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12 Rules For Life JP Flashcards

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Ambivalent?

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Having contradictory or suspicious option about something or someone.

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Affront ?

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An action or remark that causes outrage or offence.

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Without rules we quickly become ?

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Slaves to our passions and there’s nothing freeing about that.

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What’s a medical internist ?

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Someone who applies a scientific knowledge and clinical expertise to a diagnosis.

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Enlivening ?

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Make something more entertaining, interesting or special

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Suffused ?

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Gradually spread through or over

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Starchy airs ?

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Formal talk and behaviour

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Where did Jordan Peterson work at University?

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University of Toronto

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Loquacious?

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Tending to talk a lot, talkative

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Virtuosos ?

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A person highly skilled in musical arts or another form of artistic pursuit

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Preening ?

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Congratulate or pride oneself

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Erudite ?

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Having or showing great knowledge or learning.

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Pedant ?

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Someone who is overly concerned with minor details and rules or with displaying academic knowledge

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Broaching ?

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Raise a difficult subject for discussion.

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Dialogic ?

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The use of shared conversation or shared logic to explore or explain the meaning of something.

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Prairie?

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Land in or predominantly in grass

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Archetypes ?

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Universal inborn models of people, behaviours or personalities that play a role in influencing human behaviour.

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Socialist?

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Economic and political system by where the workers own the general means of production. Farms, factories tools and raw materials.

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Communism ?

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Is based on the goal of eliminating socioeconomic classes struggles by creating a classless society in which everyone shares the rewards of labour and the state owns all the property and wealth.

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Five communist countries ?

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China, Laos, Vietnam, North Korea, Cuba

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What’s USSR stand for ?

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Union of Soviets socialist Republics

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Totalitarian?

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Relating to a system of government that is centralised and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state.

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Universality ?

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The quality of involving or being shared by all people or things in the world or in a particular group.

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Purport ?

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The meaning or sense of something

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Hubris ?

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Excessive pride or self confidence.

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Retool ?

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Alter the form or character of: reshape

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Supplanted ?

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Superseded or replaced

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Proletariat?

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Working class people regarded collectively often used in reference to Marxism.

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Gulag ?

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A System of Soviet Union labour camps, detention, transit and prison camps

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Liberal ?

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Promotes individual rights and civil liberties, democracy and free enterprise. Willing to respect other peoples options and behaviours if different from their own.

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Ardent ?

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Very enthusiastic or passionate

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Evangelising ?

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Convert or seek to convert someone to Christianity

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Psychoanalytically

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Asking someone to talk about their past experiences and feelings to try and explain their present problems.

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Neuroses ?

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A relatively mild mental illness with symptoms of stress anxiety and obsessive behaviour.

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Unarticulated ?

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Not mentioned or coherently expressed.

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Morality ?

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Principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong, good behaviour and bad.

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Happenstance ?

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Coincidence

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Basic meaning of Post Modernism?

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A general suspicion of reason. An intellectual stance against ideologies and grand narratives.

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Democracy ?

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A form of government in which people choose leaders by voting. Compared to a monarchy where the leaders are born into power.

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Social equality?

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State of affairs in which all people within the society have equal rights, liberties and status. Equal access to certain public goods and social services.

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Egalitarianism?

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The doctrine that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities.

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Doctrine ?

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A belief or set of beliefs held and taught by the church, political party or other group.

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Socialism ?

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A way to organise a society. Deals mostly with the economy or the part of society that creates wealth. The state controls the resources and the means for creating these resources. Supposed to give way for equality between its citizens.

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What’s Capitalism?

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It’s an economic system by which people privately own their goods and services as well as the means of production. This means that you can start a company and sell things to make yourself a profit. It’s focused on the individual and their ability to control their own financial prosperity.

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Right wing politics ?

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Usually a section of a political party or system that advocates free enterprise and private ownership and typically supports socially traditional ideas.

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Moral relativism?

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Theory that a moral claim is correct if the individuals or her culture believe it to be right. Therefore two people with differing moral opinions of the same thing can both be right, or Atleast neither can be wrong.

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Anachronistically?

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The representation of someone or something existing in other than chronological, proper or historical order. example Aristotle wearing a wrist watch.

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Moralistic ?

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Over fond of making moral judgments about others.

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Self-righteous?

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Being certain that one is totally correct or morally superior.

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Conjecture?

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An opinion or conclusion formed on the basis of incomplete information.

51
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What’s virtue signalling ?

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Is the act of speaking or behaving in a way that’s meant to demonstrate one’s good moral values. Often on social media, saying how much they support a certain cause.

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What’s nihilism?

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The belief that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated. It’s often used with extreme pessimism. A true nihilist would believe in nothing and have no loyalties.

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Censorious?

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Highly critical, like to point out the flaws in everything. A critical attitude.

54
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What’s the term the West mean ?

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Various regions and states, mainly that of Europe, Northern America and Australasia.

55
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What’s Epoch ?

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A particular period of time in history or a persons life.

56
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Materialistic?

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Excessively concerned with material possessions such as money.

57
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What’s philosophy?

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The study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality and existence.

58
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Who’s the real father of philosophy?

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Socrates of Athens

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Proclivity?

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A tendency to chose or to do something regularly.

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Endowment?

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A quality or ability possessed or inherited by someone. “His natural endowment was his height and intelligence”

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first as a neurotic; then, as a ratfink ?

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Neurotic mental emotional or physical reactions that are irrational or drastic.

Ratfink is a betrayer or nark or informant

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Denigrates ?

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Deny the importants of

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Spurned

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To be rejected disdainfully

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serpent ?

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a noxious creature that creeps, hisses, or stings

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cherubim ?

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an order of angels

66
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subjugation ?

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to bring under control and governance as a subject

67
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theological ?

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the study of religious faith, practice, and experience

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Medicament ?

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a healing substance; medicine; remedy.

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paradisal ?

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of a place or state) ideal or idyllic; heavenly.

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precosmogonic ?

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occurring or existing before the creation of the universe.

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imbuing ?

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inspire or permeate with (a feeling or quality).

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profundity ?

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great depth of insight or knowledge.

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intimation ?

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an indication or hint.

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prelapsarian ?

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characteristic of the time before the Fall of Man; innocent and unspoilt.

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besets ?

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of a problem or difficulty) trouble (someone or something) persistently.

76
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altruistically ?

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in a way that involves caring about others and helping them, despite not gaining anything by doing this

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archetypal ?

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very typical of a certain kind of person or thing

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bereft ?

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deprived of or lacking (something).

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entropy ?

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lack of order or predictability; gradual decline into disorder.

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Toto ?

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means “all together” or “without exception.”

81
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indelibly ?

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in a way that cannot be removed or forgotten.

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anonymity ?

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lack of outstanding, individual, or unusual features; impersonality.

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indolent ?

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wanting to avoid activity or exertion; lazy.

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