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36 Flashcards

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Unanimous

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Fully in agreement

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Bipedalism

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Using only two legs for walking

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Ensconced

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Establish or settle in a comfortable safe or secret place

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Ethereal

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Extremely delicate and light

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Transcendent

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Beyond or above the range of normal or human experience

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Immanence

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Operating within

Inherent

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7
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Emancipation

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To be set free

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Overrule

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Reject or disallow

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Encompass

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Surround or hold within

Include comprehensively

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Inhibit

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Restrain or prevent

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Utilitarian

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Designed to be useful or practical rather than attractive

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Canard

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An unfounded rumor or story

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Improvisational

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Spontaneous performance especially in music or drama

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Preordained

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Decide or determine before hand

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Putsch

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A violent attempt to overthrow the government

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Aleatory

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Random

By chance

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Interlocutors

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A person who takes part in a dialogue or conversation

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Obtuse

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Insensitive or slow to understand

Difficult to understand

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Explicate

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Analyze and develop

20
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Dynamos

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An extremely energetic person

21
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Crackpots

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An eccentric or foolish person

22
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Hermeneutics

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Branch of knowledge that deals with interpretation

23
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Allegory

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A story poem or picture that interpreted a hidden meaning

A symbol

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Convoke

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Call together or Summon

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Excogitate

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Think out, plan or device

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Disquiet

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A feeling or anxiety or worry

27
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Choleric

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Bad tempered or irritable

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Frantic

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Distraught with fear or anxiety and other emotions

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Nominally

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In name only

Officially though but perhaps not in reality

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Costive

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Slow or reluctant in speech or actions

31
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Jouissance

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Delight of ecstasy

32
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Dotage

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Period of life where a person is old and weak

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