Test 11
Terms
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- bowlderize
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- def: remove or change parts considered vulgar or immoral
- etm: Thomas Bowlder thought sheakspeare was too "naughty" and would completely change passages and even delete characters to make it able to be read to a family
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- cynical
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- def: doubting the goodness and sincerity of human motives
- etm: Antisthenes and Diogenes doubted the good in everything, hated success
- syn: distrustful, sneering, derisive
- expedite
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- def: speed up; hasten or help the accomplishment of
- etm: To overcome impediments, we strive to expedite matters, expedio in Latin meaning "to release the feet." When the leg-irons were taken off the slaves, they were able to
- herculean
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- def :tremendous in size, strength, difficulty, or effort
- etm: Hercules was the greatest and strongest of the heroes from Greek mythology.
- syn: mighty, powerful, massive, immense, colossal
- impede
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- def: hinder, obstruct, slow down the process of
- etm:The Latin word impedio, coming from im ("in") and pedis ("foot"), meant "to chain the feet." [SLAVES]
- syn: block, delay, retard, thwart
- pandemonium
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- def: uproar — utter confusion or wild
- etm: The seventeenth-century English poet John Milton coined the word "pandemonium" in his epic poem Paradise Lost. named the capital of hell pandemonium, now synomonnous with "all
- pander
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- def: play up to another's desires and weaknesses
- etm: Chaucer wrote poem, "Troilus and Criseyde" about two people manipulated and set up by crisyde's uncle, panderus. Pandarus arranged for the couple to make love in his h
- quixotic
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- def: idealistic but not practical
- etm: Don Quixote of Cervantes was romantica and did impractical feats
- syn: romantic, visionary, fanciful, chimerical
- stigma
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- def: mark of disgrace
- etm: In ancient Greece captured runaway slaves were branded on the forehead with a stigma ("tattoo") to make escape in the future more difficult.
- syn: stain, taint
- stoical
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- def: indifferent to pain and pleasure
- etm: Since he met his students at the poikile stoa ("painted porch"), a place famous for its painting of the Trojan War, his teachings became associated with the Greek word for "porch&qu