final exam Flashcards

(33 cards)

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aversion

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strong or fixed dislike

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manifest

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clear uderstanding

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incessant

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continuing without interruption, perpetual

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tumultuous

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commotion, violent and noisy

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ethereal

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pertaining to the upper rejous of space

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malign

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harmful, evil

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myriad

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almost beyond counting

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grotesque

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strange, absurd

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pious

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devoted to ones religion

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inert

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sluggish, inactive

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trepidation

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anxious uncertanity

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12
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mainifold

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of many varieties, many

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effete

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worn out (ideas), outdated

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imperiously

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in a high, haughty (inappropriately royal) manner

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temporal

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worldly, pertaining to time

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pertinet

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relevant, appropriate, in meeting a need or interest

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perennial

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lasting for a long time, plants that live season after season

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impervious

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not being influenced by an idea or not allowing anything to pass through physically (light unable to pass through a window shade)

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encumber

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to hinder, to burden

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obliquely

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slanted (physical) or indirectly stated

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admonish

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blithe

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happy or joyous, causal

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elude

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evade or escape from in a cunning or skillful way

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occult

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relating to supernatural, mystical, or magic

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chafe
become annoyed or impatient because or restriction or inconveince
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indubitably
undoubtfuly
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expartriate
a person living outside their native country
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sublime
deserving of excellence, grandeur, or becoming elevate to a high degree of moral or spiritual excellence
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transcedentalism
romanticism +transparent eyeball + philosophy of life and spiritual, secular religion [walt-witman]
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romanticism
nature, individual, self-reliance, instincts/feelings, unity of life, music as language of feelings
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realism
literary outlook on reality that was a response to the civil war and its aftermath, looks at harsh realities of war, pain and suffering, man is victum
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natrualism
man is trapped by his instincts, genes, and family upbringing
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modernism
response to WWI, wasteland, the individual is isolate with no sense of personal or moral sense of focus