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Created by:
David9876543210 on March 23, 2012
Classes:
The Haycock Quest for Freedom, Longfellow Police
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25 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 colloquy | conversation |
| viable | able to live |
| synopsis | summary |
| terra firma | solid ground |
| sanction | authorize |
| Russophobe | one who fears Russia |
| prognosis | medical forecast |
| polychrome | many-colored |
| philanthropy | love of mankind |
| perspicacity | insight |
| mobocracy | mob rule |
| gerontoracy | government of the old |
| magniloquence | great eloquence |
| kleptomaniac | pathological theif |
| joie de vivre | joy of living |
| in loco parentis | in place of parents |
| mundane | worldly |
| synthesis | combination |
| unequivocal | direct |
| hinilism | belief in nothing |
| audiophile | stereo buff |
| entomology | insect zoology |
| omnifarious | of all kinds |
| invidious | causing envy |
| deduction | reasoning down from principles |
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