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<p>What is the definition of: Human Condition</p>

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<p>The characteristics, key events and situations which compose the essentials of human existence, e.g. birth, growth etc.</p>

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What is the definition of: Human Experience

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The realities of human existence, including the mental, emotional, spiritual and physical characteristics of human life.

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What is the definition of: Humanity

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The quality of being humane

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What is the definition of: Simile

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A comparison between two things using like or as

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What is the definition of: Vulnerable

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To be exposed to the possibility of being attacked or harmed, without protection

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What is the definition of: Sibilance

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Repetition of the ‘s’ sound

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What is the definition of: Personification

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Providing a non-living object with human qualities

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What is the definition of: Ethics

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Moral principles that govern a person’s behaviour or actions

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What is the definition of: Love

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An intense feeling of deep affection

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What is the definition of: Suffering

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The state of undergoing pain, distress or hardship

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What is the definition of: Hyperbole

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Exaggerated statements or claims

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What is the definition of: Alliteration

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Repetition of the same sound to reinforce the mood of a text

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What is the definition of: Metaphor

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A non-literal comparison between two things

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What is the definition of: Oxymoron

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A figure of speech in which opposing words appear next to each other

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What is the definition of: Preposition

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A word preceding a noun or pronoun and relating to other words in the clause.

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What is the definition of: Conjunction

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A comparative word or phrase used to join sentences together or make comparisons

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What is the definition of: Anaphora

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Repetition of words or phrases at the start of successive clauses

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What is the definition of: Hypophora

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When a question is asked and immediately answered. A type of rhetorical question.

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What is the definition of: Sinister

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  1. Giving the impression that something harmful or evil is happening or will happen 2. evil or criminal
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What is the definition of: Realist

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A person who accepts a situation as it is and is prepared to deal with it accordingly

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What is the definition of: Pathetic Fallacy

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Using the weather to reflect the mood of the characters or scene to create tone and develop emotion

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What is the definition of: Rhetorical Question

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A question that does not require an answer, used for emphasis and reflection

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What is the definition of: Repetition

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Using the same words or phrases in a text for emphasis

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What is the definition of: Adverb

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A word used to describe a verb

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What is the definition of: Ethos

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Appealing to a speaker’s reputation in order for an audience to trust them.

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What is the definition of: Pathos

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Appealing to the emotions of an audience, often through sympathy.

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What is the definition of: Logos

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Using logic and reasoning to support your viewpoints.

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What is the definition of: Tricolon

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Grouping emotive words or phrases in three for emphasis

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What is the definition of: Surreal

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Bizarre

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What is the definition of: Sombre

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  1. Dark or dull in colour or tone 2. Having or conveying a feeling of deep seriousness and sadness
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What is the definition of: Fiction

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Texts that are not real-life, or based on true events, linking to the imagination.

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What is the definition of: Non-fiction

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Texts based on true events.

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What is the definition of: Relationship

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  1. The way in which two or more people or things are connected, or the state of being connected 2. The state of being connected by blood or marriage
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What is the definition of: Futility

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Pointlessness or uselessness

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What is the definition of: Sorrow

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A feeling of deep distress caused by loss, disappointment or other misfortune suffered by oneself or others

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What is the definition of: Poignant

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Evoking a keen sense of sadness or regret

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What is the definition of: Responsibility

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  1. The state or fact of having a duty to deal with something or having control over someone 2. The state or fact of being accountable or to blame for something
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What is the definition of: Dystopian

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An imagined state or society in which there is great suffering or injustice

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What is the definition of: British Values

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A set of rules followed to maintain a peaceful and ordered society

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What is the definition of: Invasive

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  1. Tending to spread very quickly and undesirably or harmfully 2. Tending to intrude on a person’s thoughts or privacy
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What is the definition of: Corruption

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Dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power

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What is the definition of: Evangelists

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A person who seeks to convert others to the Christian faith

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What is the definition of: Religion

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The belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, particularly a God

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What is the definition of: Nostalgia

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A sentimental longing or wistful affection for a period in the past

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What is the definition of: Terrorism

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The unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims

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What is the definition of: Chaos

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Complete disorder and confusion

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What is the definition of: Slavery

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A condition of having to work very hard without proper appreciation or payment

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What is the definition of: Colony

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A country or area under the full or partial political control of another country and occupied by settlers from that country.

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What is the definition of: The Holocaust

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Mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime in concentration camps

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What is the definition of: Auschwitz

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A concentration in which millions of Jews were murdered during the Holocaust

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What is the definition of: Inhuman

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Lacking human qualities of compassion and mercy; cruel and barbaric

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What is the definition of: Culture

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the ideas, customs and social behaviour of a particular people or society

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What is the definition of: Aborigine

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The original inhabitants of Australia

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What is the definition of: The Dreamtime

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The Aboriginal understanding of the world, of its creation and its great stories.

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What is the definition of: Creation Story

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The Christian belief about how the world and humanity was created

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What is the definition of: Divine

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Of or like God

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57
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What is the definition of: Evolution

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The process by which differing kinds of living organism are believed to have developed from earlier forms during the history of the earth

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What is the definition of: Origin of the Species

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A scientific literature published by Charles Darwin which introduced the scientific theory that populations evolve over generations through natural selection.

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What is the definition of: Charles Darwin

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A biologist who contributed to the science of evolution

60
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What is the definition of: Passion

A

Strong and barely controlled emotion

61
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What is the definition of: Artificial Intelligence

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The simulation of human intelligence processes by machines

62
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What is the definition of: Stephen Hawking

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A British scientist and professor who performed ground-breaking work in physics and cosmology.

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What is the definition of: Descriptive

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Serving to describe

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What is the definition of: Narrative

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A spoken or written account of connected events; a story

65
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What is the definition of: Prose

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Written or spoken language in its ordinary form; stories or poetry

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What is the definition of: Transactional

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Non-fiction writing that intend to communicate information between groups of people

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What is the definition of: Critical Literacy

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In-depth thinking and analysis of texts in order to uncover messages and meaning

68
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What is the definition of: Inspiration

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The process of being mentally stimulated to do or feel something, especially something creative

69
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What is the definition of: Psyche

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The human soul, mind or spirit

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What is the definition of: Unique

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Being the only one of its kind; unlike anything else

71
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What word means: The characteristics, key events and situations which compose the essentials of human existence, e.g. birth, growth etc.

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Human Condition

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What word means: The realities of human existence, including the mental, emotional, spiritual and physical characteristics of human life.

A

Human Experience

73
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What word means: The quality of being humane

A

Humanity

74
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What word means: A comparison between two things using like or as

A

Simile

75
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What word means: To be exposed to the possibility of being attacked or harmed, without protection

A

Vulnerable

76
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What word means: Repetition of the ‘s’ sound

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Sibilance

77
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What word means: Providing a non-living object with human qualities

A

Personification

78
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What word means: Moral principles that govern a person’s behaviour or actions

A

Ethics

79
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What word means: An intense feeling of deep affection

A

Love

80
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What word means: The state of undergoing pain, distress or hardship

A

Suffering

81
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What word means: Exaggerated statements or claims

A

Hyperbole

82
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What word means: Repetition of the same sound to reinforce the mood of a text

A

Alliteration

83
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What word means: A non-literal comparison between two things

A

Metaphor

84
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What word means: A figure of speech in which opposing words appear next to each other

A

Oxymoron

85
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What word means: A word preceding a noun or pronoun and relating to other words in the clause.

A

Preposition

86
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What word means: A comparative word or phrase used to join sentences together or make comparisons

A

Conjunction

87
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What word means: Repetition of words or phrases at the start of successive clauses

A

Anaphora

88
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What word means: When a question is asked and immediately answered. A type of rhetorical question.

A

Hypophora

89
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What word means: 1. Giving the impression that something harmful or evil is happening or will happen 2. evil or criminal

A

Sinister

90
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What word means: A person who accepts a situation as it is and is prepared to deal with it accordingly

A

Realist

91
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What word means: Using the weather to reflect the mood of the characters or scene to create tone and develop emotion

A

Pathetic Fallacy

92
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What word means: A question that does not require an answer, used for emphasis and reflection

A

Rhetorical Question

93
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What word means: Using the same words or phrases in a text for emphasis

A

Repetition

94
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What word means: A word used to describe a verb

A

Adverb

95
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What word means: Appealing to a speaker’s reputation in order for an audience to trust them.

A

Ethos

96
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What word means: Appealing to the emotions of an audience, often through sympathy.

A

Pathos

97
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What word means: Using logic and reasoning to support your viewpoints.

A

Logos

98
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What word means: Grouping emotive words or phrases in three for emphasis

A

Tricolon

99
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What word means: Bizarre

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Surreal

100
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What word means: 1. Dark or dull in colour or tone 2. Having or conveying a feeling of deep seriousness and sadness

A

Sombre

101
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What word means: Texts that are not real-life, or based on true events, linking to the imagination.

A

Fiction

102
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What word means: Texts based on true events.

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Non-fiction

103
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What word means: 1. The way in which two or more people or things are connected, or the state of being connected 2. The state of being connected by blood or marriage

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Relationship

104
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What word means: Pointlessness or uselessness

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Futility

105
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What word means: A feeling of deep distress caused by loss, disappointment or other misfortune suffered by oneself or others

A

Sorrow

106
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What word means: Evoking a keen sense of sadness or regret

A

Poignant

107
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What word means: 1. The state or fact of having a duty to deal with something or having control over someone 2. The state or fact of being accountable or to blame for something

A

Responsibility

108
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What word means: An imagined state or society in which there is great suffering or injustice

A

Dystopian

109
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What word means: A set of rules followed to maintain a peaceful and ordered society

A

British Values

110
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What word means: 1. Tending to spread very quickly and undesirably or harmfully 2. Tending to intrude on a person’s thoughts or privacy

A

Invasive

111
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What word means: Dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power

A

Corruption

112
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What word means: A person who seeks to convert others to the Christian faith

A

Evangelists

113
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What word means: The belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, particularly a God

A

Religion

114
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What word means: A sentimental longing or wistful affection for a period in the past

A

Nostalgia

115
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What word means: The unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims

A

Terrorism

116
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What word means: Complete disorder and confusion

A

Chaos

117
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What word means: A condition of having to work very hard without proper appreciation or payment

A

Slavery

118
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What word means: A country or area under the full or partial political control of another country and occupied by settlers from that country.

A

Colony

119
Q

What word means: Mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime in concentration camps

A

The Holocaust

120
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What word means: A concentration in which millions of Jews were murdered during the Holocaust

A

Auschwitz

121
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What word means: Lacking human qualities of compassion and mercy; cruel and barbaric

A

Inhuman

122
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What word means: the ideas, customs and social behaviour of a particular people or society

A

Culture

123
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What word means: The original inhabitants of Australia

A

Aborigine

124
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What word means: The Aboriginal understanding of the world, of its creation and its great stories.

A

The Dreamtime

125
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What word means: The Christian belief about how the world and humanity was created

A

Creation Story

126
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What word means: Of or like God

A

Divine

127
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What word means: The process by which differing kinds of living organism are believed to have developed from earlier forms during the history of the earth

A

Evolution

128
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What word means: A scientific literature published by Charles Darwin which introduced the scientific theory that populations evolve over generations through natural selection.

A

Origin of the Species

129
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What word means: A biologist who contributed to the science of evolution

A

Charles Darwin

130
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What word means: Strong and barely controlled emotion

A

Passion

131
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What word means: The simulation of human intelligence processes by machines

A

Artificial Intelligence

132
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What word means: A British scientist and professor who performed ground-breaking work in physics and cosmology.

A

Stephen Hawking

133
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What word means: Serving to describe

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Descriptive

134
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What word means: A spoken or written account of connected events; a story

A

Narrative

135
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What word means: Written or spoken language in its ordinary form; stories or poetry

A

Prose

136
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What word means: Non-fiction writing that intend to communicate information between groups of people

A

Transactional

137
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What word means: In-depth thinking and analysis of texts in order to uncover messages and meaning

A

Critical Literacy

138
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What word means: The process of being mentally stimulated to do or feel something, especially something creative

A

Inspiration

139
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What word means: The human soul, mind or spirit

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Psyche

140
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What word means: Being the only one of its kind; unlike anything else

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Unique

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