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20 Cards in this Set
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ad lib
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to improvise
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bombast
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pompous wordy speech
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embellish
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make beautiful by ornamenting
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farce
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an absurdly ridiculous situation
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florid
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describing flowery speech
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hackneyed
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overused saying
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impromtu
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unplanned
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lampoon
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broad saying; uasually choping someone
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medley
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mixture of songs
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mural
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large panting on the wall
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democratic
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ensuring that akk people have the same rights
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parody
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picture that makes fun of someone/something
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plagiarism
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take others people's writing and say its your own
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laissez fair
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idea that government should play as small a role as possible in econmic affairs
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poignant
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emotionally moving
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prosaic
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unimaginative
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1. sonorous
2.terse |
1. having or producing sound
2.brief and to the point |
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free market
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goods and sevices are exchange with little reulation
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marbury v. madison
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an 1803 court case in which the supreme court ruled that it had the power tti decide wjether laws passed by congress were constitutional.9
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judicial review
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power of the supreme court to decide whether acts of a president or laws passed by congress were constitutioanl
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