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Vocabulary List Two Flashcards

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Cupidity

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Noun

greed for money or possessions.

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Denouement

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Noun
the final part of a play, movie, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved

Unraveling of the plot

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Lampoon

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Noun
A speech or text criticizing someone

Verb
Publicly criticized

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Mercurial

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Adj

(of a person) subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind.

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Mnemonic

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Noun
device such as a pattern of letters, ideas, or associations that assists in remembering something

Adj
aiding or designed to aid the memory.

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Narcissism

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Noun

A disorder in which a person has an inflated sense of self-importance.

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Promethean

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Adj

Creative

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Baroque

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Adj
relating to or denoting a style of European architecture, music, and art of the 17th and 18th centuries that followed mannerism and is characterized by ornate detail

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Burlesque

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Noun
an absurd or comically exaggerated imitation of something, especially in a literary or dramatic work; a parody.

Verb
cause to appear absurd by parodying or copying in an exaggerated form.

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Cynosure

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Noun

a person or thing that is the center of attention or

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Draconian

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Adj

excessively harsh and severe

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Ethereal

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Adj

extremely delicate and light in a way that seems too perfect for this world.

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Solon

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Intelligent law giver

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Saturnine

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Adj

slow and gloomy

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Stygian

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Adj

very dark

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Nemesis

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Noun

the inescapable agent of someone’s or something’s downfall

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Saga

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Noun
a long story of heroic achievement

Multiple events in order

18
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Farcical

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Adj

absurd or ridiculous

19
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Bacchanal

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Noun

an occasion of wild and drunken revelry

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