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Renaissance Vocabulary Flashcards

1
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Paradigm Shift

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A change in the way one thinks

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Miasma

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Bad air

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Usury

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Lending money at an unfairly high rate

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Erudition/Erudite

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Having a wealth of knowledge

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Eclectic

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Deriving ideas or taste from a diverse range of sources

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Perfidious

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Untrustworthy

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Parsimonious

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Cheap, stingy, frugal

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Pariah

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An outcast given a wide berth

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Fickle, Capricious

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Indecisive, easily swayed

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Motif

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A decorative design or pattern

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Ignominious

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Deserving shame

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Gargantuan

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Enormous

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Utopian

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Idealistic

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Prodigious

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Remarkably great

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Machinations

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Plot or scheme

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Panacea

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A reliable cure for a disease or problem

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Insidious

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Stealthily treacherous or deceitful

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Regent

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A ruler running a country due to a monarch’s incapacitation or age

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Pacifism

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The belief that any violence is wrong

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Affable

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Friendly, good-natured

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Posterity

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Future generations

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Lecherous

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Extreme sexual desire

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Cuckold

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The husband of an adulterous wife

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Unrequited

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Not returned

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Muse

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An object of inspiration

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Hedonist

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A seeker of pleasure

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Temporal

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-Secular
or
-Relating to time

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Paragon

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Someone or something regarded as a perfect example of something

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Subsistence Agriculture

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Making just enough food to survive/Making food just for you and your family

30
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Anti-Semitism

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Hatred or dislike of Jewish people

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Pogroms

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Attacks on Jewish people

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Renaissance

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A rebirth of culture

33
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Balance of Power

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A way of keeping order between nations, where weaker ones align themselves with each other for protection from larger ones

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Oligarchy

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Rule by a select few

35
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Diplomacy

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Nations discussing matters rather than using force to prevent conflict

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