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Allusion

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Indirect reference to an external object or event

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Archetype

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Perfect example of something

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Ave Maria

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  • Classical composition by Bach

- Catholic Prayer

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Averted

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Turn away from, avoid

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Beaux

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Male suitors (plural of beau)

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Beleaguered

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Lay siege to, to beset with difficulties

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Candelabrum

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Branched candle holder with multiple candles

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Confiscated

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Taken away from (i.e. Confiscate a cell phone)

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Conglomeration

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A collection of things grouped together

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Cotillion

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A social dance

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Daughters of the American Revolution

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Group for women of direct descendants of American Revolutionaries that support the preservation of history, education, etc.

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Deception

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A lie, not felling the truth, tricking someone into believing you

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Decorously

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Politely, properly conducting oneself

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Demure

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Reserved, modest, shy

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Dissaray

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A mess, out of order (i.e. Room in disarray)

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Dismal

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Lacking, minimal (i.e. The rocket had a dismal flight pattern)

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Elegiac

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Having a mournful quality

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Emissary

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Diplomatic representative

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Emulate

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To mimic

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Endowments

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  • Gifts, things bestowed upon someone

- Financial Donation to a non-profit

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Enraptured

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Fascinated, enthralled

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Fiasco

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A ludicrous or humiliating failure

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Flourish

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  • Bold or extravagant movement or action

- To develop or grow and become something great

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Gesticulating

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Use dramatic gestures to emphasize a point

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Guernica
1937 German experimental bombing of Guernica, Spain
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Imminent
Soon coming, fast approaching
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Implacable
Relentless
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Inaudibly
Unable to be heard
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Indolently
Slothful, a disposition to avoid exertion
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Ineluctably
Inescapably
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Inquisition
Prolonged investigation
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Jauntily
Sprightly (in reference to a type of walk)
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Judicious
Showing good judgement or sense
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Luminous
Bright, light filled
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Mastication
Moving of the jaw in a chewing motion
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Matriculating
Enrolling in a college or university
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Menagerie
Collection of wild animals
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Motley
Varied in appearance or character
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Obscuring
Blocking, concealing
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Ominous
Scary, giving the impression that something bad will happen
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Paragon
Someone regarded as the perfect example of something
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Patronage
Support of something
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Perturbation
Anxiety, uneasiness, deviance from a system
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Pinioned
To tie off the arms or legs of
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Poetic License
The Liberty artists take in creating their own work while deviating from the original
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Portier
Gatekeeper
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Pleurosis
Inflammation of the membrane surrounding the lungs
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Precipitated
To cause an undesirable event from happening
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Preoccupation
State of being engrossed in something
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Proscenium
Part of a theater stage in front of a curtain
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Prudent
Showing thought and care for the future
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Victrola
Record player
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Vivacity
Quality of being lively and animated
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Querulous
Complaining in a whining manner
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Rhapsodic
Enthusiastic expression of feeling
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Rite
Religious or solemn ceremony or act
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Ritual
Religious or solemn ceremony consisting of a series of actions done in a prescribed order.
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Satirical
Sarcastic, critical, or mocking
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Spartan Endurance
Tremendous endurance likened to those of Sparta in ancient Rome
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Specter
Viewer
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Staid
Sedate, respectable, unadventurous
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Stupefied
Stunned, shocked, unable to think or feel properly
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Sublimations
Transformations into a solid state
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Subsides
Becomes less intense
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Supercilious
Behaving or looking as if someone is superior to another
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Tribulations
Cause or state of great trouble or suffering, trials
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Translucent
Allowing light to come through, almost transparent
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Tyranny
Cruel and oppressive government or rule
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Unobtrusive
Not conspicuous or attracting attention

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