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25 Cards in this Set
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Armageddon |
The site or time of a final and conclusive battle between the forces of good and evil (Rev 16:14-16) |
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Augur |
An official diviner of Ancient Rome: one held to foretell events by omens |
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Bowdlerize |
To expurgate (as a book) by omitting or modifying parts considered vulgar |
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Chauvism |
Excessive or blind patriotism-compare Jingoism |
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Chimerical |
Exhausting only as the product of unchecked imagination: fantastically visionary or improbable |
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Diminutive |
Indicating small size and sometime the state or quality of being familiarly known, lovable or contemptible- used as affixes |
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Draconian |
Of, relating to or characteristic of. The severe code of laws held to have been framed by him. CRUEL also SEVERE. |
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Epicureanism |
A philosophy identifying emotional calm as the highest good and whose followers hold intellectual pleasures as superior to transient sensualism |
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Hedonism |
The doctrine that pleasure or happiness is the sole or chief good in life |
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Indiscretion |
An act of variance with the accepted morality of society |
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inextricable |
Forming a maze or tangle from which it is impossible to get free |
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Jingoism |
Extreme chauvinism or nationalism marked esp: by a belligerent foreign policy |
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Machiavellian |
Of related to or characteristics of) the new that politics is amoral and that any means however unscrupulous, can justifiably be used in achieving ( and holding) political power |
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Martinet |
A strict disciplinarian |
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Masochism |
A sexual perversion characterized by pleasure in being subjected to pain or humiliation esp: by a love object |
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Maudlin |
Drunk enough to be emotionally silly; weakly and effusively sentimental |
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Paradox |
A tenet contrary to received opinion; a statement that is seemingly contradictory or opposed to common sense and yet is perhaps true |
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Philippic |
A discourse or declaration full of bitter condemnation: TIRADE |
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Pyrrhic victory |
Achieved at excessive cost; also costly to the point of negating or outweighing expected benefits < a great but ~ of ingenuity> |
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Sardonic |
Disdainfully or skeptically humorous: derisively mocking |
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Serendipity |
The faculty of phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable thing not sought for; also an instance of this |
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Solecism |
An ungrammatical combination of words in a sentence; also a minor blunder in speech |
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Visionary |
Incapable of being realized or achieved: UTOPIAN: one whose ideas or projects are impractical: DREAMER |
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Tenets |
A principle belief or doctrine generally held to be true; esp: one held in common by members of an organization, movement of profession |
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Utopian |
Proposing or advocating impractically ideal social and political schemes: impossibly ideal: VISIONARY |
