to a boasting, and bragging by the walking;
-suitors of Penelope, disrespectful, arrogant |
