Gen Ed Flashcards
Abase
Demoted
Despotic
Cruel
Persiflage
Praise Glowingly
Desterity
Manual skills
Amorphous
Shapeless
Penchant
Fondness
Pulchritude
Loveliness
Transmuted
Change
Transcendental
Supernatural
Rancor
Bitterness
Carnal
Worldly
Mundane
Ordinary
Profanity
Obscenity
Apocalyptic
Prophetic
Impertinent
Irrelevant
Loquacious
Verbose
Voracious
Eager
Abandoned
Left Behind
Conflagration
Large Fire
Aplomb
Composure or Relax
Volition
Will/ Power to Make Choices
Esoteric
Understandable by Few
Queue
Line
Baduy
Awkward looking
Docile
Easy to Manage
Euphoria
State of Well Being
Euphoria
State of Well Being
Erudite
Learned
Erzats
Artificial.
Avowal
Open Declaration/Acknowledgement
Collocation
Gathering
Blizzard
Severe Snowstorm
Farce
Violent horseplay
Satire
Ridicule
At sixes and Sevens
State of Confusion
Lost One
Past Lover
Storm in a Teacup
Big fuss about a small problem
Parsimonious
Stingy
First Rate
Excellent
Lucid
Clear Thinking
Faust
True to Life Person Character
Inadmissible
Not Acceptable
Warlock
Male Witch
Ignominicusful
Shameful
Culpable
Guilty
Emanate
Originate/Emerge
Erratic
Unpredictable/Irregular
Conspicuous
Attracting Attention
Shilly
Indecisive
Wary
Cautious/Careful
Credulous
Gullible
Lethargic
Lacking Interest
Euphoria
Extreme Pleasure
Divination
Foretelling
Salient
Important
Intrepid
Very brave
Emancipation
To be set free
Benevolent
Kind
Divisive
Kanya kanya
Depravity
Viciousness
Emulate
Imitate
Imminent
To happen
Eminent
High Standing
Epiphany
Insight
Sine qua non
Indispensable
Soiree
Evening party
Connoisseur
Expert in taste
Chauffeur
Driver
Mesdames
Plural of Madame
Renaissance
Rebirth
Acapella
Solo singing without accompaniment
Alter Ego
Close/Inseparable friend
Amor con amor se paga
Love Begets Love
Caveat Emptor
Let the buyer decide
Ad nauseum
Excessively eager
Ad Hominem
Personal Attacks
Coup de Grace
Death Blow
In Medias Res
In the midst of things
Carpe diem
Enjoy the pleasure of the moment/grasp pleasure while you can
Father of Printing
Johannes Gutenberg
Father of English Essay
Francis Bacon
Greatest English/sonnet writer
- bard of avon
William Shakespeare
Father of English Lit
- Morning Star of English Lit
Geoffrey Chaucer
Father of Horror
Detective Stories
Edgar Allan Poe
Foremost French short story writer
Guy de Maupassant
- Mythical Geographer
- Vivid Description
Homer
Greatest Orator
Cicero
Greatest Lyric Poem
Psalms of King David
Indian National Poety
1st Asian Nobel Prize Lit
Rabindranath Tagore
India’s Shakespeare
Kalidasa
Italian Sonnet
Petrarch
Father of English Prose
William Tyndale
Wrote his last novel in crayon
James Joyce
Father of Dramatic Criticism
Aristotle
Most modern of moderns
Eugene O’ neill
Recited the gift outright
Robert Frost
Nobel Prize Literature 1919
Carl F.G Spitteler
Recipient of Literature Nobel Prize 1954
Ernest Hemingway
Historian of the Revolution
Clemente Zulueta
1st Palanca Awardee for Play
Dionisio Salazar
Victorian Era Writer
Elizabeth Browning
Greatest Chinese Poet before the Revolution
Li Po
Solves sphinx riddle
Oedipus
Goddess of ph poetry
Ophelia Demalanta