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19 Cards in this Set
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Miasma |
A highly unpleasant or unhealthy smell or vapor |
Smell |
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mnemonic |
A device such as a pattern of letters, ideas, or associations that assists in remembering something |
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capacious |
Having a lot of space inside |
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deleterious |
Causing harm or damage |
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pyrrhic |
(Of a victory) won at too great a cost to have been worthw |
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Iconoclast |
a person who attacks or criticizes cherished beliefs |
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outré |
unusual and typically rather shocking, weird |
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incipient |
beginning to develop |
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philistine |
A person who is hostile or indifferent to culture and the arts. |
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adumbrate |
To give a sketchy outline of. To prefigure indistinctly; foreshadow. |
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adumbrate |
To give a sketchy outline of. To prefigure indistinctly; foreshadow. |
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Verisimilitude |
the appearance of being real or true |
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adumbrate |
To give a sketchy outline of. To prefigure indistinctly; foreshadow. |
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Verisimilitude |
the appearance of being real or true |
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opprobrium |
Harsh criticism or censure |
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Sophistry |
the use of clever or false arguments, especially with the intention of deceiving |
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febrile |
having or showing the symptoms of a fever |
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denouement |
the final act of play/book/movie in which the strands of the plot are pulled together and explained or resolved |
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tendentiously |
expressing or intending a particular cause or point of view, especially a controversial one. |
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