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Albert Camus: The Rebel Flashcards

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Annex

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To append or attach (especially to a larger or more significant thing) an attribute, condition, or consequence
- to appropriate without permission
SYN: Join, add

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Acquiesce

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To consent or comply passively or without protest

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Abject

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Brought low in condition or status
- Being of the most miserable kind
SYN: Wretched, dejected

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Balk

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To stop short and refuse to go on

SYN: Hinder, thwart

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Bellicose

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Warlike or hostile in manner or temperament

SYN: Aggressive

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Calumny

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A false statement maliciously made to injure another’s reputation

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Conciliatory

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To overcome the distrust or animosity of
- to regain/try to regain by pleasant behavior
SYN: Appease, reconcile, placate

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Derisory

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An object of ridicule, esp because of being ridiculously small or inadequate
- Contemptuous or jeering laughter
SYN: Laughinstock
EX: a contribution so small as to be derisory

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Demiurge

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A powerful creative force or personality

- A Platonic deity who orders or fashions the material world out of chaos (i.e. the creator of the earth)

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Dispensation

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An exemption or release from an obligation or rule, granted by or as if by an authority
- The act of dispensing

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Execration

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the act of cursing

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Folly

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a lack of good sense, understanding, or foresight

- not malicious

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Inexorable

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Not capable of being persuaded by entreaty
SYN: Relentless
EX: He’s inexorable; didn’t give that woman a chance to finish before taking everything he was owed.

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Incipient

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beginning to exist or appear

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Indolence

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Habitual laziness

SYN: Sloth

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Insurrection

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The act or an instance of open revolt against civil authority or a constituted government

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Imbued

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To inspire or influence thoroughly
- To permeate or saturate
SYN: Pervade

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Mire

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A disadvantageous or difficult condition or situation

- An area of wet, soggy, muddy ground

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Maenia Mundi

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“The burning borders of the world”.

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Malediction

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a curse - slanderous accusation or comment

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Mete

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A boundary line; a limit

SYN: Allot

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Precipitately

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To cause to happen, especially suddenly or prematurely

- To throw from or as if from a great height; hurl downward

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Repudiate

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To reject the validity or authority of

- To reject emphatically as unfounded, untrue, or unjust

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Rampart

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A fortification consisting of an embankment, often with a parapet built on top

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Sophism

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A plausible but fallacious argument

- Deceptive or fallacious argumentation.

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Subterfuge

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deceit used in order to achieve one’s goal

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Sublimate

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To modify the natural expression of (a primitive, instinctual impulse) in a socially acceptable manner.
ETY: 1590s, “raise to a high place”

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Abhor

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to regard with loathing; detest

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Absurd

Camus

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Since existence itself has no meaning, we must learn to bear an irresolvable emptiness. This paradoxical situation between our impulse to ask ultimate questions and the impossibility of achieving any adequate answer, is what Camus calls the absurd
- Camus’s understanding of absurdity: Sisyphus straining to push his rock up the mountain, watching it roll down, then descending after the rock to begin all over, in an endless cycle - Like Sisyphus, humans cannot help but continue to ask after the meaning of life, only to see our answers tumble back down.

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Bastilles

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A prison/jail

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Chasm

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A sudden interruption of continuity
- A pronounced difference of opinion, interests, or loyalty
- A deep, steep-sided opening in the earth’s surface
SYN: gorge, abyss, gap

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Culpable

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Deserving of blame or censure as being wrong, evil, improper, or injurious

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Circumvallation

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to surround with, or as if with, a rampart - Surrounded by a ridge or raised, wall-like structure.

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Dilettant

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amateur

EX. What a dilettant speculation

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Derisory

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Laughable, ridiculous

Derisive- mocking, jeering

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Deride

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To speak of or treat with contemptuous mirth

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Edifice

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An elaborate conceptual structure
- a complex or elaborate institution or organization
EX. Sagrada de familia

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Effigy

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a crude representation of someone disliked, used for purposes of ridicule.

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Extol

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To praise highly

SYN; exalt

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Frenetic

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Wildly excited or active

SYN: frantic

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Glutted

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to fill beyond capacity, esp with food
- To flood (a market) with an excess of goods so that supply exceeds demand
SYN: Satiate

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Golgatha

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a skull shaped hill in Jerusalem, where Jesus was crucified

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Incumbent

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imposed as an obligation or duty
- Lying, leaning, or resting on something else
SYN: Obligation
EX. She felt it was incumbent on us all to help.

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Implacable

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impossible to placate or appease

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Languid

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Lacking energy or vitality - Showing little or no spirit or animation
SYN: weak, listless, slow

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Microcosm

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man regarded as epitomizing the universe

-A small, representative system having analogies to a larger system in constitution, configuration, or development

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Mirth

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Gladness and gaiety, especially when expressed by laughter

SYN: merriment

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Nihilism

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a philosophy of skepticism that originated in 19th-century Russia
- Nihilism is the belief that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated. It is often associated with extreme pessimism and a radical skepticism that condemns existence. A true nihilist would believe in nothing, have no loyalties, and no purpose other than, perhaps, an impulse to destroy
ETY: from Latin nihil, “nothing”

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Negation

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A denial, contradiction, or negative statement.

- The opposite or absence of something regarded as actual, positive, or affirmative.

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Obviate

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To anticipate and dispose of effectively; render unnecessary - to avoid or prevent

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Ostensible

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Represented or appearing as such

EX. His ostensible purpose was charity, but his real goal was popularity.

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Obstinacy

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The state or quality of being stubborn or resistant

SYN: Refractory

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Paroxysm

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A sudden outburst of emotion or action

- A spasm or fit; a convulsion

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Perspicacity

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Acuteness of perception, discernment, or understanding

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Paroxysm

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A sudden outburst of emotion or action

- A spasm or fit; a convulsion

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Penitence

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regret for wrong doing

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Perspicacity

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Acuteness of perception, discernment, or understanding

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Reverent

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Marked by, feeling, or expressing profound awe and respect and often love
SYN: Venerate

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Sordid

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Filthy or dirty
- morally degraded
SYN: Foul, wretched

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Sanction

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A penalty, specified or in the form of moral pressure, that acts to ensure compliance or conformity

  • Authoritative permission or approval that makes a course of action valid
  • A consideration, influence, or principle that dictates an ethical choice
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Syllogism

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Reasoning from the general to the specific

EX: All humans are mortal, the major premise, I am a human, the minor premise, therefore, I am mortal, the conclusion

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Sordid

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Filthy or dirty
- morally degraded
SYN: Foul, wretched,

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Transposing

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To reverse or transfer the order or place of
- To alter in form or nature
SYN: Transform, interchange

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Tenacious

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Holding or tending to hold persistently to something

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Vindicate

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To clear of accusation, blame, suspicion, or doubt with supporting arguments or proof
- To exact revenge for
SYN: Avenge

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Earnest

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Marked by or showing deep sincerity or seriousness

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Entreaty

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An earnest request or petition; a plea.

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