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30 Cards in this Set
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Amenities
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agreeable feature
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Carnal
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not spiritual
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Chasten
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to punish
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Cower
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to crouch in fear
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Denouement
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final resolution to the intracies of plot
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Depraved
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corrupt
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Dirge
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sad song expressing mornful tune
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Dissipated
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indulging in or characterized by excessive devotion to pleasure
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Dolorous
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full of or expressing pain
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Fickle
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casually changeable
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Heinous
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hateful
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Ignominious
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Humiliating
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Libertine
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A free thinker
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Sage
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Profoundly wise person
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Undaunted
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not discouraged
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Apostrophe
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literature address to nonhumans as if it could reply
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Unctuous
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extremely moralistic
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Simile
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a comparison using like or as
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Metaphor
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a comparison w/o using like or as
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Synecdoche
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a figure of speech that uses part of something to represent the whole
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Metonymy
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a figure of speech that uses part of something to represent a larger concept ot idea
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Splenetic
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irritable
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Rhetoric
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the science of effective language use
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Choleric
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easily angered
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Sycophant
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self-seeking flatter
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Phlegmatic
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not easily excited
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Melancholy
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gloomy
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Sanguine
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cheerful
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Strumpet
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prostitute
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Redundant
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unnecessarily repetitive
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