English grammer boards – Flashcards
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French, a fixed idea
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idée fixe
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word adj. aggressive
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truculent
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French for the good of the country
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raison d'état
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latin by itself/ through itself
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per se
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latin the change being turned
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vice versa
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german science/ system of knowledge
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wissenschaft
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Italian new life
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vita nuova
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poet #3 1865-1939 irish poet
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W.B. Yeats
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a play on words
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pun
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to respond too text through subjective/emotional responses
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affective fallacy
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word adj. moderate in eating/ drinking
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abstemious
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word adj. expressing sorrow
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elegiac
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French slaughterhouse
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abbatoir
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French a decisive stroke
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coup de grace
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latin to god or oh god
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te deum
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latin example-or a short narrative used to explain a moral
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ex emplum
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german an intellectual dreamerr
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luftmensch
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Italian listen to this
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senti quista
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poet #2 1902-1971 English poetess
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stevi smith
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a statement seemingly self contradictory but expressing a "truth"
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paradox
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reader/critics should interpret texts based on Marxist theories class warefare the super structures
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Marxist Critism
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word to abolish by formal means
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abrogate
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word adj. equivalent in effect or meaning
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tantamant
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French joy
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jouissance
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French a work of art
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object d'ort
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latin great work
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ars magna
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latin lamb of god
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agnus dei
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german a total work of art
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gesamthünstwerk
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Italian smooth singing style
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bel canto
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poet #4 1861-1941 indian poet
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Tagore
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a verb noun ending in ing
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gerund
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readers/critics should focus on the religion political ideologies present in texts
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New Historism
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word adj. quiet, resting, still
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quiescent
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word (v) to instill a habit or idea by repetition
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inculcate
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French a spy who agitates
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agent provocateur
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French such is life
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c'est la vie
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latin with the living voice
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viva voce
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for the sake of form
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pro forma
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german make a show
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mach schau
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Italian love
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amore
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poet French 1854-1891
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Arthur Rimbaud
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revealing a truth through fiction
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realism
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the study of the history/origin of words
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etymology
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(N) superior mental acuteness a developed ability
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acumen
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adj. blue or azure
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cerulean
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beautiful friend
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bel ami
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French I love you
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je t'aime
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latin behold the man
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ecce homo
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latin for the public good for free
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pro bono publico
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german enlightenment
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aufklarung
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Italian quietly
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sotto voce
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poet #1 divine comedy
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dante
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having the capacity to process two contradictory thoughts
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negative capability
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type, kind, form
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genre
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to retract, renounce under oath
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abjure
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to assume as a fact based on a truth
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posit
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French heedlessness
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insouciance
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French an idler, a loafer
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flanèur
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Latin altogether, on the whole
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in toto
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latin man the maker
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homo faber
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german world literature/ a vision of Goethe's
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weltliterature
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Italian repeat from the beginning
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da capo
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poet #6 English
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Philip larkin
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to denote a poem that has no other purpose but to be- no moral purpose
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autotelic
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a novel in which real persons or actual events figure under disguise/ a novel with a "key"
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roman a clef
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domineering not being affected
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imperious
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to repay a debt
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indemnify
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french a penname / a pseudonym
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nom de plume
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french out of fashion
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démodé
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latin a god from the machine
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deus ex machina
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latin with praise
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cum laude
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german there being/meaning
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da sein
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Italian too much
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in troppo
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poet #7 American poetess
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Sylvia Plath
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the study of similarities in the literature of different peoples
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comparative literature
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to convey meaning different from the professed one
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irony
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greedy grasping
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rapacious
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wicked
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nefarious
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French song
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chanson
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French bad faith
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mauvaise foi
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Latin towards the man/an attack on another's character or idea
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ad hominem
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Latin it does not follow
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non sequitar
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German the spirit of the times
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zeiteist
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Italian you're welcome
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prego
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poet #8 African born- American
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Phillis Wheatly
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the use of a part to stand for a whole
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synecdoche
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having a sense of a truth/realism
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verisimilitude
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dull/insipid
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jejune
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hopeful, confident, cheerful
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sanguine
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French crazy, insane
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french tré fou
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french homemade
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fait maison
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latin without preparation/ extemporaneously
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ex tempore
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latin not present
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in absentia
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german work makes one free
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arbeit mach
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Italian song or singing
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canto
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the record of random and apparently illogical flow of impressions pass through a characters mind
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stream of consciousness
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readers should read texts to analyze the cultural construction of the "center"
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queer theory
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a descending slope
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declivity
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grossly indecent or obscene
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salacious
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French putting in place/ setting up
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mis en place
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French exactly the right word at the right time
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mot juste
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latin dare to know
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aude sapere
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latin the ultimate the highest
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ne plus ultra
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german taking pleasure in another's pain
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schadenfreude
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Italian goodbye beautiful
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ciao bella
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poet # 10 spansih
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Lorca
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a conversation between two (or more) parties founded on inquiry, reason, question and answer
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dialectic
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a department in the English government that controlled printed/published material
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star chamber
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process/practice/action
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praxis
