Danger of a Single Story and Two Kinds Flashcards by Landon Banister | Brainscape

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Impressionable

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1: suggestible
2: malleable

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Conventional

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1: Standard
2: Prosaic

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Domestic

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1: family
2: local

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Rafia

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1: Look at that Raffia!

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Patronize

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1: humiliate
2: look down upon

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Incomprehensible

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1: unintelligible
2: incoherent

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Rudyard Kipling

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Your writing is almost that of Rudyard Kipling!

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Authenticity

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1: genuineness
2: veracity

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Fleece

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1: swindle
2: hood wink

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Abject

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1: obsequious
2: groveling

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Dispossess`

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1: deprive
2: dislodge

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Ration

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1: portion
2:quantity

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Stereotypes

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1: Cliche
2: stereotypical

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Nollywood

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1: Look at his off brand Nollywood type clothes.

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Innovative

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1: contemporary
2: ingenious

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Refurbishing

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1: fix up
2: modernize

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Malign

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1: Baleful
2: malevolent

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Shirley Temple

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1: She looks like Shirley Temple

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Mission District

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1: That’s our mission district

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Peter pan

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1: He’s moving like Peter Pan

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Indignity

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1: Shame
2: humiliation

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Reproach

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1: rebuke
2: reproof

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Nairobi

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1: capital of Kenya

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Jehoshaphat

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1: King of Juda

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Foghorns

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1: A horn used to warn ships of danger

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Ed Sullivan Show

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1: and American T.V. program

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Mesmerize

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1: enthrall
2: fascinate

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Beethoven

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1: A dead music composer

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Reverie

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1: daydream
2: trance

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Discordant

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1: disagreeing
2: divergent