unit 6 Flashcards

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Avant-garde

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Adjective
Relating to experimental, high concept artistic, musical, or literally material

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Bildungsroman

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Noun
a type of novel concerned with the education and development of a young protagonist

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Bolshevik

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Noun
A member of the communist party

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Intelligentsia

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Noun
Intellectuals who form an artistic, social, or political group of elites

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Putsch

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Noun
An attempt to overthrow a government, especially one that depends upon suddenness and speed

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Quid Pro Quo

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Noun phrase
a favor or advantage granted or expected in return for something
doing a favor for someone and expecting something in return

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Bureaucracy

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Noun
A body of non elected government officials that is often characterized by excessive red tape and routine

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Capitulate

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Verb
To give up. Surrender

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Carnage

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Noun
The slaughter of a great number of people. as in battle. massacre

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Catharsis

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Noun
purging the emotions or relieving emotional tensions. especially through certain kinds of art

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Degenerate

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Verb
To diminish in quality, especially from a former state of coherence, balance and integrity
noun
A person who has declined as in morals or characters from a type or standard, considered normal
adjective
having fallen below normal or desirable level, especially in physical or moral qualities 

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emasculate

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verb
to make a man feel less masculine. to deprive a man of his mail strength role

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fatalism

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noun
The acceptance of events as an inevitable. Submission to fate.

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14
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flagellate

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verb
to whip

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histrionics

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noun
An insincere or exaggerated expression of emotion,dramatics

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inure

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verb
to become a custom to hardship, difficulty, pain(follows by to)

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precocious

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referring to a child, who is unusually advanced or mature, in mental development, giving his or her age

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procure

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verb
to obtain via particular care and effort

19
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brass knuckles

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noun
A band of metal with four holes that fits over the upper fingers, and that is gripped when a fist is made, used for increasing the effect of a blow with the fist

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Proletariat

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noun
the laboring class; especially within context of communism ideology