Gen Ed Flashcards

1
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Abase

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Demoted

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Despotic

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Cruel

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Persiflage

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Praise Glowingly

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Desterity

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Manual skills

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Amorphous

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Shapeless

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Penchant

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Fondness

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Pulchritude

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Loveliness

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Transmuted

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Change

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9
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Transcendental

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Supernatural

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10
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Rancor

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Bitterness

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11
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Carnal

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Worldly

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12
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Mundane

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Ordinary

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13
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Profanity

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Obscenity

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Apocalyptic

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Prophetic

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Impertinent

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Irrelevant

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Loquacious

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Verbose

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Voracious

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Eager

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18
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Abandoned

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Left Behind

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19
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Conflagration

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Large Fire

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20
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Aplomb

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Composure or Relax

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21
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Volition

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Will/ Power to Make Choices

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22
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Esoteric

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Understandable by Few

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23
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Queue

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Line

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24
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Baduy

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Awkward looking

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25
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Docile

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Easy to Manage

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26
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Euphoria

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State of Well Being

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27
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Euphoria

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State of Well Being

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28
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Erudite

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Learned

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29
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Erzats

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Artificial.

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30
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Avowal

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Open Declaration/Acknowledgement

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31
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Collocation

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Gathering

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32
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Blizzard

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Severe Snowstorm

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33
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Farce

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Violent horseplay

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34
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Satire

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Ridicule

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35
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At sixes and Sevens

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State of Confusion

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36
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Lost One

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Past Lover

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37
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Storm in a Teacup

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Big fuss about a small problem

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38
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Parsimonious

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Stingy

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39
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First Rate

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Excellent

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40
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Lucid

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Clear Thinking

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41
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Faust

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True to Life Person Character

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42
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Inadmissible

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Not Acceptable

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43
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Warlock

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Male Witch

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44
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Ignominicusful

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Shameful

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45
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Culpable

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Guilty

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46
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Emanate

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Originate/Emerge

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47
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Erratic

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Unpredictable/Irregular

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48
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Conspicuous

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Attracting Attention

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49
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Shilly

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Indecisive

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50
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Wary

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Cautious/Careful

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51
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Credulous

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Gullible

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52
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Lethargic

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Lacking Interest

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53
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Euphoria

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Extreme Pleasure

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54
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Divination

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Foretelling

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55
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Salient

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Important

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56
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Intrepid

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Very brave

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57
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Emancipation

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To be set free

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58
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Benevolent

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Kind

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59
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Divisive

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Kanya kanya

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60
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Depravity

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Viciousness

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61
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Emulate

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Imitate

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62
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Imminent

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To happen

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63
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Eminent

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High Standing

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64
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Epiphany

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Insight

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65
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Sine qua non

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Indispensable

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66
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Soiree

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Evening party

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67
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Connoisseur

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Expert in taste

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68
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Chauffeur

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Driver

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69
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Mesdames

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Plural of Madame

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70
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Renaissance

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Rebirth

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71
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Acapella

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Solo singing without accompaniment

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72
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Alter Ego

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Close/Inseparable friend

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73
Q

Amor con amor se paga

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Love Begets Love

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74
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Caveat Emptor

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Let the buyer decide

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75
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Ad nauseum

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Excessively eager

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76
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Ad Hominem

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Personal Attacks

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77
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Coup de Grace

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Death Blow

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78
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In Medias Res

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In the midst of things

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79
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Carpe diem

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Enjoy the pleasure of the moment/grasp pleasure while you can

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80
Q

Father of Printing

A

Johannes Gutenberg

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81
Q

Father of English Essay

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Francis Bacon

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82
Q

Greatest English/sonnet writer
- bard of avon

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William Shakespeare

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83
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Father of English Lit
- Morning Star of English Lit

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Geoffrey Chaucer

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84
Q

Father of Horror
Detective Stories

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Edgar Allan Poe

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85
Q

Foremost French short story writer

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Guy de Maupassant

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86
Q
  • Mythical Geographer
  • Vivid Description
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Homer

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87
Q

Greatest Orator

A

Cicero

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88
Q

Greatest Lyric Poem

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Psalms of King David

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89
Q

Indian National Poety
1st Asian Nobel Prize Lit

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Rabindranath Tagore

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90
Q

India’s Shakespeare

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Kalidasa

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91
Q

Italian Sonnet

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Petrarch

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92
Q

Father of English Prose

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William Tyndale

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93
Q

Wrote his last novel in crayon

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James Joyce

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94
Q

Father of Dramatic Criticism

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Aristotle

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95
Q

Most modern of moderns

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Eugene O’ neill

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96
Q

Recited the gift outright

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Robert Frost

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97
Q

Nobel Prize Literature 1919

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Carl F.G Spitteler

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98
Q

Recipient of Literature Nobel Prize 1954

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Ernest Hemingway

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99
Q

Historian of the Revolution

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Clemente Zulueta

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100
Q

1st Palanca Awardee for Play

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Dionisio Salazar

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101
Q

Victorian Era Writer

A

Elizabeth Browning

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102
Q

Greatest Chinese Poet before the Revolution

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Li Po

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103
Q

Solves sphinx riddle

A

Oedipus

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104
Q

Goddess of ph poetry

A

Ophelia Demalanta

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105
Q

1st palanca awardee for short story

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Genoveva edroza matute

106
Q

1st poetess of ph

A

Leona Florentino

107
Q

Most outstanding among Filipino playwrights

A

Wilfredo ma Guerrero

108
Q

Advocate of art for art’s sake; comma poet

A

Jose Garcia Villa

109
Q

First filipino awarded, national artist for historical lit. ( 1997 )

A

Carlos Quirino

110
Q

Literary colosus of the visayas

A

Angel magahum

111
Q

first filipino write English language novel

A

Zolio galang

112
Q

Hispanic filipino culture writer

A

Nick joaquin

113
Q

filipino comic strip writer; create filipino superheroes & comic book characters

A

Carlo j caparas

114
Q

made her mark in ph lit

A

Paz m. benetiz

115
Q

honest realism; uncommon grit and strength

A

Lualhati Bautista

116
Q

father of filipino newspapers

A

Pascual Poblete

117
Q

filipino tutor of Spanish king

A

Pedro serrano laktaw

118
Q

ask not what America…

A

John f. kenedy

119
Q

golden age of lit. prod.

A

Reign of queen Elizabeth

120
Q

eccentric use punctuation; dashes liberally

A

Emily Dickinson

121
Q

ph poet snubbed by huseng sisiw

A

Balagtas

122
Q

1 literary demo in ph

A

Book burning

123
Q

the most Greek of all gods;lord of silver bow;archer god

A

Apollo

124
Q

Mesopotamian great hero; son of King Uruk and Nisun

A

Gilgamesh

125
Q

roman goddess of wisdom

A

Minerva

126
Q

roman god of ph. Oldest drug store

A

Messenger

127
Q

4 heads,faces,and arms; supreme eternal deity

A

Brahma

128
Q

preserver of the universe

A

Vishnu

129
Q

Destroyer

A

Shiva

130
Q

sculptor fell inlove the thing he made

A

Pygmalion

131
Q

Hero in hudhud

A

Aliguyon

132
Q

dwarfs, jotnar, troll

A

Giants

133
Q

symbol of purity of grace;only captured by virgin

A

Unicorns

134
Q

1st Oldest Epic

A

Gilgamesh

135
Q

Egyptian Writing

A

Calligraphy

136
Q

collection of stories

A

1001 arabian nights

137
Q

longest epic

A

Mahabharata

138
Q

medieval german epic

A

Nibelungenlied

139
Q

collection of Indian hyms

A

Rig veda

140
Q

collection of I.texts

A

Upanishad

141
Q

collection of I. fables

A

Panchantra

142
Q

drama of Japanese bourgeoisie

A

Kabuki

143
Q

Ifugao epic

A

Hudhud

144
Q

first social novel by p. paterno

A

Ninay

145
Q

won palanca award by GE Matute

A

Kwento ni Mabuti

146
Q
  • Samuel clemens
A

Mark Twain

147
Q

Mary ann evans

A

George Elliot

148
Q

J.K Rowling

A

Robert Galbraith

149
Q

Poet of Love

A

Jose Corazon de jesus

150
Q

W/meter no rhyme

A

Blank verse

151
Q

Rural

A

Pastoral

152
Q

Nature
31
5, 7, 5, 7, 7

A

Tanka

153
Q

most beautiful women; cause trojan war; daughter of zeus

A

Helen of Troy

154
Q

how my brother leon….

A

Manuel argilla

155
Q

a child of sorrow

A

Zoilo Galang

156
Q

kwento ni Mabuti

A

Matute

157
Q

isang dipang langit

A

Amado Hernandez

158
Q

walang sugat

A

Severino Reyes

159
Q

banaag at sikat

A

Lope k santos

160
Q

biag ni lam- ang

A

Pedro bukaneg

161
Q

Magnificence

A

Estrella Alfon

162
Q

Small key, desire, sunset

A

Paz Lotarena

163
Q

The wedding dance

A

Amador Daguio

164
Q

Man Songs, Footnote to Youth,

A

Jose Garcia Villa

165
Q

The Visitation of the Gods

People in the War,

A

Gilda Cordero-Fernando -

166
Q

The Woman Who Had Two Navels

Summer Solstice

A

Nick Joaquin

167
Q

America is in the Heart, The Power of the People,

A

Carlos Bulosan

168
Q

American influence,

The Man Who Looked Like Robert Taylor

A

Bienvenido Santos

169
Q

the great Malayan

A

Carlos Quirino

170
Q

ang sigalot

A

Juan Crisostomo sotto

171
Q

Declaration of PH Independence

A

Ambrosio Bautista

172
Q

Poems in Spanish and llocano

A

Leona Florentino

173
Q

Self Reliance

A

Ralph waldo emenson

174
Q

Zita, The Wound and Scar

A

Arturo Rotor

175
Q

Juanita Crus, Ang Dalaga sa Tindahan

A

Magdalena Jalandoni

176
Q

The Creatures of Philippine,

Lower Mythology

A

Maximo Ramos

177
Q

Dogeaters, Gangsters of Love

A

Jessica Hagedorn

178
Q

The Virgin, The Hand of the Enemy

A

Kerima Polotan- Tuvera

179
Q

The Living and the Dead

A

Gregorio Brillantes

180
Q

What is an Educated Filipino?

A

Francisco Benitez

181
Q

Lit and Society

A

Salvador Lopez

182
Q

Women Enough

My Humble Opinion,

A

• Carmen Guerrero Nakpil

183
Q

Shakuntala

A

Kalidasa

184
Q

The Necklace

Ball of Fat

A

Guy de Maupassant

185
Q

Aenid

A

Pueblos Vergilius maru/virgil

186
Q

divine comedy, paradiso

A

Dante Alighieri

187
Q

Les Miserables

A

Victor Hugo

188
Q

The Little Prince

A

ADD EXUPERY

189
Q

Jungle Book

A

Rudyard Kipling

190
Q

Animal Farm

A

George Orwell

191
Q

The Raven
Annabel Lee

A

EA Poe

192
Q

Things Fall Apart

A

Chinua Achene

193
Q

R&j, merchant of V, hamlet,
Macbeth, “where ignorance is bliss…

A

Shakespeare

194
Q

Gettysburg address

A

Abraham Lincoln

195
Q

Dr. Zhivago

A

Boris Paternak

196
Q
  • The Scarlet Letter
A

Nathaniel Hawthorne

197
Q

Paradise Lost

A

John Milton

198
Q

Uncle toms cabin

A

Harriet Stowe

199
Q

Canterbury tales

A

Geoffrey chaucer

200
Q

Analects

A

Confucius

201
Q

Narnia

A

CS Lewis

202
Q

The Republic

A

Plato

203
Q

War and Peace, Annakarenina, God sees the truth but waits

A

Leo Tolstoy

204
Q

The Epic of Gilgamesh

A

Leqi-Unninni

205
Q

The Ramayana

A

Valmiki

206
Q

The Mahabharata

A

Vyasa

207
Q

Oh Liberty, The Subjection of Women

A

John Stuart Mill

208
Q

The aenid

A

Virgil

209
Q

Alcestis

A

Euripides

210
Q

Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer

A

Mark Twain

211
Q

Silas Marner

A

George Eliot

212
Q

Confessions, The Social Contact

A

John Jacques Rousseau

213
Q

Picture of durian gray

A

Oscar Wilde

214
Q

the strange case of dr. Jekyll and mr. hyde

A

Robert L. Stevenson

215
Q

alice adven. In wonderland

A

Lewis Carol

216
Q

Olympian spring

A

Carl f.g. Spitteler

217
Q

the old man and the sea

A

Ernest Hemingway

218
Q

The world is an apple

A

Alberto Florentino

219
Q

Small key

A

Paz lotarena

220
Q

ghosts

A

August Strindberg

221
Q

Aurora leigh

A

Elizabeth browning

222
Q

the great Gatsby

A

• F. scott fitzgerald

223
Q

beauty is truth, truth beauty

A

John keats

224
Q

crime punishment

A

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

225
Q

midnights children

A

Washington irving

226
Q

a rose for Emily

A

William Faulkner

227
Q

The Confessions

A

St. Augustine

228
Q

The Ancient Mariner

A

Samuel Coleridge

229
Q

Second Treatise of Government

A

John Locke

230
Q

Tom Jones

A

Henry Fielding

231
Q

Ethics, Politics, Poetics

A

Aristotle

232
Q

The Histories

A

Herodotus

233
Q

The Prelude

A

William Wordsworth

234
Q

epic, struggling to reconcile

A

Divine comedy

235
Q

1st true novel in english

A

Robinson crusoe

236
Q

Mirrors Filipino disillusionment

A

America is in the heart -

237
Q

biography of rizal

A

The great Malayan

238
Q

gnawing sadness

A

Child of sorrow

239
Q

the love of alfredo for julia; 1st successful filipino modern short story in english

A

Dead stars

240
Q

…master of my fate…captain of my soul

A

Invectus

241
Q

fisherman’s bravery

A

the old man and the sea

242
Q

one act play

A

the world is an apple

243
Q

key;chest; discover old clothes of 1st wife

A

small key

244
Q

culture goes beyond love

A

the wedding dance

245
Q

of man’s first disobedience….

A

paradise lost

246
Q

reject by new york pub; “impossible to sell animal stories”

A

Animal Farm

247
Q

problem/social play

A

Ghosts

248
Q

-was criticized

A

Aurora leigh

249
Q

abused girl

A

Magnificence

250
Q

was written in 14th century

A

Canterbury tales

251
Q

road less traveled

A

The road not taken

252
Q

man falsely judge…

A

God sees the truth but wait

253
Q

rizal’s best work

A

Mi ultimo adios -

254
Q

envy is ignorance imitition is suicide

A

self-reliance

255
Q

social aspectf.rizal)

A

Makamisa

256
Q

American civil war

A

Gown with thenwind

257
Q

all children, except one grow up

A

Peter pan

258
Q

battle among gods: good and evil

A

Theomachy

259
Q

Napoleonic invasion of russia

A

War and peace

260
Q

city of Sumerian;found earliest recording syllables on tablets

A

Ur

261
Q

location of human vocal chords

A

Larynx