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Cards (15)

Section 1

(15 cards)

refinement

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fineness of taste, feeling, or thought

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exploitation

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the action or fact of treating someone unfairly in order to benefit from their work.

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Indulgence

Front

a pardon releasing a person from punishments due for a sin

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candor

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honesty

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Papists

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Roman Catholic

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philanthropy

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charity; a desire or effort to promote goodness

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genteel

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well-mannered; refined; polite

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prescience

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knowledge of events or actions before they happen; foresight

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misogyny

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hatred of women

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Satire

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A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies.

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diffident

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shy, lacking self-confidence; modest, reserved

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assuage

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(v.) to make easier or milder, relieve; to quiet, calm; to put an end to, appease, satisfy, quench

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Parody

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A work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule.

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gentility

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those of gentle birth; high social class; refinement; quality of being genteel

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varice

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dilated vein like varicose vein

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