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Babbitt

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materialistic, complacent, and conformist businessman

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Brobdingnagian

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gigantic in size or scale

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Bumble

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arrogance or conceit of the petty dignitary

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Don Juan

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reputation for seducing women

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Don Quixote

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insanity, idealism, and thinness; foolish, mistakenly idealist; believes that he can set the world right by himself; fights against illusory evils or fails to see things how they really are

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Quixotic

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extremely idealistic, unrealistic, or impractical

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Falstaffian

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fat, jolly, and debauched

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Galahad

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chivalrous heroism, nobility, integrity, or courtesy

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Jekyll and Hyde

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someone whose personality appears to undergo an abrupt transformation, particularly from gentleness to aggressiveness or violence; changing into Mr. Hyde can be paralleled with becoming evil

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Lilliputian

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petty, pretentious, and facetious, “trivial or very small”

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Little Lord Fauntlerov

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an excessively well-mannered or elaborately dressed young boy

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Lothario

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someone who partakes in free indulgence in sensual pleasures

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Malapropism

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aptitude for misusing long words

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Milquetoast

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submissive, meek, or timid person

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Panglossian

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an optimistic person despite the circumstances

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Pickwickian

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jovial, generous, and unworldly in character and short, plump, and bespectacled in appearance

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Pollyanna

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cheerfulness in the most unpromising situations (may be perceived as naivety by others)

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Pooh-bah

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a self-important person; a person holding many offices at once

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Scrooge

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any mean or tight-fisted person

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Simon Legree

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a brutal taskmaster (plantation owner in Uncle Tom’s Cabin)

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Svengali

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someone who establishes nearly complete or total influence over someone else, mesmeric influence on another; usually for a sinister purpose

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Tartuffe

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a religious hypocrite or a hypocritical pretender to excellence of any kind

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Uncle Tom

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black man who has behavior that is considered to be submissively servile to whites; anyone who betrays social allegiances

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Uriah Heep

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obsequious and false humility (or alluded to the gesture of him rubbing his hands together)

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Walter Mitty
someone who lives in a fantasy world, especially someone who has lost touch with reality
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Yahoo
a course, loutish, or rowdy person, or one who engages in wanton vandalism; a rude, noisy, or violent person
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Absalom
the ultimate rebellious son
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Alpha and Omega
the beginning and the end; the essence or most important features
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Cain
murderer, "mark of Cain"- sign of a murderer, "raise Cain"- cause trouble or commotion
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Daniel
courage; someone who faces great danger without material protection
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David & Bathsheba
David sleeps with Bathsheba, Uriah's wife. David sends Uriah into the front line of battle to get killed. Bathsheba mourns for a bit and then marries David.
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Eye of the Needle Filthy Lucre
distasteful money
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Goliath
a person or thing of enormous size or strength
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Handwriting on the Wall
a herald of doom
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Ishmael
an outcast
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Jacob
a patient lover OR something pleasurable or immediately satisfying OR someone who tricks or deceives others to gain what he wants
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Job
humbleness, forbearance
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Job's comforter
someone who tries to provide comfort but has the opposite effect
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Jonah
someone who has survived a difficult or dangerous situation
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Judas
one who betrays a friend, a "Judas kiss" is an act of betrayal
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King Ahab and Jezebel
wickedness, especially the offense of honoring pagan gods
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Manna
something beneficial that is provided unexpectedly or opportunely (spiritual nourishment)
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Original Sin
The Fall (of man), original sin of Adam and Eve
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Pearl of Great Price
alludes to those who are searching for something of great value
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Philistine
people who are indifferent to culture and the arts and have uncultivated tastes
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Prodigal Son
a repentant sinner OR returned wanderer OR wasteful extravagance (prodigal meaning)
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Ruth and Naomi
epitome of loyalty and devotion
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Samson and Delilah
Samson's hair can be alluded to when referring to a powerful person rendered vulnerable (Delilah found his Achilles heel!)
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Scapegoat
a person who takes the blame for the wrongs of others
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Sepulcher
a burial vault
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Sodom and Gomorrah
depravity and wickedness
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Solomon
wisdom and justice
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Twelve Tribes of Israel
twelve kin groups of ancient Israel, each traditionally descended from one of the 12 sons of Jacob
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Atilla the Hun
savagery
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Berserk
wild or frenzied
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Bowdlerize
remove "improper or offensive" material, which often causes the text to lose meaning
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Casanova
Italian, promiscuous love affairs
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Chauvinist
blind or absurd devotion to a leader, exaggerated or unreasonable partisanship to a group, someone who believes in the superiority of his/her own kind
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Derrick
gallows/framework/hangman
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Donnybrook
uproar or disorder
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El Dorado
"the Gilded One", a place of fabulous wealth
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Hackney
a horse or pony, a horse-drawn vehicle
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Horatio Alger
rags to riches, adventure stories for boys
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Laconic
using very few words, paralleled with "Sparta"
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Limerick
nonsense verse of 5 lines
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Machiavellian
deceit, cunning, scheming in pursuit of personal power
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Nostradamus
foretelling prominent global events
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Sardonic
bitter or scornful laughter
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Shanghai
to compel someone to do something, especially by fraud or force
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Spartan
characterized by austerity or lack of comfort for luxury
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Stonewall
to hinder by delaying tactics
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Swiftian
satirical
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Sybaritic
fond of sensuous luxury or pleasure; self-indulgent
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Thespian
related to drama or acting
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Uncle Sam
a personification of the federal government or the citizens of the US
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Wagnerian
a term applied to anything that evokes the dramatic music, storms, and strong emotions depicted in Wagner's operas
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Waterloo
a decisive or final defeat or setback

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