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vocab set 2 Flashcards

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apocalyptic

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resembling the end of the world

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arbitrary

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determined by random chance

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cataclysmic

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severely destructive

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catatonic

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of or in an immobile or unresponsive stupor

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clandestine

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kept secret or done secretively

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egregious

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outrageously bad

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ghastly

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causing great horror or fear

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moribund

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being on the point of death

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inexorable

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impossible to stop or prevent

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plight

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a dangerous, difficult, or otherwise unfortunate situation

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pall

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a figurative covering associated with despair

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surreal

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having an oddly dream-like quality

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ubiquitous

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present, appearing or found everywhere

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incorrigible

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incapable of being reformed

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verisimilitude

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the appearance of being true or real

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insidious

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proceeding in a gradual, subtle way, but with harmful effects

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disillusionment

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freed from false beliefs and illusions

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automaton

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a person who acts in a mechanical or apathetic way

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resilience

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an occurrence of rebounding or bouncing back

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emancipate

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to set free, especially from social, legal, or political restrictions

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enjambement

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a line of poetry that continues into the next line without a stop or pause

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epigraph

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a quotation at the beginning of a text that introduces the larger themes of the text

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existentialism

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a 20th-century philosophy that says that people are completely free and responsible for what they make of themselves.

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homoioptoton

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repetition of word endings within a line

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litote

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an understatement for emphasis that is the negative opposite of what it means

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