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28 Cards in this Set
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Preconception
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a conception or opinion formed beforehand.
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Parody
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a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing
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Paradox
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A paradox is an apparently true statement or group of statements that leads to a contradiction or a situation which defies intuition.
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Ubiquitous
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existing or being everywhere, esp. at the same time; omnipresent
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Red Herring
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Ment to distract
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Ad Homonym
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Personal Attack
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Non sequitur
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an inference or a conclusion that does not follow from the premises.
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Innocuous
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not harmful or injurious
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Impertinent
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intrusive or presumptuous, as persons or their actions, not pertinent or relevant; irrelevant
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Anarchist
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a person who seeks to overturn by violence all constituted forms and institutions of society and government, with no purpose of establishing any other system of order in the place of that destroyed.
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Recluse
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a person who lives in seclusion or apart from society, often for religious meditation.
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Dissident
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disagreeing or dissenting, as in opinion or attitude
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Allegorical
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a representation of an abstract or spiritual meaning through concrete or material forms; figurative treatment of one subject under the guise of another.
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Narrative
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a story or account of events, experiences, or the like, whether true or fictitious
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Reticence
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The state or quality of being reluctant; unwillingness
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Fables
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a short tale to teach a moral lesson, often with animals or inanimate objects as characters
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Onerous
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burdensome, oppressive, or troublesome; causing hardship
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Ineffable
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incapable of being expressed or described in words
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Piety
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reverence for God or devout fulfillment of religious obligations
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Enervating
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to deprive of force or strength; destroy the vigor of; weaken.
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Torpid
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slow; dull; apathetic; lethargic
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Begrimed
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to make grimy
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Clandestine
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characterized by, done in, or executed with secrecy or concealment
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Surreptitious
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obtained, done, made, etc., by stealth; secret or unauthorized; clandestine
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Mixed Metaphor
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the use in the same expression of two or more metaphors that are incongruous or illogical when combined, as in “The president will put the ship of state on its feet.”
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Hackneyed
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made commonplace or trite; stale
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Reiteration
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to say or do again or repeatedly
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Fallibility
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liable to be erroneous or false; not accurate
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