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27 Cards in this Set
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god in human form. In this case the term refers to the disease form
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Dissolution
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Death
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Pest ban:
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official declaration that an individual has the plague
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Castellated abbeys
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fortified structure built to use as orresemble monasteries
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Buffoons:
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Clowns
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Improvisatory
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poets who make up or improve their poems as they preform
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. Disposed
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Arranged
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Gothic:
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in the style of architecture prevalent in Western Europein the twelfth through
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Casements
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windows
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Brazier
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metal pan designed to hold charcoal or coal for light and heat
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Ebony
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black or dark colored wood
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Brazen:
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brass
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Constrained
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forced
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Hearken
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listen
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Decora:
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which is considered suitable or proper
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16. Fete: a large carefully planed party
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a large carefully planed party
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17. Piquancy
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in this case state of being charming
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18. Phantasm
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a product of fantasy
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19. Hernani:
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a drama of 1830 on which an opera known for its use ofcolor and imagination
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Sable
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of the color black
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21. Disapprobation
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disapproval
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Out Heroded Herod
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herod the great was a ruler who ordered thedeath of all boys under two years of age in Bethlehem hoping to kill
baby Jesus |
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Habiliments
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cloths
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Battlements:
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elevated platforms of earth or stone with an open
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Cerements
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strips of cloth used to wrap a dead body and prepare it for burial
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Blood bedewed:
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bedew means to moisten as with dew
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27. Dominion
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control
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