List I Flashcards

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Stoic

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A person who can endure pain or hardship without showing their feelings or complaining

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Utopia

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An imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect

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Seraphic

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Characteristic of or resembling a seraph or seraphim (angelic being)

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Quixotic

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Foolishly impractical especially in pursuit of ideals

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Posh

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Elegant or stylishly luxurious

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Pariah

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Outcast

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Masochist

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Person who enjoys being in pain

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Hackneyed

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Lacking significance through having been overused

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Gargantuan

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Enormous

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Cynic

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A person who believes that people are motivated purely by self-interest

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Cherubic

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Having childlike innocence and plumpness of a cherub

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Behemoth

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Something very large; enormous

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Apocryphal

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Of doubtful authenticity; fabricated

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