The first CL DEV and VOC quiz
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| 7371350190 | Tableau (n) | A group of models or motionless figures representing a scene from history | 0 | |
| 7371350191 | Guilds | Organizations of self-imployed artisans in the middle ages that sought to regulate price & quality of products | 1 | |
| 7371350192 | Young Turk | An insurgent person trying to take control of a situation or organization by force or political maneuvering | 2 | |
| 7371350193 | Troubadours | Traveling poet-musicians who flourished in Southern Europe during the 17th century who wrote about chivalry and love | 3 | |
| 7371350194 | Cogito, ergo sum | I think, therefore I am | 4 | |
| 7371350195 | Zeitgeist | The general moral, intellectual, and cultural climate of an era "time spirit" | 5 | |
| 7371350196 | Alchemy | A science that sought to transform base metals to gold (precursor of chemistry) | 6 | |
| 7371350197 | Halcyon Days | Times of peace and tranquility referring to a mythological bird that has the power to calm the waves when it nested by the sea | 7 | |
| 7371350198 | Existentialism | Movement in 20th century literature & philosophy. People are individually acting, free being, & responsible for what they have to make themselves | 8 | |
| 7371350199 | Angst | A kind of fear or anxiety | 9 | |
| 7371350200 | Philosophers stone | The material alchemists believed capable of changing base metals into gold | 10 | |
| 7371350201 | Harlem renaissance | An African American cultural movement of the 1920s-30s in the Harlem area of New York City | 11 | |
| 7371350202 | Milieu | A persons social or cultural environment or setting | 12 | |
| 7371350203 | Abjure | Give up; forswear; denounce | 13 | |
| 7371350204 | Abrogate | To abolish, do away with or annul | 14 | |
| 7371350205 | Abstemious | Marked by restraint especially in the consumption of food or alcohol | 15 | |
| 7371350206 | Acumen | Keenness of skill in making correct decisions and judgement in a particular subject such as business or politics or practical matters | 16 | |
| 7371350207 | Antebellum | A period before war, especially the American civil war | 17 | |
| 7371350208 | Auspicious | Attended by favorable circumstances marked by success; prosperous | 18 | |
| 7371350209 | Bellicose | Warlike manner or temperament | 19 | |
| 7371350210 | Chicanery | The use of tricks to deceive; deception | 20 | |
| 7371350211 | Churlish | Boorish or vulgar; bad disposition | 21 | |
| 7371350212 | Belie | To picture falsely; misinterpretation | 22 | |
| 7371350213 | Circumlocution | Indirect, wordy language. Talking around or evasion of speech or writing | 23 | |
| 7371350214 | Parallelism | Recurring sentence structure to create a pattern | 24 | |
| 7371350215 | Chiasmus | Reverse sentence structure at the end of the sentence | 25 | |
| 7371350216 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration for emphasis | 26 | |
| 7371350217 | Understatement | Purposely downplayed something the reader would expect to be emphasized | 27 | |
| 7371350218 | Litotes | Understatement by negating the opposite of the condition | 28 | |
| 7371350219 | Hypophora | Asking a question then answering | 29 | |
| 7382560847 | Adnosticism | A denial of knowledge about whether there is or is not a GOD | 30 | |
| 7382560848 | circumnavigate (verb) | To proceed around, to avoid, circumvent | 31 | |
| 7382560849 | Antithesis | Making use of contrast in language to bring out contrast in ideas | 32 |
