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Chapters 9 - 11 Flashcards

0
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A plucked string instrument associated with Ancient Greece

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Lyre

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1
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Born out of wedlock

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Illegitimate

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2
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Someone who shows exceptional talent at an early age

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Prodigy

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3
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A provable formula

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Theorem

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4
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A go-between

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Intermediary

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5
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Where you live

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Residence

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6
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Really really big

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Colossal

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7
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Show or portray

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Depict

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8
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Grand, intimidating

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Imposing

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9
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To collect a large amount of something over a period of time

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Accumulate

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10
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Notable speaking ability

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Eloquent

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11
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Discuss terms of an agreement

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Negotiate

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12
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Very unfriendly

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Hostile

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13
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Bad at doing something

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Incompetent

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14
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A competitor

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Contender

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15
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Sarcastic, say the opposite of truth for humor

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Ironic

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16
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Humor based on opposites

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Irony

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17
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Engaged

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Betrothed

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18
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Dangerous,unstable, unsteady

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Precarious

19
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Interrupt progress of somebody or something (seize, capture)

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Intercept

20
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Cause something to fail through carelessness, bumbler

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Bungler

21
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Shock people by bad or improper behavior (shock, disgust)

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Scandalized

22
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Do something for reasons of strategy (plan, calculated, tactical)

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Strategic

23
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Very fast or brilliant (sudden, dramatic, spectacular)

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Meteoric

24
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Sudden and violent upheaval that causes great change (disaster, tragic)

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Cataclysmic

25
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Make someone furious

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Infuriated

26
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In name only not in reality

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Nominally

27
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Passed on by birth

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Hereditary title

28
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Choose not to have sex, like the priesthood

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Celibate

29
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Instigation

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To get something started

30
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Chancellor

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Head of a goverment

31
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Lieutenants

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An army office

32
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Armistice

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A break in the fighting

33
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Gullible

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Easily fooled

34
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Notary

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Someone asking to be a lawyer

35
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Militia

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Sailors who are vilans

36
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Hypocrisy

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Someone who pretends to have values,fraud,phony Hyprocrite

37
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Ecclesiastical

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Involving the Christian Church

38
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Squander

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Use something waste fully

39
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Balk

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Hesitate,be unwilling to move,accept

40
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Consequently

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As A result

41
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Strove

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To try hard (Strive)

42
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Casualties

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Member of military,killed or injured out of combat

43
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Indulgences

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Paying money to cover sins

44
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Condescending

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To look down on,to behave toward others to show a way that shows you feel superior

45
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Restoration

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To restore something bring back how it was

46
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Corrupt

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Immoral dishonest advantage of a position of a power

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