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| cunning/scheming esp. in advancing one's career in politics. From Niccolo Machiavelli, who wrote the Prince, advocating power of the state at all costs. |
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| one who behaves selfishly/irresponsibly in his sexual relationships. From man named Anselmo coerces Lothario, his faithful friend, to test the virtue of Anselmo's wife, Camila. Though Lothario sincerely attempts dissuading Anselmo from testing his wife's fidelity, the friend insists, and Lothario eventually falls in love with Camila. |
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| lacking energy/strength/courage; feeble and effeminate. From a poem of the same name by Henry Carey who wrote the poem as a satire of Ambrose Philips and published it in his Poems on Several Occasions. |
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| a religious hypocrite, . The main character's name of a play by the same name by Moliere where he pretends to be a pious man but is in fact a vagrant |
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| attack imaginary enemies or evils. From Don Quixote, where Don Quixote attacks a windmill b/c he thinks its a giant |
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| displaying earthly humor, bawdy, From Francois Rabelais major French Renaissance writer, doctor and Renaissance humanist. He has historically been regarded as a writer of fantasy, satire, the grotesque, and bawdy jokes and songs. |
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| a thing that becomes terrifying/destructive to its maker. From the book of the same title by Mary Shelley, where Dr. Frankenstein creates a monster that does just that |
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| a small booklet containing info/arguements about a single subject. From a twelfth-century amatory comic poem with an old flavor, Pamphilus, seu de Amore ("Pamphilus: or, Concerning Love"), written in Latin |
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| person who shows great perceptiveness. From Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, where the main character is an extraordinary detective |
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| a cruel employer who demands excessive work from the employees. The name of the master in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle tom's Cabin |
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| illusory or imaginary and thus disappointing.After Barmecide, a nobleman in the story "Barber's Sixth Brother" from the collection "One Thousand and One Nights" (also known as "The Arabian Nights"). In the story, Barmecide pretends to host a lavish feast for a beggar. |
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| greasily hypocritical. From the Dickens novel Martin Chuzzlewit, where Young Martin decides to sign on as an apprentice to Mr. Pecksniff, a talentless, greedy, pseudo-pious poseur who periodically takes in students to teach them architecture, while actually teaching them nothing, treating them badly, living grandly off their tuition fees, and having them do work that he passes off as his own. |
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| an artificial, highly elaborate way of speaking/writing. From Euphues: The Anatomy of Wyt published in 1578 was a didactic romance written by John Lyly |
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| an eternal optimist. From Wilkins Micawber, character in the novel David Copperfield (1849–50) by Charles Dickens who believes something will turn up |
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| a person who has/claims to have great authority/influence. From Grand Panjandrum, burlesque title of an imaginary personage in some nonsense lines by Samuel Foote in 1754 |
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| an organized massacre of a particular ethnic group |
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| a member of people noted for their horsemanship and military skill |
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| a large area of flat unforested grassland in SE Europe or Siberia |
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| a vast, flat treeless arctic region where the subsoil is permanently frozen |
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| a person appointed by the gov to advise/coordinate policy in a particular area |
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| a highly decorated tea urn |
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| a country house/cottage typically used as a second vacation home |
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| a strict or prescriptive figure of authority |
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| reforming economic and political systems |
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| an official in a large organization, typiclly a political one |
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| the policy or practice of more open consultative government and wider dissemination of information |
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| an elected local, district, or national council in the USSR |
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| a peasant in Russia weathy enough to own a farm or hire labor |
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| a collective farm in the USSR |
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| addenda, an item of additional material |
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| errata, an error in print/writing |
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| a list of items to do or discuss |
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latin and french.
a). bad, badly
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c). abnormal, abnormally |
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a). give birth
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| (noun) the prestige or acclaim that results from some noteworthy achievement or position, singular |
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| in the middle ages, it was the ceremony in which a king or other overlord conferred knighthood upon a deserving subject; now means a simple granting of praise/apporval |
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| (adej) sorely lacking in energy spirit or purpose |
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| (noun) something left to a person in a will; something handed down from the past |
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| the prestige or acclaim that results from some noteworthy achievement or position |
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| accolade (historical context) |
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| the ceremony of knighthood, the kng officially elevates that person by emracing him around the neck and tapping him lightly with the flat of the sword. Ceremony survives in places where knighthood is bestowed as an offical token of thanks for outstanding personal service to the nation |
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| adj. sorely lacking in spirit, energy or purpose |
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| disinclined to work or extertion |
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| noun:something left to a person in a will; something handed down from the past |
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| a valued possession passed down through generations |
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| a burden to bear. This phrase refers to lines from the poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in which the eponymous mariner, who shoots an albatross, is obliged to carry the burden of the bird hung around his neck, as a punishment for and reminder of his ill deed. |
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| a burden someone must carry alone. In the bible Jesus meets one of his disciples who asks to bear the corss for him Jesus refuses |
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| a heavy burden. The literal hanging of a millstone about the neck is mentioned as a punishment in the New Testament (Matthew 18:6), causing the miscreant to be drowned. |
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a). a public statement or picture that damages a person by falsely impugning on his character, motives, or actions or by unjustly exposing the person to public censure or ridicule
b). (verb) to slander publicly |
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| deliberatly conceal mistakes to clear their name |
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| to try and conceal something embarrassing by treating it briefly or representing it misleadingly |
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| hurl criticism/unfavorable remarks at Such pieces of brick have not infrequently been thrown at others in the hope of injuring them; hence, the figurative brickbats (first recorded in 1929) that critics hurl at performances they dislike |
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| a malicious verbal or written attack |
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| someone who spreads real/alleged scandal about another. From Tehodore Roosevelt giving a speech emphasizing the public benefit of muckraking. |
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| noun legal action; a lawsuit |
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| adj. clear and intelligible to the understanding; mentally competent |
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| ill-gotten gains, From New TEstament where Paul mentions that bishops shouldnt be open to bribes |
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| an unconscious and usually ludicrous misuse of a word; from the character Mrs. Malaprop in the play The Rivals |
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| an error in grammar or etiquette |
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| a statement containing an incongruity often unknown to the speaker "When you come to a fork in the road, take it" |
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| a verbal error in which the initial sounds/letters of two words are transposed "you hissed the mystery lecture" |
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| (noun) a desire to cause harm or suffering; deep-seated ill-will |
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a). an extinct form of elephant; a giant or colossus
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| very small in size/outlook |
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| an enormous capacity for food +pleasure; from Rabelais Gargantua, who also had a large appetite |
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| adj. required. obligatory |
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| an order from a superior court to an inferior court |
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| the authorization the voters have given to public officials by electing them |
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| mandate (League of Nations) |
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| a colonial territory that had been taken from one of the defeated belligerents and assigned to the administrative control of one of the victors |
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| required by ettiquette or current fashion |
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| noun the means by which some goal is achieved or the person through whom it is realized |
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| someone who can communicate with the dead |
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| media, takes a plural verb |
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| variant of the Latin word Colosseum the name of a huge sports stadium that Flavian emperors built in Rome |
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| giant statue i.e. colossus of rhodes |
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| anything of great size or impressiveness |
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| verb- to sneak, to lie hidden or in wait |
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