Gen Ed Flashcards
(261 cards)
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Abase
A
Demoted
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Despotic
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Cruel
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Persiflage
A
Praise Glowingly
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Desterity
A
Manual skills
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Amorphous
A
Shapeless
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Penchant
A
Fondness
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Pulchritude
A
Loveliness
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Transmuted
A
Change
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Transcendental
A
Supernatural
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Rancor
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Bitterness
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Carnal
A
Worldly
12
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Mundane
A
Ordinary
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Profanity
A
Obscenity
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Apocalyptic
A
Prophetic
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Impertinent
A
Irrelevant
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Loquacious
A
Verbose
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Voracious
A
Eager
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Abandoned
A
Left Behind
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Conflagration
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Large Fire
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Aplomb
A
Composure or Relax
21
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Volition
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Will/ Power to Make Choices
22
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Esoteric
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Understandable by Few
23
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Queue
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Line
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Baduy
A
Awkward looking
25
Docile
Easy to Manage
26
Euphoria
State of Well Being
27
Euphoria
State of Well Being
28
Erudite
Learned
29
Erzats
Artificial.
30
Avowal
Open Declaration/Acknowledgement
31
Collocation
Gathering
32
Blizzard
Severe Snowstorm
33
Farce
Violent horseplay
34
Satire
Ridicule
35
At sixes and Sevens
State of Confusion
36
Lost One
Past Lover
37
Storm in a Teacup
Big fuss about a small problem
38
Parsimonious
Stingy
39
First Rate
Excellent
40
Lucid
Clear Thinking
41
Faust
True to Life Person Character
42
Inadmissible
Not Acceptable
43
Warlock
Male Witch
44
Ignominicusful
Shameful
45
Culpable
Guilty
46
Emanate
Originate/Emerge
47
Erratic
Unpredictable/Irregular
48
Conspicuous
Attracting Attention
49
Shilly
Indecisive
50
Wary
Cautious/Careful
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Credulous
Gullible
52
Lethargic
Lacking Interest
53
Euphoria
Extreme Pleasure
54
Divination
Foretelling
55
Salient
Important
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Intrepid
Very brave
57
Emancipation
To be set free
58
Benevolent
Kind
59
Divisive
Kanya kanya
60
Depravity
Viciousness
61
Emulate
Imitate
62
Imminent
To happen
63
Eminent
High Standing
64
Epiphany
Insight
65
Sine qua non
Indispensable
66
Soiree
Evening party
67
Connoisseur
Expert in taste
68
Chauffeur
Driver
69
Mesdames
Plural of Madame
70
Renaissance
Rebirth
71
Acapella
Solo singing without accompaniment
72
Alter Ego
Close/Inseparable friend
73
Amor con amor se paga
Love Begets Love
74
Caveat Emptor
Let the buyer decide
75
Ad nauseum
Excessively eager
76
Ad Hominem
Personal Attacks
77
Coup de Grace
Death Blow
78
In Medias Res
In the midst of things
79
Carpe diem
Enjoy the pleasure of the moment/grasp pleasure while you can
80
Father of Printing
Johannes Gutenberg
81
Father of English Essay
Francis Bacon
82
Greatest English/sonnet writer
- bard of avon
William Shakespeare
83
Father of English Lit
- Morning Star of English Lit
Geoffrey Chaucer
84
Father of Horror
Detective Stories
Edgar Allan Poe
85
Foremost French short story writer
Guy de Maupassant
86
- Mythical Geographer
- Vivid Description
Homer
87
Greatest Orator
Cicero
88
Greatest Lyric Poem
Psalms of King David
89
Indian National Poety
1st Asian Nobel Prize Lit
Rabindranath Tagore
90
India’s Shakespeare
Kalidasa
91
Italian Sonnet
Petrarch
92
Father of English Prose
William Tyndale
93
Wrote his last novel in crayon
James Joyce
94
Father of Dramatic Criticism
Aristotle
95
Most modern of moderns
Eugene O’ neill
96
Recited the gift outright
Robert Frost
97
Nobel Prize Literature 1919
Carl F.G Spitteler
98
Recipient of Literature Nobel Prize 1954
Ernest Hemingway
99
Historian of the Revolution
Clemente Zulueta
100
1st Palanca Awardee for Play
Dionisio Salazar
101
Victorian Era Writer
Elizabeth Browning
102
Greatest Chinese Poet before the Revolution
Li Po
103
Solves sphinx riddle
Oedipus
104
Goddess of ph poetry
Ophelia Demalanta
105
1st palanca awardee for short story
Genoveva edroza matute
106
1st poetess of ph
Leona Florentino
107
Most outstanding among Filipino playwrights
Wilfredo ma Guerrero
108
Advocate of art for art’s sake; comma poet
Jose Garcia Villa
109
First filipino awarded, national artist for historical lit. ( 1997 )
Carlos Quirino
110
Literary colosus of the visayas
Angel magahum
111
first filipino write English language novel
Zolio galang
112
Hispanic filipino culture writer
Nick joaquin
113
filipino comic strip writer; create filipino superheroes & comic book characters
Carlo j caparas
114
made her mark in ph lit
Paz m. benetiz
115
honest realism; uncommon grit and strength
Lualhati Bautista
116
father of filipino newspapers
Pascual Poblete
117
filipino tutor of Spanish king
Pedro serrano laktaw
118
ask not what America...
John f. kenedy
119
golden age of lit. prod.
Reign of queen Elizabeth
120
eccentric use punctuation; dashes liberally
Emily Dickinson
121
ph poet snubbed by huseng sisiw
Balagtas
122
1 literary demo in ph
Book burning
123
the most Greek of all gods;lord of silver bow;archer god
Apollo
124
Mesopotamian great hero; son of King Uruk and Nisun
Gilgamesh
125
roman goddess of wisdom
Minerva
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roman god of ph. Oldest drug store
Messenger
127
4 heads,faces,and arms; supreme eternal deity
Brahma
128
preserver of the universe
Vishnu
129
Destroyer
Shiva
130
sculptor fell inlove the thing he made
Pygmalion
131
Hero in hudhud
Aliguyon
132
dwarfs, jotnar, troll
Giants
133
symbol of purity of grace;only captured by virgin
Unicorns
134
1st Oldest Epic
Gilgamesh
135
Egyptian Writing
Calligraphy
136
collection of stories
1001 arabian nights
137
longest epic
Mahabharata
138
medieval german epic
Nibelungenlied
139
collection of Indian hyms
Rig veda
140
collection of I.texts
Upanishad
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collection of I. fables
Panchantra
142
drama of Japanese bourgeoisie
Kabuki
143
Ifugao epic
Hudhud
144
first social novel by p. paterno
Ninay
145
won palanca award by GE Matute
Kwento ni Mabuti
146
- Samuel clemens
Mark Twain
147
Mary ann evans
George Elliot
148
J.K Rowling
Robert Galbraith
149
Poet of Love
Jose Corazon de jesus
150
W/meter no rhyme
Blank verse
151
Rural
Pastoral
152
Nature
31
5, 7, 5, 7, 7
Tanka
153
most beautiful women; cause trojan war; daughter of zeus
Helen of Troy
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how my brother leon....
Manuel argilla
155
a child of sorrow
Zoilo Galang
156
kwento ni Mabuti
Matute
157
isang dipang langit
Amado Hernandez
158
walang sugat
Severino Reyes
159
banaag at sikat
Lope k santos
160
biag ni lam- ang
Pedro bukaneg
161
Magnificence
Estrella Alfon
162
Small key, desire, sunset
Paz Lotarena
163
The wedding dance
Amador Daguio
164
Man Songs, Footnote to Youth,
Jose Garcia Villa
165
The Visitation of the Gods
People in the War,
Gilda Cordero-Fernando -
166
The Woman Who Had Two Navels
Summer Solstice
Nick Joaquin
167
America is in the Heart, The Power of the People,
Carlos Bulosan
168
American influence,
The Man Who Looked Like Robert Taylor
Bienvenido Santos
169
the great Malayan
Carlos Quirino
170
ang sigalot
Juan Crisostomo sotto
171
Declaration of PH Independence
Ambrosio Bautista
172
Poems in Spanish and llocano
Leona Florentino
173
Self Reliance
Ralph waldo emenson
174
Zita, The Wound and Scar
Arturo Rotor
175
Juanita Crus, Ang Dalaga sa Tindahan
Magdalena Jalandoni
176
The Creatures of Philippine,
Lower Mythology
Maximo Ramos
177
Dogeaters, Gangsters of Love
Jessica Hagedorn
178
The Virgin, The Hand of the Enemy
Kerima Polotan- Tuvera
179
The Living and the Dead
Gregorio Brillantes
180
What is an Educated Filipino?
Francisco Benitez
181
Lit and Society
Salvador Lopez
182
Women Enough
My Humble Opinion,
• Carmen Guerrero Nakpil
183
Shakuntala
Kalidasa
184
The Necklace
Ball of Fat
Guy de Maupassant
185
Aenid
Pueblos Vergilius maru/virgil
186
divine comedy, paradiso
Dante Alighieri
187
Les Miserables
Victor Hugo
188
The Little Prince
ADD EXUPERY
189
Jungle Book
Rudyard Kipling
190
Animal Farm
George Orwell
191
The Raven
Annabel Lee
EA Poe
192
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achene
193
R&j, merchant of V, hamlet,
Macbeth, "where ignorance is bliss...
Shakespeare
194
Gettysburg address
Abraham Lincoln
195
Dr. Zhivago
Boris Paternak
196
- The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
197
Paradise Lost
John Milton
198
Uncle toms cabin
Harriet Stowe
199
Canterbury tales
Geoffrey chaucer
200
Analects
Confucius
201
Narnia
CS Lewis
202
The Republic
Plato
203
War and Peace, Annakarenina, God sees the truth but waits
Leo Tolstoy
204
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Leqi-Unninni
205
The Ramayana
Valmiki
206
The Mahabharata
Vyasa
207
Oh Liberty, The Subjection of Women
John Stuart Mill
208
The aenid
Virgil
209
Alcestis
Euripides
210
Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
211
Silas Marner
George Eliot
212
Confessions, The Social Contact
John Jacques Rousseau
213
Picture of durian gray
Oscar Wilde
214
the strange case of dr. Jekyll and mr. hyde
Robert L. Stevenson
215
alice adven. In wonderland
Lewis Carol
216
Olympian spring
Carl f.g. Spitteler
217
the old man and the sea
Ernest Hemingway
218
The world is an apple
Alberto Florentino
219
Small key
Paz lotarena
220
ghosts
August Strindberg
221
Aurora leigh
Elizabeth browning
222
the great Gatsby
• F. scott fitzgerald
223
beauty is truth, truth beauty
John keats
224
crime punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
225
midnights children
Washington irving
226
a rose for Emily
William Faulkner
227
The Confessions
St. Augustine
228
The Ancient Mariner
Samuel Coleridge
229
Second Treatise of Government
John Locke
230
Tom Jones
Henry Fielding
231
Ethics, Politics, Poetics
Aristotle
232
The Histories
Herodotus
233
The Prelude
William Wordsworth
234
epic, struggling to reconcile
Divine comedy
235
1st true novel in english
Robinson crusoe
236
Mirrors Filipino disillusionment
America is in the heart -
237
biography of rizal
The great Malayan
238
gnawing sadness
Child of sorrow
239
the love of alfredo for julia; 1st successful filipino modern short story in english
Dead stars
240
...master of my fate...captain of my soul
Invectus
241
fisherman's bravery
the old man and the sea
242
one act play
the world is an apple
243
key;chest; discover old clothes of 1st wife
small key
244
culture goes beyond love
the wedding dance
245
of man's first disobedience....
paradise lost
246
reject by new york pub; "impossible to sell animal stories"
Animal Farm
247
problem/social play
Ghosts
248
-was criticized
Aurora leigh
249
abused girl
Magnificence
250
was written in 14th century
Canterbury tales
251
road less traveled
The road not taken
252
man falsely judge...
God sees the truth but wait
253
rizal's best work
Mi ultimo adios -
254
envy is ignorance imitition is suicide
self-reliance
255
social aspectf.rizal)
Makamisa
256
American civil war
Gown with thenwind
257
all children, except one grow up
Peter pan
258
battle among gods: good and evil
Theomachy
259
Napoleonic invasion of russia
War and peace
260
city of Sumerian;found earliest recording syllables on tablets
Ur
261
location of human vocal chords
Larynx
