Everyday Learning ☺️ Flashcards

(44 cards)

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perseverate

A

to keep going

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2
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Concur

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Agree

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3
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Accolade

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An award

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4
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Adulation

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Exessive praise

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5
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Adept

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Skilled

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6
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Candour

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Honesty and Openness

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7
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Caveat

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A warning

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8
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Quintessential

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Representing the most perfect of a class

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9
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Misnomer

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A wrong or inaccurate use of a term

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10
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Brevity

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Exact and precise use of words

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11
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Perfunctory

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A task or action carried out without genuine effort

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12
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Ubiquitous

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Something found everywhere at the same time

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13
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Capricious

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Something unpredictable in mood or behaviour

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14
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Gregarious

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Sociable

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15
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Who painted ‘The Creation of Adam?’

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Michaelangelo

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16
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What is earth composed of?

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Nitrogen, Oxygen, Argon and Carbon Dioxide

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17
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What is a Peninsula?

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A landform surrounded by water

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18
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What is magma?

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Lava underneath the earth’s surface

19
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What supercontinent broke apart?

20
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Loquacious

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Adjective: Talks a lot

21
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Brusque

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Short and rude, abrupt

22
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Classical Style

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A post and beam structure, arches

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Byzantine Style

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Romanesque Style

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Gothic Style
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Renaissance Style
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Baroque Style
Grandeur, Dramatic Paintings, Ornate. Catholics displayed their power.
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Rococo Style
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Neoclacissism
Symmetry, straight lines, flat surfaces.
30
Eclecticism
31
Modernism
32
Bauhaus
Minimalist, assymetry, flat roofs
33
Affable
Friendly, good natured, easy to talk to
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Boorish
Insensitive
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Contumacious
Stubbornly disobedient
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Endemic
Regularly occurring within a community
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Mellifluous
Music that's captivating and pleasant to hear
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Pantheism
The belief that God and the universe are the same thing
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Stoicism
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Dualistic Theism
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Panentheism
The belief that God is in everything and everything is in God
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Pantheism
The belief that God is everything and everything is God
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Eudaimonia
A positive and divine state of being
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Providencially
Happened just at the right time, without having been planned