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Perfidy

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Treacherousness, faithlessness. In war, raising the white flag to deceive and breaking truces.

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Palimpsest

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A manuscript that has been written on more than once; reused paper

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Anschaulichkeit

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Visualization through pictures or mechanical models

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Anschauung

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Intuition gained from pictures or past visualization

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Thema

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Thesis

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Corpuscular

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Pertaining to small particles.

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Corpuscles

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Small particles.

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Inchoate

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In beginning stages; imperfectly formed; undeveloped

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Phantasmagoria

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A fantastic sequence of loosely associated events or scenes. Feverish association as if a dream.

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prägnanz

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The law of simplicity; the brain’s tendency to simplify complex shapes into intuitive components. Freud.

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Perfunctory

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Done routinely and with little care.

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Cathexis

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Nexus of emotional investment.

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Opprobium

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Something that brings disgrace

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Polemic

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A deliberately controversial argument; a tactic used to deliberately undermine the opponent.

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Abrogate

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To abolish by decree or official act

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Concomitant

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Contemporary; attendant

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Fifth column

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A clandestine subversive organization working within a country to further an invading enemy’s military and political aims.

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la mission civilisatrice

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The rationale for imperialism describing a policy of ‘education’ or ‘Westernization’ towards natives.

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Vivication

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Level of vitality; awakeness

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Opprobium

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Disgrace from shameful conduct.

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Quisling

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A traitor

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Kissingen Dictation

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Otto von Bismarck’s dictation asserting fear of secret coalitions and the goal to form alliances with adjacent European powers.

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ff.

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A notation used in older books. A citation from the book itself.

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Civis Romanus sum

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“I am a Roman citizen”. A quote from Cicero calling for special Roman rights.

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Parataxis
A pitched battle.
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Desultory
Moving from one thing to another, disconnected, sporadic and random.
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Katalepsis
Possession; the moment when terror takes over the mind
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Arosis
Harrowing; a flurry of insults designed to harangue
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Andreia
Manly valor
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Krypteia
Secret society sp. Spartan.
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ius ad bellum
Justification for war
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Casus foederis
Reason for alliance
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Abjure
To repudiate
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Belles lettres
“Beautiful words”- writing that is an end to itself.
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Nonperiel
Unrivaled
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Jouissance
The painful result of transgressing pleasure regulation. Lacan.
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Objet petit a
The unattainable object of desire. Lacan
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Phreatic
Relating to or denoting underground water beyond saturation (under the water table)
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Stalagmite
Floor of cave
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Sine qua non
Absolutely indispensable.
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Madrassah
A Muslim school for kids in Bangladesh and Pakistan
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Exigency
An urgent need
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Meliorism
The belief that progress can be tangible and that humans may contradict ‘the law of the animals’.
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Gnosis
Knowledge
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Ataraxia
Absence of fear
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Epicureanism
A movement dictating that there is no higher power and that one’s best aims is to live in a state of modest pleasure.
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Peremptory
(Of a person’s mannerisms) Brisk, brusque, demanding immediate attention.
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Ebullient
Enthusiastic and full of energy
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Amphibology
An ambiguous statement
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Holon
A subassembly that is in of itself complete.
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Latifunda
A large landed estate.
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Seignurial
Manorial
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Querie
Rural uprising
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Millenerialism
The belief that there is a coming fundamental change to society.
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Strident
Creaking, harsh, grating
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Truculent
Defiant; quick to fight
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Nominative (declension)
The subject of the sentence- that which is doing the action
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Vocative (declension)
A subject being addressed - direct address
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Accusative (declension)
The subject of the action. In English, we have me/him/her/us
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Genitive (declension)
A noun modifying another noun indicating attributional transfer (his/hers, King’s Road)
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Dative (declension)
Indicating the beneficiary of an action (Marcus got Jennifer a drink)
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Ablative (declension)
Indicating motion away from something
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Locative (declension)
Indicates location of something.
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Voluble
Speaking fluently, easily, without stopping.
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Fatuous
Silly; pointless
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Placket
An opening or slit in a garment
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Prurient
Having or encouraging obsessive tendencies about having sex
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Jejune
Naive, superfluous, and simplistic
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Oleagnous
Having properties of oil
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emollient
Soft and smooth
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Gelid
Icy; fridgid
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Redolent
Suggestive of or reminiscent of, fragrant and sweet smelling
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Urbane
Polite, elegant
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Bolide
Usually a very bright meteor, but refers to any exploding body as bright as the moon.
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Saturnine
Slow and gloomy
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Pullutate
To sprout, germinate, or freely reproduce.
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Semipiternal
Eternal
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Ostler
Someone who takes care of mules, horses, or trains
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Theopneustia
Breath of god
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Marmoreal
Like marble
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Telluric
Of the earth
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Libertine
Someone who deliberately spurns social mores, especially in the sense of responsibility or sexual restraint. Hedonism as a philosophy.
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Lothario
An unscrupulous seducer of women.
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Misprision
Improper performance of official duty; concealment of felony by a third party; seditious conduct
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Moribund
Approaching death
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Catachresis
The misapplication of a word or phrase, as the use of blatant to mean flagrant; the use of a strained figure of speech.
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Esurient
Hungry, ravenous, eager
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Esurine
Causing hunger, eating or corroding
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Salutary
Beneficial to health, wholesome
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Missal
Liturgical book for the celebration of mass
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Abeyance
The state of being temporarily set aside or in suspension.
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Oneiric
Relating to dreams
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Propitation
The act of gaining or regaining goodwill
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facile
Easy; do-able
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Inimical
Cold, antagonistic, acting like an enemy
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Garret
Attic or watchtower, usually with steepled roof
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Efface
To wipe out, erase, or render onesself invisible.
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Emic and etic
Insider’s and outsider’s perspective, respectfully, used as archaeocultural study. For instance, cultural meanings vs cultural behaviors.
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Extradiegetic
The part of a story that is outside the story (e.g. narrator)
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Diegetic
Level of a story that has characters, plot, and action.
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Metadiegetic
The ‘meta’ part of a story, a tale in a tale.
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Paratext
Text around “the text” in the form of author’s notes, translation remarks, and marginalia.
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Deneument
The final act of a play when the plot becomes realized, the outcome
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Autocthon
Something that has not moved from where it was made; aboriginal
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Endonym
A native name for a group of people. Also known as autonym.
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Exonym
A non-native name for a group of people. Also known as xenonym.
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Epigram
A short, concise idea expressing a single statement.
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Teleology
Explanation of phenomena by the purposes they serve rather than their causes
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Indigence
A state of extreme poverty
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Epicure
Someone of refined taste; used to sensuous living.
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Facile
Easy; superficial
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Atavist
Relating to or characterized by an appeal to the ancients
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euhemerize
When a historical figure is turned into a mythological figure
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Anthropoathism
The attribution of human emotions to a god
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Enthymeme
An argument where one’s point is not explicitly stated
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Syllogism
A rhetorical statement of the structure A->B, B->C, therefore A->C.
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Confute
To decisively refute.

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