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Quiz friday Flashcards

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An explanation; interpretation, this is often used synonymous (correspond to a rhetorical analysis)

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Explication

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Sentence commanding

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Imperative tone

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Questioning; again this can be a “tone” word

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Interrogative

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Expressing enthusiasm or excitement

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Exclamatory

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Declaring a statement or fact

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Declarative

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“To be” verbs “to come” “to show” “to dance” ; knowing this helps with the explication of a piece of writing as writers use this imperatively

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Infinitives

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Not to be appeased, mollified, or pacified; inexorable

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Implacable

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To become milder; lessen in severity

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Mitigate

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Not following any one system, as of philosophy, medicine, etc, but selecting and using what are considered the best elements of all systems

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Eclectic

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The disgrace or reproach incurred by conduct considered outrageously shameful

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Opprobrium

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Deviating from the ordinary, usual, or normal type; exceptional; abnormal

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Aberrant

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To hinder, block or thwart

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Stymie

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Insatiable greed for riches; inordinate, miserly desire to gain and hoard wealth

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Avarice

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Having the polish and suavity regards as characteristics of sophisticated social life in major cities. Reflecting elegance, sophistication

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Urbane

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Free from reserve, restraint, or dissimulation;candid; sincere; artless; innocent; naive; Frank; straightforwardness; guileless

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Ingenuous

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Burdensome, oppressive, or troublesome; causing hardships

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Onerous

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Noun- cautious reserve in speech; ability to make responsible decisions

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Discretion

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Verb- to grow rapidly or flourish

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Burgeon

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Noun- a universally recognize principle. Adj.- axiomatic

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Axiom

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Adj.- existing everywhere at the same time; constantly encountered; widespread

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Ubiquitous

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Verb-to undeceive; to set right

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Disabuse

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Adj.- violating accepted dogma or convention

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Heretical

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Verb- to defame; to characterize harshly

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Vilify

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Adj- expressing a rigid opinion based on unproved or improvable principles

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Dogmatic

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Adj- recurrent through the year or many years; happening repeatedly

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Perennial

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Adj- lethargic; sluggish; dormant

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Torpid

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Noun- the quality of being generously noble in mind and heart, especially in forgiving

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Magnanimity

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Adj- fierce and cruel; eager to fight

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Truculent

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Adj-departing from norms or conventions

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Eccentric

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Adj- complex or complicated

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Convoluted

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pompous; grandiloquent; ranting

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Bombastic

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verb- to obstruct or block

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Occlude

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Adj- extremely talkative

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Loquacious

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34
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Noun- one who hates all other humans

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Misanthrope

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Noun- devotion to pleasurable pursuits, especially to the pleasures of the senses

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Hedonism

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36
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to depart suddenly and secretly, as for the purpose of escaping arrest

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Abscond

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to mix or blend together in a homogenous body

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Amalgamate

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of doubtful authority or authenticity

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Apocryphal

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omen, predicting, prognostication

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Augury

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fit to be eaten, palatable, victual

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Comestible

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a state of disuse or inactivity

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Desuetude

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transparent

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Diaphanous

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a formal or discriminating expression of praise

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Encomium

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flimsy

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Gossamer

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an image-breaker

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Iconoclast

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foolishly and tearfully affectionate

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Maudlin

47
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use of many words without necessity

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Verbiage

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to overwhelm with wordy abuse

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Vituperate

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offensive or disgusting; also harmful, unwholesome

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Noisome

50
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dealing with matters difficult to be understood

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Abstruse

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on the point of dying

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Moribund

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the lowest point

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Nadir

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a sense of injury

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Umbrage

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making a loud outcry

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Vociferous

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lustful

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Lascivious

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chivalrous or romantic to a ridiculous or extravagant degree

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Quixotic

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deviation from a right, customary, or prescribed course

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Aberration

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quickness of intellectual insight, or discernment, keenness of discrimination

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Acumen

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anything forbidden, as by social usage

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Anathema

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harshness or roughness of temper

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Asperity

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full of offensive and aggressive self-conceit

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Bumptious

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rebellious

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Contumacious

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very-learned

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Erudite

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nonchalant

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Insouciant

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given to shedding tears

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Lachrymose

66
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talkative

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Loquacious

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alluring by false

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Meretricious

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wicked in the extreme

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Nefarious

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calm and peaceful

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Halcyon

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outdated; associated with an earlier, perhaps more primitive, time

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Archaic

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stillness; motionlessness; quality of being at rest

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Quiescence

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the profession or principles of teaching, or instructing

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Pedagogy

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exhibiting a fawning attentiveness

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Obsequious

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unyielding; hardhearted; intractable

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Obdurate

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marked by extreme calm, impassivity, and steadiness

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Imperturbable

76
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revealing no emotion

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Impassive

77
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a song or hymn of praise and thanksgiving… no association to the word Peon…

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Paean

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lacking sharpness of intellect; not clear or precise in thought or expression

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Obtuse

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rustic and pastoral; characteristic of rural areas and their inhabitants

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Bucolic

80
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to question or oppose

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Demur

81
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to reduce purity by combining with inferior ingredients

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Adulterate

82
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indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain; steadfast

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Stoic

83
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tending to disappear like vapor; vanishing

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Evanescent

84
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to make worse or more severe

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Exacerbate

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harmful; injurious

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Noxious

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when one kind of sensory stimulus evokes the subjective experience of another. In lit., the words refers to the practice of associating two or more different senses in the same image

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Synesthesia

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a declaration that is made emphatically ( as if no supporting evidence were necessary)

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Assertion

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a literary device used by writers for a prominent character in a play or book that has characteristics opposite to that of a convenient hero. The protagonist is generally admired for his bravery, strength, charm or ingenuity, while an anti-hero is typically clumsy, unsolicited, unskilled, and has both good and bad qualities.

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Anti-hero

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an element of a culture or system of behavior that may be considered to be passed from one individual to another by non genetic means, especially imitation; a humorous image, video, piece of text that is copied and spread rapidly by internet users

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Meme

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definition or classification/facts-inferences about past, present, or future

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Claims of Fact

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such claims that tend to make value judgements, resolve conflicts between value/quasi-policy. The proof for such a claim is not as solid as claims of fact.

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Claims of Value

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