Vocabulary Unit 1 Lesson 6, 7, 9 Flashcards

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Adonis

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Exceptionally handsome young man

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Aegis

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Sponsorship, protection
ex: the science fair was staged under the aegis of Microsoft

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Bacchanal

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“Bacchanal and the Bottle”
A drunken reveler, festival with wine honoring god of wine (Bacchus)

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3
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Cassandra

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“Cassandra’s Clear vision”
One who prophesies doom or disaster

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4
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Cornucopia

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Abundance, horn of plenty

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5
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Cupidity

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Excessive desire for wealth

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6
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Erotic

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Concerning sexual love and desire

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7
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Herculean

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Tremendously difficult and demanding; resembling Hercules in size, power, and courage.

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8
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Hydra

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A persistent or many-sided problem that presents new obstacles as soon as old ones are solved

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9
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Iridescent

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Shimmery

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10
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Narcissism

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Excessive admiration of oneself

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11
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Odyssey

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Long series of wanderings

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12
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Majestic; incomporaby superior

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13
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Palladium

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Safeguard or guarantee of the integrity of social institutions

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14
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Phoenix

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A person or thing of peerless beauty of excellence

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15
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Aberrant

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“Atypical”
deviating from what is normal or typical

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16
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Anthropomorphism

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Attributing human shape to gods, object, animals

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16
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Archetype

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ProtoTYPE
Model

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17
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Authoritarian

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Unquestioning obedience to authority
Rejects individual freedom of judgment and action

18
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Catharsis

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Releasing of emotions by bringing them to consciousness

19
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Demography

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Science of vital statistics

20
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Epidemiology

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Branch of medicine that investigates the cases and controls of epidemics/diseases

21
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Euthanasia

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Method of causing death painlessly

22
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Extrovert

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Outgoing

23
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Psychic

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Beyond natural or known physical processes

24
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Psychopath

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Person afflicted with a mental disorder

25
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Psychotherapy

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Forms of mental treatment to cure nervous disorders

26
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Schizophrenia

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Mental disorder characterized by delusions of persecution and omnipotence

27
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Subliminal

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Below the threshold of conscious perception

28
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Trauma

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Emotional experience that has a lasting psychic effect

29
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Anachronism

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Anything that is out place in time

30
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Anon

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Soon, shortly

31
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Antebellum

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Before the war, especially before the American Civil War

32
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Antediluvian

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Old-fashioned

33
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Atavism

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“Father of a great-grandfather”
Reversion to a primitive type

34
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Augury

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Art of prophecy, an omen

35
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Biennial

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Happening every two years

36
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Chronology

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Arrangement of events in time

37
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Diurnal

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Daily, of the daytime

38
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Eon

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Indefinite period of time

39
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Ephemeral

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“Ephemeral memories are like bubbles - Fleeting and Pop!”

Short-lived

40
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Epoch

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époque
Noteworthy period

41
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Generation

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Period of time between birth of one group and its offspring

42
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Score

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Twenty years

43
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Tercentenary

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Period of 300 years