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Midyear Review Flashcards

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Amorous (adj.)

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Showing or expressing love

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Acerbic (adj.)

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Harsh or severe, as of temper or expression

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Avaricious (adj.)

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Characterized by greedy

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Convivial (adj.)

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Friendly; agreeable

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Credulous (adj.)

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Willing to believe or trust too readily

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Foibles (n.)

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Slight flaw or defect

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Pernicious (adj.)

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Causing insidious harm

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Superfluous (adj.)

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Being more than is sufficient or required; excessive

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Degrade (v.)

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To reduce (someone) to a lower rank

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Destitution (n.)

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Utter poverty

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Elude (v.)

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To avoid or escape by speed, cleverness, trickery

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Interminable (adj.)

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Incapable of being terminated; unending

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Itinerancy (n.)

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The act of traveling from place to place

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Lethargic (adj.)

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Drowsy; sluggish

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Officious (adj.)

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Objectionably aggressive in offering one’s unrequested services, or help

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Panacea (n.)

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A remedy for all disease or ills; cure-all

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Sanctimonious (adj.)

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Making a hypocritical show of religious devotion

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Sagacious (adj.)

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Having or showing acute mental discernment and keen practical sense

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Sardonic (adj.)

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Mocking; cynical; sneering

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Synesthesia (n.)

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Descriptions of one kind of sensation in terms of another; color attributed to sounds, bright sounds, sounds to odors

Ex: bright sounds, sweet music

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Vilify (v.)

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To speak ill of; defame; slander

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Absalom

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Alludes to paternal grief and to a lost and faithless son

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Atalanta

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The archetype of speed, strength and daring foiled by a trick of the intellect

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Cassandra

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Represents an accurate but unheeded prophet of doom

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Damocle, sword of

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The term indicates impending disaster

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Nirvana

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Ideal condition of harmony

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Procrustes

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The term “Procrustean bed” connotes a rigid standard to which exact conformity is enforced

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Prometheus

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The champion of men against the gods

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Proteus

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Protean means versatile

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Pyrrhus

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A Pyrrhic victory is one that was won at much too high a price

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Satyrs

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The satyr play treated serious matters in a grotesquely comic way

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Sisyphus

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He serves as a constant metaphor for the never-ending struggle to complete one’s task, only to be thwarted by still more hurdles

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Abraham and Isaac

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  • Symbolic of man’s willingness to make the ultimate sacrifice to demonstrate his faith and trust in God
  • Symbolic of the idea that faith and trust in God shall be rewarded.
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Daniel

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“Read the handwriting in the wall”

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Heap coals of fire

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“Be kind to your enemy”

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Jacob and Esau

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A literary reference to the pair may allude to discord between siblings, to the politics of the birthright, or to the idea of the fortunate or favored son

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Jezebel

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A seductive woman who leads the hero astray

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Philistines

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Connotes an ignorant, crude, and rude person lacking in culture

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Ruth

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Her intertribal marriage to Boaz also represents openness to the world

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Sodom and Gomorrah

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Symbols of debauchery

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Tower of Babel

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The diversity of languages in the world

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Cast the first stone

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Warning against hypocrisy

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Four horsemen of the apocalypse

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Symbolic of powerful destructive forces

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Garden of Gethsemane

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A place of great physical or psychological suffering

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Mammon

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Personifies the evils of greed and wealth

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Pharisees

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A negative connotation; hypocrites

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Thane

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A warrior who followed his lord, member of the contraries

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Comitatus

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Loyalty to the chosen leader

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Gleeman

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A minstrel singer

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A scop

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A poet or story teller

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Caesura

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A pause in a line of verse, usually near the middle, used to add variety to a regular beat

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In medias res

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In the middle of things

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Kenning

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A metaphorical compound word

Ex:
King - ring giver
Rough sea - whale road
Calm sea - swan road

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Wyrd

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Word used by Anglo-Saxons to represent one’s lot in life; personal fame attained through heroic action

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