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51 Cards in this Set
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a kind of excommunication; decree; formal order forbidden something
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Interdiction
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hatred of woman
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misogyny
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to bring or restore peace
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pacifist
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one who goes before and make known the approach of another; a herald; anything that foreshadow a future event
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harbinger
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insane, emotionly imbalanced or instable, especially from some shocking or traumatic event
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deranged
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to speak impiously or irreverently of god or sacred things
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blasphemous
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a written message or letter from an official source
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missives
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any of a class or profesional teach in ancient Greee who gave instuction in various fields; concerned hemselves and their students with ingenuity and specious effectiveness rather than soundness of argument. false wisdom
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sophist
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the act of appointing a person or persons to represent or act foor another ot others. person or body or persons appointed
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deputation
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a written message or letter from an official source
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missive
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perdiction; warning; a feeling that someething bad is going to happen
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foreboding
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a feeling or condition of hostility; hatred; ill will; animosity; antagonism
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emnity
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an original a modal or pattern after which a thing is made; Jungarian idea - an unconscious ideas, pattern, thought or image inherited from the ancestor of the race
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archetype
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of or pertaining to church or to the clergy; churchly, clerical, not secular: not lay people of subject matter
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ecclesiastical
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derived from the name of the father or ancestor, especially by addition of a suffix; prefix indication of descent
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patronymic
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ridiculing; mocking to laugh at in contempt
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derisive
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strong expresion of disapproval
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censure
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not meant to be taken seriously or literally; amusing, humurous; lacking serious intent; nonessential
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facetious
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ruling as one who has absoolute, unlimited power; an oppressive or tyrannical leader
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dispotic
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a speech or writing praise of a person or thing, especially in honor of the recently dead
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eulogy
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intended to instruct; having a moral; teacherlike. when applied to someone other than a teacher, can have a negative connotations
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didactic
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an utterance, often ambiguous or obscure, given by priest or priestess at a shrine as the response of a god to an inquiry for a prophecy. any person or thing which serves as an agent of divine communications
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oracles
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of or pertaining to time; present or worldly matters, secular as opposed to ecclesiastical
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temporal
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one of the people of the community professing a polytheistic religionas the ancient Romans and Greeks; a person who is not a Christian, Muslim, or Jew
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pagan
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a kind of excommunication; decree; formal order forbidden something
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interdiction
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hatred of women
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misogynistic
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gross indulgence in lewdness (indecent, lusttful, obscene) behavior
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lechery
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frank, outspoken, open, and sincere; without reservation; honest, impartial
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candid
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talking or disposed to talk much or freely; chattering
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loquacious
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ruling as one who has absolute, unlimited power; an oppressive or tyrannical leader
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despotic
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to bring or restore peace
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pacific
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to enlarge or increase
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augere
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power or to be able
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possent
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to speak out clearly
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loqui
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to laugh or to mock
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ridere
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right or question
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rograre
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to wash
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lave
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birth
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nasci
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to rule
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archy
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tongue, language
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glossa
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rough pebble
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scrup
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range of skills
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repertory
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strong stance for or agaist something
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polarize (polar - war)
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to explain
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predicates (dic - say or tell)
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inheritance from one's father
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patrimony (patr - father)
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not capable of being talked into somthing
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inexorable (ora- to pray or plead)
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waning to do bad to others
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malicious (mal - bad)
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not assigning or charging blame
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imputes (put - to think or assign)
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having power
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puissant
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not fair, causing anger
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incensed (cen - candid)
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time
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temporize
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