Quarter 3 Vocabulary Flashcards

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Mimesis

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Imitation

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Preponderance

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Superiority of weight or power; majority

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Remunerative

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Profitable

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Catharsis

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A purification that brings about spiritual renewal or release from tension

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Analogue

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Something similar to something else

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Putative

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Commonly accepted

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Anachronistic

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Out of time; not chronological

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Mythopoetic

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Giving rise to myths

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Welter

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Jumble; disorder

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Succinct

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Concise; to the point

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Idiosyncrasies

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Eccentricities

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Visceral

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Dealing with crude or elemental emotions; earthy

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Quotidian

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Common place; everyday

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Insouciance

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Nonchalance

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Transmogrified

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Transformed

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Corporeality

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Material; bodily existence

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Volitant

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Able to fly; moving about

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Derelict

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Vagrant; bum

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Cumulus

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Cloud

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Furtive

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Secret

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Triumvirate

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Group of three

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Effeteness

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Marked by weakness

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Paean

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Song of praise; a tribute

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Apogee

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Culmination

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Ubiquitous

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Widespread

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Behemoth

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Something of monstrous size or power

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Troglodyte

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A member of a primitive people living in caves

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Nexus

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Center

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Rote

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Memory

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Bastion

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A bulwark; a stronghold