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Babbitt

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materialistic, complacent, and conformist businessman

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Brobdingnagian

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gigantic in size or scale

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Bumble

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arrogance or conceit of the petty dignitary

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Don Juan

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reputation for seducing women

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Don Quixote

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insanity, idealism, and thinness; foolish, mistakenly idealist; believes that he can set the world right by himself; fights against illusory evils or fails to see things how they really are

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Quixotic

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extremely idealistic, unrealistic, or impractical

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Falstaffian

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fat, jolly, and debauched

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Galahad

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chivalrous heroism, nobility, integrity, or courtesy

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Jekyll and Hyde

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someone whose personality appears to undergo an abrupt transformation, particularly from gentleness to aggressiveness or violence; changing into Mr. Hyde can be paralleled with becoming evil

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Lilliputian

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petty, pretentious, and facetious, “trivial or very small”

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Little Lord Fauntlerov

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an excessively well-mannered or elaborately dressed young boy

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Lothario

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someone who partakes in free indulgence in sensual pleasures

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Malapropism

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aptitude for misusing long words

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Milquetoast

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submissive, meek, or timid person

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Panglossian

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an optimistic person despite the circumstances

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Pickwickian

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jovial, generous, and unworldly in character and short, plump, and bespectacled in appearance

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Pollyanna

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cheerfulness in the most unpromising situations (may be perceived as naivety by others)

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Pooh-bah

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a self-important person; a person holding many offices at once

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Scrooge

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any mean or tight-fisted person

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Simon Legree

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a brutal taskmaster (plantation owner in Uncle Tom’s Cabin)

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Svengali

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someone who establishes nearly complete or total influence over someone else, mesmeric influence on another; usually for a sinister purpose

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Tartuffe

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a religious hypocrite or a hypocritical pretender to excellence of any kind

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Uncle Tom

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black man who has behavior that is considered to be submissively servile to whites; anyone who betrays social allegiances

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Uriah Heep

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obsequious and false humility (or alluded to the gesture of him rubbing his hands together)

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Walter Mitty

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someone who lives in a fantasy world, especially someone who has lost touch with reality

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Yahoo

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a course, loutish, or rowdy person, or one who engages in wanton vandalism; a rude, noisy, or violent person

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Absalom

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the ultimate rebellious son

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Alpha and Omega

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the beginning and the end; the essence or most important features

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Cain

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murderer, “mark of Cain”- sign of a murderer, “raise Cain”- cause trouble or commotion

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Daniel

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courage; someone who faces great danger without material protection

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David & Bathsheba

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David sleeps with Bathsheba, Uriah’s wife. David sends Uriah into the front line of battle to get killed. Bathsheba mourns for a bit and then marries David.

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Eye of the Needle Filthy Lucre

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distasteful money

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Goliath

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a person or thing of enormous size or strength

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Handwriting on the Wall

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a herald of doom

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Ishmael

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an outcast

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Jacob

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a patient lover OR something pleasurable or immediately satisfying OR someone who tricks or deceives others to gain what he wants

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Job

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humbleness, forbearance

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Job’s comforter

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someone who tries to provide comfort but has the opposite effect

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Jonah

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someone who has survived a difficult or dangerous situation

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Judas

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one who betrays a friend, a “Judas kiss” is an act of betrayal

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King Ahab and Jezebel

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wickedness, especially the offense of honoring pagan gods

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Manna

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something beneficial that is provided unexpectedly or opportunely (spiritual nourishment)

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Original Sin

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The Fall (of man), original sin of Adam and Eve

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Pearl of Great Price

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alludes to those who are searching for something of great value

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Philistine

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people who are indifferent to culture and the arts and have uncultivated tastes

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Prodigal Son

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a repentant sinner OR returned wanderer OR wasteful extravagance (prodigal meaning)

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Ruth and Naomi

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epitome of loyalty and devotion

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Samson and Delilah

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Samson’s hair can be alluded to when referring to a powerful person rendered vulnerable (Delilah found his Achilles heel!)

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Scapegoat

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a person who takes the blame for the wrongs of others

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Sepulcher

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a burial vault

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Sodom and Gomorrah

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depravity and wickedness

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Solomon

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wisdom and justice

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Twelve Tribes of Israel

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twelve kin groups of ancient Israel, each traditionally descended from one of the 12 sons of Jacob

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Atilla the Hun

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savagery

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Berserk

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wild or frenzied

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Bowdlerize

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remove “improper or offensive” material, which often causes the text to lose meaning

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Casanova

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Italian, promiscuous love affairs

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Chauvinist

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blind or absurd devotion to a leader, exaggerated or unreasonable partisanship to a group, someone who believes in the superiority of his/her own kind

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Derrick

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gallows/framework/hangman

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Donnybrook

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uproar or disorder

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El Dorado

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“the Gilded One”, a place of fabulous wealth

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Hackney

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a horse or pony, a horse-drawn vehicle

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Horatio Alger

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rags to riches, adventure stories for boys

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Laconic

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using very few words, paralleled with “Sparta”

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Limerick

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nonsense verse of 5 lines

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Machiavellian

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deceit, cunning, scheming in pursuit of personal power

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Nostradamus

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foretelling prominent global events

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Sardonic

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bitter or scornful laughter

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Shanghai

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to compel someone to do something, especially by fraud or force

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Spartan

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characterized by austerity or lack of comfort for luxury

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Stonewall

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to hinder by delaying tactics

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Swiftian

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satirical

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Sybaritic

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fond of sensuous luxury or pleasure; self-indulgent

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Thespian

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related to drama or acting

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Uncle Sam

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a personification of the federal government or the citizens of the US

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Wagnerian

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a term applied to anything that evokes the dramatic music, storms, and strong emotions depicted in Wagner’s operas

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Waterloo

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a decisive or final defeat or setback

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