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Literature
11th Grade
08/21/2011

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Lot and his wife
Definition
Lots wife look disobeyed god and looked back and turned into a salt pillar
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Strings and arrows
Definition
Objects used to attack of people that take away
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Typhoid mary
Definition
Place something is most undesirable
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Scylla and Charybdis
Definition
Person or thing stuck between two evils pick your poison
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Salad days
Definition
Days of one youth young
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Panglossian
Definition
Misleadingly optimistic
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Narcissus
Definition
Rejected women was crises to fall in love with his reflection and died by the river
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The prodigal son
Definition
Son waste fathers money drinking return home with open arms brother jealous he get special but son was lost now found
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Donjuan
Definition
Player seducing women for pleasure
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Don quixote
Definition
Preacher read tales to influence for the better
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Dionysian
Definition
Rocker drinks sex drug
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Dine bien phu
Definition
Defended war mistaking one probe in ones ability
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Pillar of fire
Definition
Sign that shows the way
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Catch22
Definition
Problem that has no solution circumstance denied
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Great white hope
Definition
Expecting to success
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Sodom and Gomorrah
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Place destroyed by god cause of dislike
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Montages capuleta
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Opposing sides in long destructive feuds
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Worshipping golden calf
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Aaron made a god out of gold calf and were sin by honoring another god
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Freudian slip
Definition
Everything one expresses reveals an inner feeling
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Pounds of flesh
Definition
Something owedthat is brutally paid back
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Lazarus
Definition
He was ill sent Maria and Martha to Jesus to revive him from death
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Loita
Definition
Young girl seductive through media
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Halcyon days
Definition
Bird nest 14days near ocean calms wave
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Loaves and fish
Definition
Act of multiplication creation out of nothing
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Throw down the gauntlet
Definition
Starts a challenge fight on throws glove the other accepts it by picking it up
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Helen of troy
Definition
This caused a fight over it
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Midas
Definition
He turned everything to gold by touch manage keep huge money out of any scheme attempt
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Damon and pythias
Definition
Strong trust and loyalty two friends save each from death
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Down the rabbit hole
Definition
Going on adventure into unknown or takin drugs
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Ozymandian
Definition
Big ultimately devoid of meaning comment onnature or human
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Carpe diem
Definition
Seize the day life to short
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Achillea heel
Definition
A weakness area on something
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Antediluvian
Definition
Out of date old
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Zion
Definition
Gods promised land heaven
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Adonis
Definition
Metaphor for youthful male with beauty
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Waiting for godot
Definition
Wait for long time no success happen
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Nuremberg defense
Definition
Defending one action same place cuss of orders Nazi
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Ozzie and harriet
Definition
Modern day family 50s
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Malthusian
Definition
Limit on human reproduction
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Philistine
Definition
Indifferent or hostile to arts
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Albatross
Definition
Psycho burden feels curse anxiety
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Hades
Definition
Under world death darkness danger
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David and goliath
Definition
Battle between large and underdog
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Don't shot kill the messenger
Definition
When breaking back new and don't want to be blame for it
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Gordian knot
Definition
Solution not easy to think but a simple step
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Forty acres and mule
Definition
Promised but never fullfilled
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Benedict arnold
Definition
One that betrays a person group traitor
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Lilliputian
Definition
Small miniature
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Broodingnagian
Definition
Marked with tremendous size
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Scrooge
Definition
One hates chritmas and happiness
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Alpha and omega
Definition
Signifies beginning and end
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Nebuchadnezzar
Definition
Creation or recreation of civilization innovated
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Machiavellian
Definition
Marked duplicity bad faith
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Pandora box
Definition
Open box reveals all ones host of evil o knowledge trouble
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Protean
Definition
Great diversity
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Jonah
Definition
One brings back luck jinx him
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Judas
Definition
Who betrays friends lead them danger
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Cloven hoof
Definition
Sign of devilish character
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Mark of Cain
Definition
Stigma distinguishing mark brand of criminal outcast
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