7167528888 | Ahab Captain | Most sinful of all kings who ruled. Captain of Pequod. Obsessed with killing Moby Dick. | ![]() | 0 |
7167533434 | Brutus | Joins and then leads the conspiracy to kill Julius Caesar. Noblest Roman. | ![]() | 1 |
7167538551 | Civil Disobedience | A nonviolent, public refusal to obey allegedly unjust laws. Henry David Thoreau | ![]() | 2 |
7167544870 | All Animals are =, but some are more = than others | Orwell's Animal Farm. Hypocrisy of government. Political Satire. | ![]() | 3 |
7167551520 | Falstaff | a fat old roguish man in some of Shakespeare's plays; loved wine and women | ![]() | 4 |
7167554986 | Invictus | "Unconquered." English Poem I am master of my fate captain of my soul | ![]() | 5 |
7167558744 | Samuel Johnson | Dictionary of the English Language (first). Famous Literary Critic. | 6 | |
7167560602 | Shangri-La | lost horizon James Hilton remote paradise, an area whose name and location are kept secret, ideal place | ![]() | 7 |
7167562855 | Uncle Tom's Cabin | !st Novel to sell a million copies. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Won support for anti-slavery and influenced Civil War. | ![]() | 8 |
7167572958 | bona fide | "In good faith." Genuine | ![]() | 9 |
7167573791 | Cross the Rubicon | River Julius Caesar crossed to begin civil war in Rome. go past the point of no return | ![]() | 10 |
7167574506 | C'est La Vie | French. Such is life. What are you going to do? | 11 | |
7167578947 | Carte Blanche | 12 | ||
7167579317 | Coup de Grace | The final blow. | 13 | |
7167580989 | Chutzpah | 14 | ||
7167580990 | Don Juan | 15 | ||
7167582611 | El Dorado | 16 | ||
7167586151 | Fiddle while Rome burns | 17 | ||
7167586152 | Green-Eyed Monster | 18 | ||
7167587305 | Joie de Vivre | 19 | ||
7167588433 | Modus Operandi | 20 | ||
7167588434 | Lunatic Fringe | 21 | ||
7167588591 | Magnum Opus | 22 | ||
7167588592 | Mea Culpa | 23 | ||
7167588790 | Memento Mori | 24 | ||
7167590293 | Modus Operandi | 25 | ||
7167590866 | Noblesse Oblige | 26 | ||
7167591070 | Noveau Riche | 27 | ||
7167591438 | Prima Donna | 28 | ||
7167591890 | Pro Forma | 29 | ||
7167592268 | Semper Fidelis | 30 | ||
7167592349 | Sanctum Sanctorum | 31 | ||
7167592473 | Quid pro Quo | 32 | ||
7167592712 | Raison d'etre | Reason for being, purpose in life | 33 | |
7167593256 | Shalom | Hebrew for hello/goodbye, literally "peace." | 34 | |
7167594501 | Status Quo | The existing order of things. | 35 | |
7167595248 | Terra Firma | 36 | ||
7167596340 | Tete-a-Tete | 37 | ||
7167597312 | Tour De Force | 38 | ||
7167598255 | Wanderlust | 39 | ||
7167599106 | Young Turk | 40 | ||
7167599427 | Zer-Sum Game | 41 |
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