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42 Cards in this Set
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synchronic |
with respect to a certain point in time
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diachronic
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with respect to development over time |
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inchoate
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not fully formed, rudimentary |
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polytropic
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versatile, taking on many types (Odysseus' epithet) |
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underlie
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to be controlled by
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reify
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to make more concrete or real
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hermeneutic
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concerned with interpretation
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exegesis
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explanation (especially of scripture)
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histrionic
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exaggerated dramatic behavior
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dialectic
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argumentative, practicing logical disputation in order to resolve conflict |
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prelapsarian
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innocent and unspoiled, characteristic of the time before the Fall of Man |
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ornery
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mean, lowly or commonplace |
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probative
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evidential, demonstrative |
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frisson
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a shudder |
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piquant
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spicy
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pall
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cloud of gloom, comes from analogy for the name of a cloth spread over a coffin |
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operationalize
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to define something in terms of the operations used to determine it
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bumptious
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annoyingly conceited
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autonomic
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unconscious
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saturnine
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gloomy
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archly
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sly or roguishness
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phlegmatic
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calm, apathetic |
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profligate
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extravagant, wasteful |
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dissolute
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lax in morals, licentious |
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pyrrhic
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achieved at excessive cost
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iridescent
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displaying a rainbow of colors that change when viewed from different angles
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lacuna
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gap, missing portion |
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prophylactic
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preventative
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putative
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presumptive, supposed |
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callipygous
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having well shaped buttocks
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dasypygal
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having hairy buttocks |
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nepenthe
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a drug you drink that makes you forget sorrow (from the Odyssey), an opiate |
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empyrean
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the highest part of heaven, heavenly |
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cudgel
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to bludgeon, a club |
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anodyne
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inoffensive, a painkiller |
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apropos
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with reference to, appropriate to a particular situation |
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elan
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ardor, enthusiasm |
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denouement
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the final part of a narrative where things are resolved
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anodyne
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deliberately inoffensive
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froider
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coolness or reserve between people
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eleemosynary
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charitable
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camarilla
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a group of confidential scheming advisors |
