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Glass Menagerie Flashcards

1
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Allusion

A

Indirect reference to an external object or event

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Archetype

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Perfect example of something

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Ave Maria

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  • Classical composition by Bach

- Catholic Prayer

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Averted

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Turn away from, avoid

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Beaux

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Male suitors (plural of beau)

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Beleaguered

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Lay siege to, to beset with difficulties

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Candelabrum

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Branched candle holder with multiple candles

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Confiscated

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Taken away from (i.e. Confiscate a cell phone)

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Conglomeration

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A collection of things grouped together

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Cotillion

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A social dance

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Daughters of the American Revolution

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Group for women of direct descendants of American Revolutionaries that support the preservation of history, education, etc.

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Deception

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A lie, not felling the truth, tricking someone into believing you

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Decorously

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Politely, properly conducting oneself

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Demure

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Reserved, modest, shy

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Dissaray

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A mess, out of order (i.e. Room in disarray)

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Dismal

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Lacking, minimal (i.e. The rocket had a dismal flight pattern)

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Elegiac

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Having a mournful quality

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Emissary

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Diplomatic representative

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Emulate

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To mimic

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Endowments

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  • Gifts, things bestowed upon someone

- Financial Donation to a non-profit

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Enraptured

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Fascinated, enthralled

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Fiasco

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A ludicrous or humiliating failure

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Flourish

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  • Bold or extravagant movement or action

- To develop or grow and become something great

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Gesticulating

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Use dramatic gestures to emphasize a point

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Guernica

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1937 German experimental bombing of Guernica, Spain

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Imminent

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Soon coming, fast approaching

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Implacable

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Relentless

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Inaudibly

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Unable to be heard

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Indolently

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Slothful, a disposition to avoid exertion

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Ineluctably

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Inescapably

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Inquisition

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Prolonged investigation

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Jauntily

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Sprightly (in reference to a type of walk)

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Judicious

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Showing good judgement or sense

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Luminous

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Bright, light filled

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Mastication

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Moving of the jaw in a chewing motion

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Matriculating

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Enrolling in a college or university

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Menagerie

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Collection of wild animals

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Motley

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Varied in appearance or character

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Obscuring

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Blocking, concealing

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Ominous

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Scary, giving the impression that something bad will happen

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Paragon

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Someone regarded as the perfect example of something

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Patronage

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Support of something

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Perturbation

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Anxiety, uneasiness, deviance from a system

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Pinioned

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To tie off the arms or legs of

45
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Poetic License

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The Liberty artists take in creating their own work while deviating from the original

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Portier

A

Gatekeeper

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Pleurosis

A

Inflammation of the membrane surrounding the lungs

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Precipitated

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To cause an undesirable event from happening

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Preoccupation

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State of being engrossed in something

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Proscenium

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Part of a theater stage in front of a curtain

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Prudent

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Showing thought and care for the future

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Victrola

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Record player

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Vivacity

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Quality of being lively and animated

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Querulous

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Complaining in a whining manner

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Rhapsodic

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Enthusiastic expression of feeling

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Rite

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Religious or solemn ceremony or act

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Ritual

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Religious or solemn ceremony consisting of a series of actions done in a prescribed order.

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Satirical

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Sarcastic, critical, or mocking

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Spartan Endurance

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Tremendous endurance likened to those of Sparta in ancient Rome

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Specter

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Viewer

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Staid

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Sedate, respectable, unadventurous

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Stupefied

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Stunned, shocked, unable to think or feel properly

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Sublimations

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Transformations into a solid state

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Subsides

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Becomes less intense

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Supercilious

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Behaving or looking as if someone is superior to another

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Tribulations

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Cause or state of great trouble or suffering, trials

67
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Translucent

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Allowing light to come through, almost transparent

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Tyranny

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Cruel and oppressive government or rule

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Unobtrusive

A

Not conspicuous or attracting attention

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