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Perfidy

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Treacherousness, faithlessness. In war, raising the white flag to deceive and breaking truces.

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Palimpsest

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A manuscript that has been written on more than once; reused paper

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Anschaulichkeit

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Visualization through pictures or mechanical models

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Anschauung

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Intuition gained from pictures or past visualization

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Thema

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Thesis

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Corpuscular

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Pertaining to small particles.

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Corpuscles

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Small particles.

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Inchoate

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In beginning stages; imperfectly formed; undeveloped

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Phantasmagoria

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A fantastic sequence of loosely associated events or scenes. Feverish association as if a dream.

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prägnanz

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The law of simplicity; the brain’s tendency to simplify complex shapes into intuitive components. Freud.

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Perfunctory

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Done routinely and with little care.

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Cathexis

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Nexus of emotional investment.

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Opprobium

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Something that brings disgrace

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Polemic

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A deliberately controversial argument; a tactic used to deliberately undermine the opponent.

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Abrogate

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To abolish by decree or official act

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Concomitant

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Contemporary; attendant

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Fifth column

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A clandestine subversive organization working within a country to further an invading enemy’s military and political aims.

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la mission civilisatrice

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The rationale for imperialism describing a policy of ‘education’ or ‘Westernization’ towards natives.

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Vivication

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Level of vitality; awakeness

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Opprobium

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Disgrace from shameful conduct.

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Quisling

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A traitor

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Kissingen Dictation

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Otto von Bismarck’s dictation asserting fear of secret coalitions and the goal to form alliances with adjacent European powers.

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23
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ff.

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A notation used in older books. A citation from the book itself.

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Civis Romanus sum

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“I am a Roman citizen”. A quote from Cicero calling for special Roman rights.

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Parataxis

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A pitched battle.

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Desultory

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Moving from one thing to another, disconnected, sporadic and random.

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Katalepsis

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Possession; the moment when terror takes over the mind

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Arosis

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Harrowing; a flurry of insults designed to harangue

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29
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Andreia

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Manly valor

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30
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Krypteia

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Secret society sp. Spartan.

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31
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ius ad bellum

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Justification for war

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32
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Casus foederis

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Reason for alliance

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33
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Abjure

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To repudiate

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34
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Belles lettres

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“Beautiful words”- writing that is an end to itself.

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35
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Nonperiel

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Unrivaled

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36
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Jouissance

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The painful result of transgressing pleasure regulation. Lacan.

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Objet petit a

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The unattainable object of desire. Lacan

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38
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Phreatic

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Relating to or denoting underground water beyond saturation (under the water table)

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Stalagmite

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Floor of cave

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40
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Sine qua non

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Absolutely indispensable.

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41
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Madrassah

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A Muslim school for kids in Bangladesh and Pakistan

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42
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Exigency

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An urgent need

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43
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Meliorism

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The belief that progress can be tangible and that humans may contradict ‘the law of the animals’.

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44
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Gnosis

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Knowledge

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45
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Ataraxia

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Absence of fear

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46
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Epicureanism

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A movement dictating that there is no higher power and that one’s best aims is to live in a state of modest pleasure.

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Peremptory

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(Of a person’s mannerisms) Brisk, brusque, demanding immediate attention.

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Ebullient

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Enthusiastic and full of energy

49
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Amphibology

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An ambiguous statement

50
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Holon

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A subassembly that is in of itself complete.

51
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Latifunda

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A large landed estate.

52
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Seignurial

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Manorial

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Querie

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Rural uprising

54
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Millenerialism

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The belief that there is a coming fundamental change to society.

55
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Strident

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Creaking, harsh, grating

56
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Truculent

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Defiant; quick to fight

57
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Nominative (declension)

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The subject of the sentence- that which is doing the action

58
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Vocative (declension)

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A subject being addressed - direct address

59
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Accusative (declension)

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The subject of the action. In English, we have me/him/her/us

60
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Genitive (declension)

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A noun modifying another noun indicating attributional transfer (his/hers, King’s Road)

61
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Dative (declension)

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Indicating the beneficiary of an action (Marcus got Jennifer a drink)

62
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Ablative (declension)

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Indicating motion away from something

63
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Locative (declension)

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Indicates location of something.

64
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Voluble

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Speaking fluently, easily, without stopping.

65
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Fatuous

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Silly; pointless

66
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Placket

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An opening or slit in a garment

67
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Prurient

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Having or encouraging obsessive tendencies about having sex

68
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Jejune

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Naive, superfluous, and simplistic

69
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Oleagnous

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Having properties of oil

70
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emollient

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Soft and smooth

71
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Gelid

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Icy; fridgid

72
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Redolent

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Suggestive of or reminiscent of, fragrant and sweet smelling

73
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Urbane

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Polite, elegant

74
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Bolide

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Usually a very bright meteor, but refers to any exploding body as bright as the moon.

75
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Saturnine

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Slow and gloomy

76
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Pullutate

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To sprout, germinate, or freely reproduce.

77
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Semipiternal

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Eternal

78
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Ostler

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Someone who takes care of mules, horses, or trains

79
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Theopneustia

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Breath of god

80
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Marmoreal

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Like marble

81
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Telluric

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Of the earth

82
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Libertine

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Someone who deliberately spurns social mores, especially in the sense of responsibility or sexual restraint. Hedonism as a philosophy.

83
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Lothario

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An unscrupulous seducer of women.

84
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Misprision

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Improper performance of official duty; concealment of felony by a third party; seditious conduct

85
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Moribund

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Approaching death

86
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Catachresis

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The misapplication of a word or phrase, as the use of blatant to mean flagrant; the use of a strained figure of speech.

87
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Esurient

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Hungry, ravenous, eager

88
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Esurine

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Causing hunger, eating or corroding

89
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Salutary

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Beneficial to health, wholesome

90
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Missal

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Liturgical book for the celebration of mass

91
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Abeyance

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The state of being temporarily set aside or in suspension.

92
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Oneiric

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Relating to dreams

93
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Propitation

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The act of gaining or regaining goodwill

94
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facile

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Easy; do-able

95
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Inimical

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Cold, antagonistic, acting like an enemy

96
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Garret

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Attic or watchtower, usually with steepled roof

97
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Efface

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To wipe out, erase, or render onesself invisible.

98
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Emic and etic

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Insider’s and outsider’s perspective, respectfully, used as archaeocultural study. For instance, cultural meanings vs cultural behaviors.

99
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Extradiegetic

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The part of a story that is outside the story (e.g. narrator)

100
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Diegetic

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Level of a story that has characters, plot, and action.

101
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Metadiegetic

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The ‘meta’ part of a story, a tale in a tale.

102
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Paratext

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Text around “the text” in the form of author’s notes, translation remarks, and marginalia.

103
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Deneument

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The final act of a play when the plot becomes realized, the outcome

104
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Autocthon

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Something that has not moved from where it was made; aboriginal

105
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Endonym

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A native name for a group of people. Also known as autonym.

106
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Exonym

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A non-native name for a group of people. Also known as xenonym.

107
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Epigram

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A short, concise idea expressing a single statement.

108
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Teleology

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Explanation of phenomena by the purposes they serve rather than their causes

109
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Indigence

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A state of extreme poverty

110
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Epicure

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Someone of refined taste; used to sensuous living.

111
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Facile

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Easy; superficial

112
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Atavist

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Relating to or characterized by an appeal to the ancients

113
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euhemerize

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When a historical figure is turned into a mythological figure

114
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Anthropoathism

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The attribution of human emotions to a god

115
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Enthymeme

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An argument where one’s point is not explicitly stated

116
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Syllogism

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A rhetorical statement of the structure A->B, B->C, therefore A->C.

117
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Confute

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To decisively refute.

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