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35 Cards in this Set
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dia
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across
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dialectic
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soph
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wisdom
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sophist
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one who
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sophist
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ex
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out
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erudite
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dis
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away
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denouement
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nod
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knot
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denouement
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cup
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desire
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concupiscene
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lent
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full of
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esculent
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ed
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eat
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esculent
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ven
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come
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circumvent
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ten
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hold
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pertinacious
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inter
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between
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interlocutor
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locu
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talk
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interlocutor
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apo
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away
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aphorism
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auto
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self
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autodidact
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res
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thing
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reify
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fy
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make
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reify
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medi
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middle
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in medias res
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circum
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around
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circumvent
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culp
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blame
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exculpate
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dialectic
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logical argument
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Hegel's famous dialectic involved thesis, antithesis, and synthesis
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temerarious
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reckless
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The temerarious Phaeton insisted on driving the sun chariot
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sophist
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a specious reasoner
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Socrates exposed the specious arguments of the Sophists
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erudite
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scholarly
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The erudite Prospero loved to peruse his scholarly texts
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denouement
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unraveling of plot
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In the sanguinary denouement, Oedipus blinds himself
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concupiscence
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intense desire or lust
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Ovid told the concupiscent myths of the Romans
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esculent
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edible
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Walt Whitman said he incorporated quadrupeds, birds, and esculent roots
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pertinacious
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holding stubbornly
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The pertinacious Achilles would not listen to reason
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interlocutor
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person in conversation
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In time, Friday became an able interlocutor
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aphorism
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a concise wisdom
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He mistook his tedious cliches for delightful aphorisms
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autodidact
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self-taught person
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Mary Shelley's monster was a pitiful, gruesome autodidact
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reify
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treat as real
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To believe in the myth is to reify the metaphor, and to miss the point
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in medias res
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in the middle of things
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Bronte's novel Wuthering Heights begins in medias res
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circumvent
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get around
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As Berryman's "Ball Poem" shows, no one can circumvent loss
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exculpate
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free from blame
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He was exculpated when the real murderer confessed
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