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20 Cards in this Set
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Janus-faced
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two-faced; hypocritical;
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milquetoast
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(came from comic) weak, ineffectual or bland person
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jabberwock
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dragon (fake word)
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Shangri-la
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fictional perfect place (from a book)
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Lothario
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a man whose chief interest is seducing women (from a play)
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lethargy
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being lazy, sluggish, or indifferent
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bacchanalia
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Roman festival of Bacchus celebrated with dancing, song, and revelry, orgy
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pyrrhic victory
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a victory with devastating cost to the victor.
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chauvinism
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blind patriotism; superiority toward members of the opposite sex
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Babbitt
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who conforms unthinkingly to prevailing middle-class standards
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malaprop
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the substitution of a word for a word with a similar sound
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pandemonium
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hell; uproar
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spoonerism
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sounds of two or more words (tons of soil for sons of toil)
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philistine
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a person who is guided by materialism; one uninformed in a special area of knowledge
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sadistic
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delight in cruelty
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panglossian
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excessively optimistic
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martinet
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strict disciplinarian
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cross the Rubicon
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point of no return
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Machiavellian
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braggadocio
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