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disciple, a follower who has learned to believe in the doctrine of his teacher.
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“Don’t know life —how know death? ”“未知生焉知死，”—Confucius’s Analect .
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bourgeois, of the class between the gentry and the laborers, a class addicted to comfort and respectability.
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unmetaphysical, not abstract and not related to metaphysics, which is the science of being and the theory of knowledge.
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scale of values, a graded system of measuring relative worth, importance, utility, desirability, etc.
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civic civilization, civilization built up around a city; the civilization that has grown up with the growth of cities.
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letters, literature.
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robust, strong and healthy.
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kaleidoscopic, varied and many-colored. A kaleidoscope is a tube in which figures are produced by reflections of pieces of colored glass and varied by rotation of the tube.
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myriad, vastly numerous.
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vexatious, annoying; distressing; disturbing.
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distortions, twisted or pulled out of shape.
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pacificism, love of peace; advocacy of the abolition of war.
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freakish extreme theories, queer radical ideas, that run to extremes.
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vicissitudes of fortune, irregular changes of luck; uncertainty as to how things may turn out.
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superficial, not going deep; of or on the surface only; of not much true meaning.
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cynial, sneering; incredulous.
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indolent, lazy; slothful.
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saunter, walk in a leisurely way.
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precarious, uncertain; insecure; dependent on circumstances or unknown causes or conditions.
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Himalayas, the mountain system 1,600 miles long between India and Tibet. The highest peak of this system is Mount Everest, 29,002 feet high. Several have been the attempts on the part of alpine climbers to scale to the top of the mountain, but as yet none of these attempts have been successful.
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on the screen, thrown on the screen in a theater.
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insipid, tasteless; uninteresting; dull.
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farce, absurdly futile proceeding, pretense, mockery.
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yesternight’s, last night’s.
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