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43 Cards in this Set
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Penury |
Extreme poverty |
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Purloin |
To steal |
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Concise |
Brief but comprehensive |
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Enamor |
To be filled with a feeling of love for |
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Arbiter |
One who settles a dispute or has absolute authority |
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Vituperate |
To insult in strong violent language |
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Meritorious |
Deserving reward or praise |
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Repudiate |
Refuse to accept or be associated with |
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Effrontery |
Rude behavior |
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Fecund |
Producing or capable of producing an abundance of offspring or new growth; fertile |
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Grandiloquence |
Proud and extravagant to the point of being pompous |
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Bard |
A poet, traditionally one reciting epics and associated with a particular oral tradition |
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Malleable |
Able to be molded or to change the shape of easily |
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Ubiquitous |
Present, appearing, or found everywhere |
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Zephyr |
A gentle breeze |
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Abate |
(Of something perceived as negative) to become less intense or widespread |
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Pernicious |
Having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way |
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Onus |
Used to refer to something that is one's duty or responsibility |
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Prosaic |
Lacking poetic beauty |
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Accommodate |
To provide with lodging |
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Beginning |
The point in time that something starts or first takes place |
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Indispensable |
Absolutely necessary |
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Judgment |
The ability to come to sensible conclusion |
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Palatial |
Resembling a palace in being spacious and splendid |
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Fresco |
Watercolor painting done on wet plaster |
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Rivulet |
A very small stream |
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Bifurcation |
The division of something into two parts |
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Supple |
Easily bent |
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Occurrence |
An incident or event |
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Millennium |
A period of a thousand (1000) years |
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Allusion |
Calling something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; indirect reference |
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Personification |
The attribution of human characteristics to nonhuman things |
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Iambic Pantameter |
A line of verse of five metrical feet, each consisting of one unstressed/short syllable followed by one stressed/long syllable |
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Metaphor |
A word or phrase is applied to an object to which is not literally applicable |
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Simile |
Comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, usually using "like" or "as a" |
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MLA~ typed or handwritten? |
Typed |
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MLA~ Line spacing? |
Double spaced |
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MLA~ Font? |
12 pt., italics and regular contrast, easy to read |
Size? Italics vs. regular? Legibility? |
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MLA~ When to use italics? |
Titles and the occasional emphasis |
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MLA~ Upper left hand corner... |
Name, Instructor's name, course, and date |
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MLA~ Date format? |
Day Month Year |
1 September 2001 |
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Who or whom? Can replace "he" or "she" |
Who |
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Who or whom? can replace "him" or "her" |
Whom |
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